Have Trowel Will TravelDanny 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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