[BITList] BIT List Scotland's Forest

[David Harvey]

Thanks Hugh, enjoyed reading those postings,

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "HUGH" <chakdara at btinternet.com>
To: <bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [BITList] BIT List Scotland's Forest


> Mike,
>
> Birkmyres got around. The family came from very little in one generation 
> to
> being big shots around Port Glasgow and district. They, and the 
> shipbuilders
> who had come up the same way from very little, intermarried a lot and 
> built
> big houses on the slopes above the town.  A couple are still standing.  In
> the late 80s the founder of the Lithgow shipbuilding fortune, a young
> draughtsman, and my great grandfather, a foreman riveter, lived up 
> tenement
> closes on the same short street in the middle of town.  Lithgow prospered,
> while George celebrated too unwisely one New Year and fell into the Mid
> Harbour, which wasn't why the McIntyres didn't become rich. And on closes,
> Henry Murray, shipbuilder employing over 200 men, at one point lived up a
> close in a very ordinary tenement here, with no servants and possibly no
> inside toilet.  Sure enough, later on he moved to a big house recently
> vacated, but he spent a long time in the other place.  It was an odd 
> place,
> Port Glasgow, in those days.
>
> Hugh.
>
>
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