Gorbals Wedding 1961
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- Short and very rare 4 minute video of Gorbals Wedding in the spring of 1961. The original was shot on a 16 mm colour camera by my cousin Mary Greene to send to my sister Maureen in Canada. It was many years before it resurfaced
Hi Brian, the '' O' Donnell " wedding was actually Vincent Fleming and Anna Coyle who are my Mum & Dad and were married 23rd April 1962.. They celebrated their 50th Wedding anniversry in April of this year. I showed them the film this morning and they were thrilled to see it as neither were aware that anyone was filming... Great film, thanks for posting.
Superb! Love the captions and the choice of music. What a great artefact to have in the family.
Thanks for the comment.
Hi Pat, That’s fantastic! It must have been a bit of a shock and I’m glad they enjoyed it (and finally nailing down the date, it’s been a bone of contention for a while). I’d love to find out how they managed to cram in three weddings in one service (can you imagine the reaction of young couples today if they had to share a wedding service)
a nice old fashioned wedding everyone hugging kissing by the end of the night the cut throat razors come out ah the good old days
Brilliant.... my mum and dad were married in Hospital street in '55 , and they had no photos of it so I get to see it vicariously through your video, thanks for sharing!!
Hi Cathleen, Thanks for the comment and the info on the wedding. I called it the O’Donnell wedding because I was sure I recognised the women coming out as part of the Duffy/O’Donnells who lived in Abbotsford Place (I think they were all related in some way and I think they came from Annagry)
I remember going to evening mass on a Sunday at St. John’s and Canon Boyle used to bring a huge alarm clock onto the altar so that he could time the mass perfectly . Devotions were immediately after mass and he tried to prevent people leaving by going straight into devotions . This would have been in the early sixties.
Hi Wanda,
Yes, I remember Canon Boyle and I remember devotions.. My mother always was the first out the church door as she played cards in the local card school on a Sunday evening.
Highlight of her week.
As kids there was nothing better than anticipating the moment to scramble for coppers. Sometimes there was a dummy throw in an attempt to throw us off but it was easily sussed.
What a great video! Thank you for sharing it. I lived at 5 Norfolk Street, above Arthur Black's and it was wonderful to see the old place and St John's too.
Thanks for your comment Allison, There are more photos of around Gorbals Cross on a video I made for BBC a while back. You can search it on TH-cam with Gorbals short story brian mchugh
(I’ll put in a link but they don’t usually work for comments)
The day the music died.wmv
my maiden name is carroll lived in gilmour street oatlands
Rose Doyle here, from Ballyboes...Margaret Vaughan sent me the video, and I posted it, never thinking so many people would enjoy it!
Nice film... READ THE REAL GORBALS STORY NEXT BRILLIANT BOOK 👍
The unpretentious ambience of the colourful wedding groups in this film is delightful. Scrambles required participants to adopt various strategies to, 'get in first' for the shillings, tanners, thruppennies, pennies and ha'pnees. Some were left staring into the distance as the newly married couple were driven away.
Hi Jacqueline, Glad you enjoyed it. I wouldn’t be so ungentlemanly to ask who your granny is (in case it gives her age away!). Incidentally I was fortunate enough to be selected to do a piece for the BBC Radio two years ago where I narrated one of my short stories. Your Gran might recognise some of the Gorbals photos in it. Unfortunately you can’t use links to other videos. If you search for ‘Gorbals Short Story’ or ‘Brian McHugh’ on yTube or Google you should get it.
Hi Brian, this popped up on my phone. Can't believe it. My mum was Mary Greene (it said she filmed it) I recognised my mum as the young woman in the bird nest bluish hat. She'd be about 20ish. I came along later. She married Eamon McCormick (I'm their son, John McCormick, 64 now) I went to St John's church every Sunday and attended St John's primary school across the road. I hung around for quite a few of those scrambles. As a kid we lived on South Portland St. Recognised some of those faces. Thanks for posting it. Happy memories. I'd give anything to go back 😊.
READ THE REAL GORBALS STORY NEXT BRILLIANT
Hi Gang, My family all grew up in the Gorbals (1920-1968) and then later moved to Caledonia Rd, not far away. My grandmothers name was Kathrine McGuire and she had 4 children who all grew up in the Gorbals. Hugh, Joe, Ella(my mother) and John. Does anyone recognise these names? I believe they lived at Crown and Ballater st.
We call them pub weddings in Dublin , I had one in 1981. A Great party still talked about today. A son and a party, the only two goid things that came from it. You Live and you learn. 🤣☘️
I do indeed...I presume you have the video of the Ballyboes School reunion....and I have an album of old Gorbals photos on Facebook, some of which I've posted on a site called Like this if your fae the Gorbals. I spent the Bells with Margaret :)
love this wee video, my aunt was called grace Friel although not sure if this is her
My Grandfather's mother was a Friel too... Janet. That's going way, way, way back.....She married a McPhee.....
this is weird my maiden name is rosie martin my dad billy martin at the start of wedding my auntie rosies wedding ty for sharing
Thanks for posting the video Rose. Both my parents went to Ballyboes School. My dad Peter (Margaret’s uncle) and my mother Mary Sweeney from Derryreel. (You probably know the Sweeney’s - they still have a house there.)
Hi Brian, watching this with my 8yr and her great grannie is in this video as a young women, fantastic to watch thank you.
Hi Brian. This wasn't an O'Donnell wedding. It was one of the Coyle sisters who was getting married (Anna). Another of the sisters, (Mary) was married to John O'Donnell. These are my aunts. What a brilliant video, thank you.
Thanks for getting in touch, I'l l try to contact you through facebook
Brian McHugh Thank you Brian - marvellous stuff . My parents , Annie Doherty and Paddy Mc Glynn were married in Glenfin , Donegal in 1961,but they lived in Cavendish Street in The Gorbals till about 1964 and I was born in the tenement in 1962 . Priceless to see this slice of what it was like back then when I entered this world and my parents were starting out on their married life .
Patrick Mc Glynn
Hi Rosie,
Yes, your dad and I were first cousins; and your mother was Pat McKenna’s sister. The woman in the beginning - Madge Martin - was your Grandmother. Your right, it is rather weird seeing these scenes from so long ago, but glad you enjoyed it.
so glad it gt posted ma mum doing well staying bk in ireland good old age 71 :)
Hi Charlotte, I be surprised if it wasn't. Grace was a friend of my sister Maureen.
I think the babe-in-arms is Patricia. There were the twins Michael and John. Oddly enough I also occurred to me that Harry Friel (Your great uncle?) owned a pub not far from St. Johns called the Clock Bar. I worked in it for a while.
Great video 😊
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Brilliant posting Brian..