Another lecture at that time was one on the Crown Street Project, which
were the New Gorbals, the lecturer pointed out that for the purpose of selling
houses, the name Gorbals could not be mentioned, nobody would want to
live there. This has obviously changed since then, because it has become
fashionable to live in the new Gorbals. I do wonder what this curious name
Gorbals actually means.
One of the events at the festival was an exhibition of designs for household
items, I was pleased to see among these a Sunbeam kitchen machine,
these days you would call it a food
processor. I had bought the very same
machine second hand from a friend in
Nottingham in the 1970s. The factory was in
1998 still in East Kilbride, as I found out.
When we had moved, I found that the
whisks to my machine were broken and I
wanted to replace them, but the customer
service of Sunbeam told me they didn’t
have spare part to the old machines.
So, I went next door to my neighbour where I had spotted the same machine
in the kitchen and asked her to lend me her beaters. As I put them on my
machine, I found that the motor had gone, so I went again and asked to lend
me her machine.
Her husband Frank carried it over to us and told me not to bring it back,
since he had bought a new Kenwood for Celine which she never used. I
used my machine until this year, mainly with the mincer attachment for
making my marmalade,
I thought 2018 should be the last lot of
marmalade I make, so the machine should
not move with us to our new home. My son
has got it now, I believe he wants to sell it
on e-bay, he had seen one like this
advertised there for a nice price.
I learned a lot about this city when it was
City of Architecture. It is a joy to go around
and see these buildings now, and looking
up, see some figure standing above (there
is one at the corner of a building opposite
Queens Park, which looks like the Statue
of Liberty)- and think:” Sculpture by
Mossmann”.
Brigitte Williams
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