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Glasgow's
east-end, Calton
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St.Luke's & St Andrew's - Church of Scotland,
Bain Square |
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Old photograph of
St.Lukes,
Church of Scotland
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I spent many happy hours in this church with the 219th BB
it was known as Calton New Parish Church and
the Rev.Bill Crombie was the minister. The church also looked very different in my era, it had no bell tower and a new church hall had been built, the swingpark
was still there though!
Between the swingpark and the church was a street...
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Frontage of church
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St Luke's & St
Andrew's (Church of Scotland) Bain Square, Calton:
Sunday Worship at 11.00am
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This photograph will help you compare old and new
photographs.
The bell tower has gone and a new roof and frontage was added. New
church hall
The swing park was replaced with a pedestrian landscaped area
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May 2005
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Dec.2007 landscaping all gone .....
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 Rev.Leith
Fisher sadly passed away on 13th March 2009...
..ah first met Leith when he wis
a minister at Calton New Parish church in Bain Square.
This church wis great furr meeting and getting tae
know young ministers as it ran the Calton Youth Club and the
Rev.Bill Crombie took on
a posse of young ministers who
worked at the youth club, Rev Leith Fisher, Rev David Lunan, Rev.
Robin McHaffie, Rev.Howard Hudson,
Rev.Douglas Wallace to name
but a few!
We formed a fitba team called Calton Amateurs an' we
joined the Scottish Amateur League, division ten if ah remember
rightly. ... Leith gote us
the youth club bus which we used each Seturday
tae get tae the fitba matches. The
bus wis driven by Jimmy Robertson brother of Rev.Campbell Robertson
from Iona Community House in Clyde Street, Glesca..
We gave it oor all but we wurr the
wurst team in the league and
gote gubbed every week 8, 9
and 10 - nothing! Honest! Leith
is the only minister I hiv played
fitba wi' who gote sent
aff - red carded by the ref furr
dissent!
Ah wis a
BB officer in they days an' the
ministers aw gote turns
tae take services,
Leith's church services wurr always
very good. A very likeable, approachable man, doon
tae earth an' well liked by
everyone, we hid many a
great terr oan
that mini-bus, Leith sitting at the front wi his feet up smoking his
pipe hivving a laugh wi' the guys.
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Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
2008 to 2009:
The Right Rev David Lunan |
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