Nae Streets in Drumchapel - Glasgow Life

from an old Drumchapel boy
men. They shouted at us not to come too close. Sometimes the men
were not looking and we skipped in. One boy stood on the bottom
edge of the roller-gate and another boy jerked the chains to hoist it
up. The boy who was standing on the gate went up high. A man saw
us and shouted. The boy jumped off. We all laughed and ran back to
school.
Temple Primary was a good school. There were forty three kids
in my class. We played football in the playground. The best thing
was the dinner-school. It had the best cooking. The steak pie was
great and so was the caramel cake and custard.
The winter was very cold that year. Heavy snow fell and lay
thick on the ground. One morning we waited for the buses to come
and take us to all the different schools. The buses never came. We
played at snow fights in Glenkirk Drive and then went home. Lucky
for us most mothers were in the house.
Next day we hoped the snow would stay so we would miss
school again. But even with snow we never missed football.
Sometimes we played and the ball turned into a big snowball. If it
was snowing very heavily some boys did not come out to play.
Maybe there were only four. We could till play a game of football
two against two. If there were only two boys we played ‘heidies’.
One boy a side. We had a goal each and headed the ball to score a
goal. Only heads were allowed to score.
The year after we went to Drumchapel the schools were ready
for the children. In One Scheme we had two primaries. One for
Protestants and one for Catholics. The Proestant one was called
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