05-08-14, 10:03 PM
Quote:You did good VNA. There is a way of dealing with these kids, and as you walked away with your kit, I'd say you more or less got it. I grew up in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Glasgow called Drumchapel, known locally as "the drum". It was, and still is, a scary place if you are a stranger. But there are good people there too. Kind, hard working people with not a pot to piss in or a windae to throw it out of. But they would not see someone go without if they had something to share.
A bit of luck as well I think. I didn't make that mistake again.
Those two snaps were taken on Lincoln Avenue. Was covering the 'Kingslink International Festival', I think that was 2008. A pal of mine teaches at Drumchapel High. It was the folks living in the high-rises that stopped the Home Office carrying out their dawn raids on refugee families. You might have heard of The Glasgow Girls - the Drumchapel High School lassies that took on the government over the behaviour of The Home Office.