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from an old Drumchapel boy Stonedyke Primary. The Catholic one was at Belsyde Drive. I had Protestant pals and Catholic pals. * Stonedyke Primary was made of tin. It was a smashing school. I was lucky because there was a wee path went up to Cloan Avenue from beside my close at 86 Glenkirk Drive. So I was not late very often. When it was raining hard we heard the rain pattering off the walls. We liked that school very much. It had a good playground and a real-size football pitch. The pitch was not made of grass but of a thing called ‘red blaze’. ‘Red blaze’ was like hard dust. We ran fast to get the ball. When we fell down our arms and legs got scraped and bled. But it was still good for playing. The pitch sloped down. If we kicked the ball too high it bounced away down and went into people’s backs. The name ‘Stonedyke’ was taken from the farm that was on top of the hill up on Canniesburn Road, halfway between Pendicle Road and the corner of Kinfauns Drive. Here were cows and cattle before the Lawrence houses were built. There were other farms in Drumchapel back when we flitted there. Another one was farther along Canniesburn Road and round the bend past Pendicle Road. The road here goes up a wee hill before getting to Westerton Avenue. On the right hand side going up the way as a field and cattle graxed on it. 48
from an old Drumchapel boy Along down Canniesburn Road was another farmhouse with its barns. They were right in the middle of Canniesburn Toll roundabout. There was a toty bit of grass there for the cattle graze. The farmer led the cattle across the road to fields. Across the road was another one of our favourite places. This was a picture-house called The Rio. We saw good movies here. Years later they demolished this building. Nowadays it is a block of flats for people to live in. There were two other farms in Drumchapel. One was very near to Camstradden Primary. Turn the corner off Canniesburn Road where it meets Drumchapel Road and it takes us into Kinfauns Drive. Go along Kinfauns Drive to the bend in the road, just about Goyle Avenue. Here was a farm called MacGregors Farm. They sold milk. More and more flats were being built and more and more people were coming to live. The farmer and his family moved away. The house and barn were left standing. Nobody was in it for a long time. Big boys went there. They climbed in the windows and climbed on the roofs. Soon all the windows were smashed. Fires were started and things all broken. It was very dangerous. Wee kids never went into it. People thought it would fall down on their heads. After a long while workmen came and knocked down the buildings. Other workmen came and built new flats. It was part of Three Scheme. The streets were called Tallant Terrace, Tallant Road and Goyle Avenue. 49
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