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This is a little of my town.

Hello. I really believe that we should do as much as we can to give our home town, city or village some publicity other than that published in newspapers that is most often news that shows our place up in a very bad light.

Yes, we are honest enough to accept that most places have an area that is letting us down and unfortunately gets the most publicity and thus a bad name for the whole area.

I have recently made a small, admittedly amateur, film clip about my town, Barrhead, The Dams and other places of interest, hopefully to change the views of some folk.

http://youtu.be/WCz0kHBItpw

Tags: barrhead, dams, interest, photos, the

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Comment by Placebook Scotland on June 20, 2011 at 9:07: Thanks for adding this TRevor,

I totally agree with you, people really only talk about the bad parts or a town and there is so much more to pl;aces than that.

Glad you find the site too! technology will be my downfall!!

Elli

Comment by trevor downer on June 20, 2011 at 16:02: Thanks Elli, much of the problem stems from the local newspapers that cover in full all of the crimes making them every weeks headlines.

I discovered Placebook Scotland quite a while ago but had great difficulty in posting to the site which was a pity, technology is not my strong point but I'm old and have that as an excuse.

As Clint Eastwood (?) said, "I'll be back".

Trevor.

Comment by Placebook Scotland on June 21, 2011 at 10:35: Being from Inverness we get this alot, it is all about saturday night crime and ugly modern buildings, but no one talks about the great community groups, amazing views which hit you as you turn a corner and little spots to sit and have your lunch or walk the dog. There are bad places every where but by expecting a place to live up to its best bits really would improve the bad bits more than just pumping money in to accept mediocre. Not that I feel strongly about this!!

Comment by Erik Zoha on July 28, 2011 at 10:45: Good video, I like a well-made, thoughtfully put together video. I have little video-making skill myself, but record my thoughts and opinions through poetry and blog postings, and photos. I like your blog posting about the various natural and historical attractions on Glasgow's doorstep, we often don't appreciate our srroundings enough. Cheers - Erik in Dundee.

Comment by Erik Zoha on July 28, 2011 at 10:50: It was Arnie Schwarzenegger by the way, with the quote.

Comment by trevor downer on July 28, 2011 at 12:15: Hello Eric, Scrappy little amateur films I make, rubbish big budget films I don't see, but yes, your right, Schwarzenegger it was.

As an outsider I do take a great interest in Barrhead, it's not my place of birth but it is for my three sons, six grand children and one great grand daughter, it's their town and I want them to be proud of it.

My skill, or lack of it, at poetry, stops at the point where the poets don't rhyme June with Moon, Love with Turtle Dove, Hill with Daffodill, etc, with the exception of Hiawatha, "....Dead he lay there in the forest by the ford across the river, Beat his timid heart no longer but the heart of Hiawather...." that to me is a musical story.

My latest project is to draw together all about Barrhead from the many pages on the net, to put them in one place with credit and links to the original, bring the story up to date as a snapshot of Barrhead 2011 and to attempt to get closer links to Barrhead, Alberta. A post about that at a later time.

Keep good. Trevor.

This is a little of my town.

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