Robert Douglas

Allander Church, Milngavie - Saturday 10th Sept - 1.00pm

Includes tea/coffee

Glasgow’s best selling memoirs 'Night Song of the Last Tram',  'Somewhere to Lay my Head' and 'At Her Majesty’s Pleasure', have consolidated Robert’s reputation as a most entertaining writer who combines the pithy and humorous with compassion and sentiment. With his usual blend of laughter and tears, Robert Douglas has delivered an engaging second  novel of tenement life set in Maryhill Road  ‘Staying on Past the Terminus’.

Glasgow 1961.
It is ten years since we last visited the close at 18 Dalbeattie Street in Maryhill.
The stalwarts are still there...Ella, Drena, Rhea and 'Granny' Thomson (86).
Irma the German war bride speaks fluent Scots nowadays. Well, 'fluent' if you were brought up in the same close as the Broons and Oor Wullie.
Glasgow's beloved trams still run on the Maryhill Road. But not for long. There will not be a tramcar left in Glasgow by the end of next year. The new tenant, Frank Galloway knows all about this - he's a driver. The other new arrival is Ruby Baxter who impresses no one with her attitude - as Granny Thomson says "She's no better than she ought to be, that yin!"