#govanhill

[househuntingscotland]

1 bedroom flat for sale on Inglefield Street, Govanhill, Glasgow

Asking price: £85,000

#2/1 95 Inglefield St #G42 7PP #Glasgow #1 bedroom #flat #southside #govanhill #govanhill park #plants

[marionsinspirations]

#me #selfie #goodbye glasgow #wet hair #Govanhill

[pauho]

<strong>Govanhill <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pauho/">by Paul</a></strong>

#glasgow #govanhill #flickr

[romanationmovement]

#Roma #Scotland #RomaMigrants #Czech #Govanhill

[hyperions-fate]

Scotland's overdue an Ossian revival.

#if it's good enough for Goethe it's good enough for Govanhill

[anarchotolkienist]

Hey I helped edit this collection so I can confirm that it's really good! I don't know how many of you encountered the author's debut novel Gods of Frequency, a very good nouvelle du clef written in Scots about the Scottish folk scene, but this continues in a similar vein, discussing class, diaspora, gentrification and myth-making as well as majority/minority making, and it does so in English, Scots, Gaelic, and French poetry. As I said, I've read the full collection and can strongly recommend it (well, I can't judge the French-language material, but the rest is good).

It's published with some weird sort of half-funding scheme where if the author gets X amount from the publisher and then Y amount from the crowdfunder, ScotGovs grant for Gaelic publishing will kick in and fund the rest, so if they get over the last hurdle it makes a big difference. Would strongly appreciate it if you're interested in this sort of thing.

[dog-house-riley]

#glasgow #melting pot

[scotianostra]

On December 30th 1969 two police officers died of bullet wounds during a raid on a house in Allison Street, Glasgow; a third was wounded.

Police in Glasgow still remember the murder of two officers, when one of their ex colleagues was spotted with a suspicious package after robbing a bank in Linwood. The horrifying case was led by an ex police officer, who was in jail until 2002.

Shortly after 4pm two officers were shot dead by a man seen acting suspiciously outside a flat in Govanhill on the south side of the city. Their suspect had just taken part in an armed robbery and was carrying the proceeds into the Allison Street tenement in suitcases.

When the two cops followed their man into the ground floor apartment, unaware of the earlier hold-up, he pulled out a gun and shot them dead. The double murder was all the more shocking because it was carried out by a former police officer and colleagu

A few hours later Howard Wilson, married with a young family, was sitting in his police cell in nearby Craigie Street Police Office confessing both murders to his bewildered lawyer Joe Beltrami.

Nineteen years later in his memoir Tales of the Suspected, Beltrami wrote: “As I listened to him. I kept asking myself what could have possessed him.

“He looked more like a businessman than a criminal.”

Wilson had quit the City of Glasgow police in 1968 after 10 years’ service when he failed to get promotion to sergeant.

Instead he opened a greengrocers, The Orchard in nearby Mount Florida. But the outlet, along with another shop he’d bought, was losing money.

His two best friends former prison officer Ian Donaldson, 31, and ex-cop John Sim, 21, both had young families and were also strapped for cash. During one late evening drinking session they joked about robbing a bank to solve all their financial worries. However, the morning after the night before it began to sound like a plan.

Who would suspect two former cops and a prison officer? They had no criminal records and their fingerprints were not on file. The money would also be used to pay off debts so it would disappear as quickly as it had been stolen.

Thus the pieces of a jigsaw were put in place that would result in a cold blooded double execution almost six months later.

The trio recruited a fourth man – Archibald McGeachie – to be their getaway driver, and bought a Russian pistol from the president of the Bearsden Shooting Club, of which all three were members. On July 16, dressed in smart suits and carrying briefcases they walked into the British Linen Bank in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, and escaped with £20,876 (£270,000 now).

All three, however, were broke again by Christmas and, having got away with it once, planned another heist – this time a branch of the Clydesdale in Linwood, Renfrewshire on December 30.

However, McGeachie took cold feet and declined the job of getaway driver, leaving his three pals to do the job on their own.

On December 23, a week before, the second hold up, he disappeared from his home and was never been seen again.

His fellow robbers escaped this time with £14,000 – much of it in silver coins – which later proved significant when they were all spotted by a suspicious Inspector Andrew Hyslop transporting the suitcases. He recognised Wilson who he had once trained in the use of firearms.

Inspector Hyslop also suspected the trio were carrying stolen whisky, as he didn’t know about the bank robbery. He confronted all three in Wilson’s ground floor flat, having called in reinforcements from Craigie Street.

When the inspector bent down to open one of the cases, his former colleague shot him in the face. Detective Constable Angus MacKenzie and PC Edward Barnett, were then both shot in the head when they tried to arrest him.

As they fell, Wilson calmly stepped up to DC MacKenzie and shot him again, killing him outright.

His accomplice Donaldson had fled the flat, while Sim watched in horror. Wilson turned his attention to another former colleague PC John Sellars, who had taken refuge in the bathroom to radio for help but he couldn’t get through the door. Wilson then noticed Inspector Hyslop beginning to move on the floor, and went to finish him off.

A fifth officer, Detective Constable John Campbell flung himself across the hall at Wilson before he could fire again, saving his colleagues’ life.

DC Campbell managed to wrestle the gun from Wilson just as his fellow officers alerted by the sound of gunfire rushed into the flat.

There they found a scene of unimaginable horror. DC MacKenzie had been killed outright while PC Barnett would die five days later in hospital.

Wilson only seemed to regret only what he had done to DC MacKenzie, whose wife June he knew personally. As he was led away, he asked the arresting officers if they would apologise to her on his behalf.

When the three appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on February 6, 1970, Wilson admitted the murders of Detective Constable McKenzie and Constable Barnett, attempting to murder Inspector Hyslop, threatening to shoot Constable Sellars, and to the bank robberies at Giffnock and Linwood. A week later, at the High Court in Edinburgh, Wilson was sentenced to life, with a recommendation that he should serve a minimum of 25 years. Donaldson and Sim were given 12 years each for their parts in the robberies.

Later that year it was announced that the Queen had approved awards of the George Medal to Inspector Hyslop and Detective Constable Campbell. Awards of the Queen’s Police Medal for Gallantry were posthumously awarded to Detective Constable McKenzie and Constable Barnett. In 1971, PC Sellars was awarded the Glasgow Corporation medal for bravery by the Lord Provost.

Detective Constable McKenzie left a widow, June, and Constable Barnett a widow, Margaret, and two children.

Of the three officers who survived, Inspector Hyslop suffered most as bullet parts had been left deeply embedded in his neck. After many months on sick leave Inspector Hyslop returned to duty. But the shock of his terrible experience had left him unfit to carry on and in June, 1971, he had to resign from the force and died on the island of Islay in 2000, aged 74.

In December 2009, on the 40th anniversary of the murders, Alastair organised a memorial service at Linn Crematorium in Castlemilk where the two officers are buried side by side, attended by their widows.

In September 2002, Wilson was finally freed after almost 33 years behind bars despite strenuous objections from the Scottish Police Federation.

At the time its chairman Norman Flowers, said: “We feel that anyone who murders a police officer should never be released. Life should mean life.”

More facts about this brutal crime can be found here http://www.policemuseum.org.uk/the-allison-street-police.../

#scotland #scottish #history #Police murder #Glasgow #No Mean city

[radgepacket]

annoying people stop opening heckin queer cafes/"diy spaces" in govanhill when you can't afford to pay your staff challenge (impossible)

[thecrimecrypt]

Crimes That Shook Britain (Glasgow)

Peter Manuel In 1946, aged just 16, Peter Manuel was jailed for a string of sexual attacks. After his release in the mid-1950s, he became the country's worst serial killer. In January 1956, he stalked Anne Kneilands, 17, at an East Kilbridge golf course, raping and bludgeoning her to death.

That September, he shot Marion Watt, 45, and her daughter Vivienne, 17, as well as Marion's sister Margaret Brown, 41, in their Glasgow home. And Manuel's killing spree continued. In December 1957, Manuel shot taxi driver Sydney Dunn, 36 - and, later that month, Isabelle Cooke, 17, was raped, strangled and buried in a Lanarkshire field.

On New Year's Day 1958, Peter Smart, 45, his wife Doris, 42, and son Michael, 10, were shot in their beds. Manuel was finally caught after being arrested for using stolen money. At Glasgow High Court, Peter Manuel was convicted of eight murders. A coroner later found him guilty of the ninth.

In July 1958, after a last meal of fish and chips, he was hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie.

Colin Norris Glaswegian-born nurse Colin Norris once boasted to colleagues, 'someone always died' on his night shifts. And when Ethel Hall, 86 - admitted with a broken hip - was found unconscious and later died, a suspicious specialist ordered blood tests. She'd been given a massive insulin overdose.

Norris was convicted and sentenced to life for the murder of Ethel Hall, 86, Doris Ludlam, 80, Bridget Bourke, 88, and Irene Crookes, 79, and attempted murder of Vera Wilby, 90.

Norris, 32, had given them lethal doses of insulin at the two Leeds hospitals where he'd worked in 2002.

Murder of Emma Caldwell In May 2005 , Emma Caldwell, 27, was found dead in isolated woods near Biggar. The young woman, a Glasgow prostitute and heroin addict, had last been seen alive in the Govanhill area of Glasgow that April.

Emma's was one of a number of unsolved murders involving sex workers, and sparked a major police operation. Regular clients were interviewed by the Strathclyde force, no arrests were made. Two years after Emma's murder, police charged four Turkish men following a £4m covert operation.

The case later collapsed when evidence was brought into question - and the murder trail ran cold. The case remains open, yet unsolved.

Murder of Angelika Kluk In September 2006, the body of Angelika Kluk, 23, was found under the floor of a Glasgow church. She'd been beaten, raped and stabbed to death. Last to see her alive was church handyman Patrick McLaughlin. DNA on the Polish student's body matched that of Peter Tobin, jailed for rape in 1994 and released in 2004.

The sex offender, who'd been using the alias of Patrick McLaughlin, was arrested. At the High Court in Edinburgh in May 2007, Peter Tobin, 60, was convicted of murder and jailed for life. The case also led to his conviction for the murders of Vicky Hamilton, 16, and Dinah McNicol, 18.

Some speculate that Tobin may also be 'Bible John'.

House of Blood Murders A triple murder at a Glasgow flat in 2004 began with a boozy row between David Gillespie, 42, and Edith McAlinden, 37. After, David and pals Ian Mitchell, 67, and Tony Coyle, 71, lay dead, the walls dripping blood.

McAlinden, her son John, 17, and his mate, Jamie Gray, 16, each pleaded guilty to one count of murder. The teens got 12 years each, McAlinden a minimum of 13.

Bible John Bible John is the nickname given to a serial killer who raped and murdered three woman after meeting them at a Glasgow ballroom between 1968 and 1969.

The killings began in February 1968, when Patricia Docker, 25, was found in a back street battered and strangled with her own stockings. In August 1969, Jemima McDonald, 32, was found dead in a derelict building. And, two months later, Helen Puttock, 29, was strangled with her stockings.

All three had spent the previous evening at Barrowlands Ballroom. Helen's sister Jeannie Williams said that Helen had danced with a man named 'John', before sharing a taxi home, during which 'John' had quoted from the Bible.

However, despite a huge murder hunt, the investigation went cold. Some crime experts believe the known movements and methods of killer Peter Tobin suggest he could be Bible John. Yet, it has never been proved and the case remains unsolved.

Murder of Kriss Donald In March 2004, Kriss Donald was found dead beside the Clyde. The 15-year-old had been abducted and taken on a terrifying 200-mile drive, before being stabbed, doused in petrol and burned to death.

It seems gang members had killed him in revenge for an incident at a Glasgow club - not connected to Kriss - and he'd been singled out because he was white. Imran Shahid, 29, his brother Zeeshan, 28, and Mohammed Mushtaq, 27, were jailed for life for his murder.

#crimes that shook britain #glasgow #bible john #colin norris #peter manuel #serial killers #murder #truecrime #tc community #tcc family #serialkillers #true crime junkie #england #the crime crypt

[househuntingscotland]

2 bedroom flat for sale on Victoria Road, Govanhill, Glasgow

Asking price: £199,995

#1/1 419 Victoria Rd #Govanhill #G42 8RW #Glasgow #2 bedroom #flat #for sale #interior #tenement

[amandaroche1-blog]

Back in Govanhill again, we are gonna do some Shopping/Errands BEFORE going to Dinner at Steak Inn on Victoria Road. 💖💞 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGDn5goZ3o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava The Community Newsroom launches ‘Open House’ series with event on Glasgow’s housing emergency

As part of a new series of events in The Community Newsroom, Greater Govanhill and The Ferret are asking folk to share their thoughts on Glasgow’s housing emergency. Do you have a story to share? Or thoughts on what the media should be covering? Come along on the 23rd Feb…

[chadagainstgod]

5.12.23

back in october, i had messaged my mate who had a degree in graphic design to help me out with my book. we met up in a cafe down in govanhill for a couple of hours. he had shown me the ins and outs of indesign and explained how to work it.

[pollywilliams]

Recent Photography

I've wanted to get back into film photography for a little while, the last time I was regularly using my Olympus OM1 was around the first lockdown, and even then I was only taking random photos when I remembered I even had the camera.

But after seeing some really interesting photos for the Landscape Photographer of The Year Award I found my interest piqued again.

I've wanted to do a series of 'street photography' photos reminiscent of Simon Murphy's critically acclaimed 'Portraits of Govanhill' for a little while now.

Yes, I am well aware photos aren't going to be anywhere near the level of Murphy's, but its the sort of vibe I'm going for.

All that said when I finally got out and about with my camera in Edinburgh I realised I hadn't shot with film in well over a year, and in all honesty I had sort of forgotten how to use the camera (I had to consult a YouTube video to load the film correctly). I also realised that it takes some amount of guts to just start taking photos of people you see on the street!

There were a few really good shots I missed simply because I was too shy to actually take the picture, I'm sure this is something that will improve with time.

Let me be clear though, I'm not going for a Bruce Gilden-esque "I'm going to take your picture whether you like it or not" type of thing here, I just want to capture some interesting, natural images, typical of what you might see day to day in Edinburgh.

In this first lot of images you can sort of see my shyness in regard to taking pictures, most of them do not include any visible people (despite me saying that's what I was going to photograph..) Many of them are also much too dark, slightly out of focus or squinty. Showing my lack of recent experience using film. They are all in black and white as that is the only film I had at the time, and I actually quite like shooting B&W.

Without further ado, here are the images.

Angus at his computer.

I pretty much always start with Angus as a test shot, he is very patient. This one could have been a lot better, I'm not sure why it has come out so out of focus? Will have to do some more tests to see if I can remedy this in my next roll.

Tolbooth Kirk seen from the top of Victoria St.

I was really happy with the way this one turned out, the silhouette of the church tower is really clear and I really like the lighting on the scaffolding on the right, I think the lighting from the building on the left is a bit bright, I suppose this could always be edited out but for now I'm happy with it as is. The only other thing I wish is that the group of people at the bottom were more in focus, on my other shot below they are more in focus but the church tower is cut off, cant have your cake and eat it I suppose.

Tolbooth Kirk seen from the top of Victoria St. Version 2

More focus on the people, but no church and there is just way too much of the road in the frame for my liking. Got rid of those super bright lights though.

The Meadows - Treelined Path

I like this one, but its not really doing anything that hasn't been done a thousand times on people's Instagram Stories. I think the focus on the people and the building in the background is nice, admittedly this probably would have been a much nicer photo is it was in colour.

Scottish Widows Building - Morrison St.

I was super pleased with this one, I had spent some time waiting for someone to walk across and get in the shot. I really like all the different light and reflections in the glass. I do think I could've waited a few seconds more for the person to be right in the centre. I also think I need to be more aware of how I'm holding the camera. In a few of these shots its a little bit slanted, not by much, but it does make a big difference to the framing.

Doctors Pub - Forrest Rd.

Thomas J Walls Coffee - Forest Rd.

These two unfortunately suffer from the same problems as most of the shots I got off this roll, they could have been really interesting compositions but they're much too dark. There are parts of these two that I do really like, the way the chandelier light looks in Doctors, and the reflections off all the bottles behind the bar.

I really like the way the light as reflected the gold letters in the coffee shop, they could be really great. Just needs a bit more work.

As ive previously said I am really out of practise with my camera so its things like shooting when its just too dark that Ill eventually learn not to do (hopefully).

Looking Down George IV Bridge.

Edinburgh University Main Library

This one is definitely more what I'm trying to go for, a glimpse into peoples lives.

McEwan Hall - Bristo Square

Piper considers Bibimbap - 96 Hanover St

I took this from the top of a double decker bus, I was pleasantly surprised it came out this well, I thought there was going to be a lot more reflection from the bus window. Again you can see in this one the angle is a little squint. Hold the camera straight dammit!

Telfer Subway - Dalry

Bathroom Door

I wasn't expecting these two to come out as spooky as they have, but I enjoy it! The subway is barely ever empty like this, I had actually hoped to get some people walking through this shot, but just happened to snap it at the exact second when no-one was there. Weird.

The Bathroom Door was just a test to see how the lighting would come out, but I actually really like the abstractness of it. You can also see how badly hung our bathroom door is, very squint, and for once its not my fault!

The Meadows

Bus 30 to Clovenstone

Another on I feel like could've been really good, just needs more fine tuning

Scottish Portrait Museum

I have a lot more photos from this roll but most of them are just too dark to discern any real details, I'm going to take some of the lessons I've learned from this lot and try and apply them to my next round of photos, I'll update on here when I've got them developed.

I'm definitely going to try and get more shots of actual people and I'm hoping to maybe do some portraits, I guess we will wait and see!

I had all of these photos developed at Gulabi in Glasgow so shout out to them!

[movingspaceart]