Tommy Mac's Glasgow Stories

Our Concrete Football Park

There were two air raid shelters built in our street in Glasgow, exactly 100 yards apart from each other -...

VE Day in Glasgow

The tram cars in Hope Street were filled with servicemen of all nationalities - American, Canadian,...

A Close Escape at the Pictures

So my mother decided that in future we would remain in the hall and see the film through. At this, my...

The Dummy Football Match

At the same time we believed the Germans were to launch a bombing raid on Clydeside. All the Germans did...

The Brown Bomber: Meeting Joe Louis

He is the Heavyweight Champion of the World, that is the great Joe Louis himself, the Brown Bomber. I have...

City Boys on the Farm

While I was an evacuee, one morning Mrs Campbell sent my cousin Tommy and I to the next farm with a sort...

A Broken Family: The Day I was Evacuated from Glasgow to Logerate

My dad and my uncle Tommy were brothers, and my mum and my aunty Mary were sisters... The other Tommy was...

Four Houses at One Address

Then my mother was allocated the house next to my aunt's, and she moved in there with my then two young...

My Auntie's Disappearance

My mother's youngest sister Rose, my Auntie Rosie, was just a few years older than me. Even at my...

Baffling Walls in Glasgow

People walked into them, especially after they'd had a few drinks, and children ran out of the close...

Sex Education Classes

I lived in a tenement building in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow. -- Read all Tommy Mac's edited...

Silver Collection for Sunday Movies

At that time it was against the law for a cinema to open for profit on a Sunday, so a well-known Glasgow...

The Clydebank Blitz

We could even see a glow in the sky to the west of Glasgow, where we knew the shipbuilding industry was...