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Down Oatlands way

June 8th, 2007

The streets of my early years Oatlands provided the younger inhabitants with many ways of exercising the imagination.
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More Oatlands memories

June 8th, 2007

Mary Hamilton – born Mary Douglas in Oatlands 78 years ago – was reminded of happy days in the area when she read last month’s LOCAL NEWS  which gave Colin Mackie’s memories of Oatlands long ago.
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Diary dates

June 8th, 2007

Here are some useful dates for your diary in June:  

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Our environment

March 5th, 2007

The regular column from Greater Govan Enviroment Trust’s Environment Officer Ken Bussey.

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Down Oatlands Way - alphabetically up the close

March 5th, 2007

Thinking of earlier days in Oatlands I remember some of the strengths that made the area such a great place to be brought up in.
Indeed, the word “community” had real meaning because the lives of all the different families were linked into one another.
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Lemmon at his very best

February 8th, 2007

While our music writer Loretta Galloway copes with a career change (good luck in the new job Loretta! and thank you for all your hard work on the music column) we have reeled in film fan Alasdair Kearney to give us the update on films new and old.
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Down Oatlands way

February 8th, 2007

Over the past six years I have shared fascinating tales I’ve ‘dug up’ from within the Southern Necropolis which I haunted as a boy.
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Our environment

January 11th, 2007

Welcome to a new environment column from the Greater Govan Environment Trust and its Environment Officer and Secretary – Ken Bussey.
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Portrait of a cobbler

January 11th, 2007

From the vast lairs within the Southern Necropolis, there is one particular section that I tend, least, to favour when searching – the Western Section (opened in 1850).
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The cutting edge to scissors

November 30th, 2006

LIVE WITH LORETTA

November was a huge month for gigs in Glasgow. George Michael, Pink and the Scissor Sisters all played to sell-out crowds.
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