Nae Streets in Drumchapel - Glasgow Life

Our beach 1970s
Growing up, up the hill we played over in the fields; and down at
our beach. This was a sand pit down by the burn. Our beach was
so much fun we had buckets and spades. We built forts, dug
tunnels and had moats with water from the burn. We pretended
the burn was the sea, full of big fish and boats. We paddled in
the burn as well. We would catch stickleback fish; collect
mussels for their shells to put on our sandcastles.
We would also play over the field on what we called the Roman
Wall, which was a wall of big boulders. We would race up and
down the wall jumping from boulder to boulder then at the
bottom we would jump over the burn.
Living up the hill
we also played
round the water
tower that we
pretended was a
space ship.
We played round the backs at hopscotch or jumping from dyke
to dyke. We would climb on the coalbunkers and dreapy down
the other side. Sometimes we would pretend the bunkers were
shops or houses. We had a big seesaw, which my mum would put
out in the summer for us and we made swings on the washing
poles with rope and a cushion.
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