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Writer's pictureJodi Rae

Old Glasgow - Tenement Blocks 1969 - 1972


I recall the struggle my mother was going through after my birth. I was a sickly child. Lot of ear-arches. Between me, born in 1963, and my little sister Peggy, born in 1971, mom lost two baby boys. She was always blaming someone, who had the spirit cast over seas. Who? "I do not know who!" she'd exclaim.


Well then so much fantasy, speculation, and dreaming, of who she was, told it was of royal ancestry. She could do it better, be 'the Queen'. Just why was it this way?


I look at what these pictures show, everything she and my father did was attempting to keep us at least at middle income level, and not be subjects to this.


Suddenly, I realized looking at these pictures my own mother was responsible for this scene and its upkeep.


My mother, and father have rights to the Earldom or Duchy of Glasgow.


Today, the Earl of Glasgow is held by Clan Boyle. I consider the development of the old tenements shown in these photographs and what happened to my duplex in St. Paul, Minnesota by the Gandara's just before Terence Patrick Brennan, my father-in-law purchased it for us.


The Gandara's tore down the wall and garage and neglected to support the land, so then the whole east facing wall of the duplex at 76 Baker Street East, St. Paul, Minnesota, cracked from basement to roof due to land shift.


I lived in that house from February 1987 until April 2010.


The people everywhere in world knew of my living conditions. Likely laughed a little knowing what I had rights to and where they found me living.


Who was the developer of the Glasgow as the old tenements were torn down and new living conditions were created? Who paid for this?


I am at a loss for words for the extremes of living my sister, Lori dreamed of Buckingham Palace, and the old world ways, she even ended up living in trailers and being abused time and again by husband and landlord alike.


Well then, are we 'royal tenements' of the people?


Add: This sparked my interest, Thomas Annan

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