Peter Dornan
from Glasgow.
Posted 7 Jan 2003.
We were watching the hogmanay special on Â鶹Éç1 at 6.30pm last week when we both got the shock of our lives. Towards the end of the programme we saw archive footage of a Glasgow family celebrating the bells in the old traditional fashion, where everyone was singing along to a man playing a guitar. The man with the guitar is my father-in-law who passed away 5 years ago and his wife who I never met is also in the same clip, she passed away 5 years before I met my wife. We were told a few years ago that cameras were at their house in old Rutherglen Road for a Panorama special about typical Glasgow hogmanay celebrations. We think the year was either 1959-60 or 1960-61. My father-in-laws name was Alex Fraser and his wifes name was Chrissie. The Panorama special was never shown so you can imagine our excitement when we discovered the footage was still around.
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A Watson
from J Wheatley College.
Posted 15 Jan 2003.
I also saw the clip and was very excited by it, as i remember those days well and don't feel that hogmanay is the same, there is very little good will to all men in this world now.
