Have Trowel Will Travel

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ShieldCrest, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 273 pages
Danny Gill was born and bred in the old slum tenements in Glasgow’s South Side. His years as a bricklayer took him half way round the world. His story recounts his travels, the ladies in his life and his fondness for a drink and tells of his life in Irish politics resulting in death threats against him. While building bricks in all sorts of weather, he also managed a more steady side to his life when he got married and had three daughters. After a career of 46 years, a combination of wear and tear coupled with the worst recession in living memory forced him into retirement but he never regrets a moment and now has more time to spend with his wonderful family and five grandchildren to date.
 

Contents

Growing up in Glasgow
1
Starting work
16
Life as a young tradesman
26
Arriving in London
38
Manchester here I come
53
Off to Oz
67
No more Trudy
78
Back in London
89
Second best barman in the world
174
My Ma passes away
186
Retirement
195
Sheltered housing
207
Friends reunited
216
Publishing nightmares
224
Glad times and sad times
232
Glasgow revisited
240

New digs and new site
102
40 Years old
114
Ireland
145
London again
158
Pubs in South London
251
Epilogue
260
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