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MY GRANDA’S STORY I was 11 or 12 when I moved to Drumchapel. I stayed in Kerry Place. I used to play with a Gird and Cleek. I’d go up to the Bluebell Woods or into the Garscube Estate and play. There was a big house, which had about 20 or 30 rooms in it. The house was where the Linkwood flats now stand. The entrance to the estate was on Drumchapel Rd where the Donald Dewar Centre now stands. The gates to the estate were called the Girnin’ Gates. A house stood just inside the estate, which I take it, was for the grounds keeper. The estate ran down into Knightswood where the pitches are. Lady Garscube owned the estate. There used to be a burn where the park in Kinfauns Drive is now. There were no schools in the area. We had to go to school in the west and northwest of Glasgow. It was only the primary age children who got buses laid on to take them to and from school. Some went to Northpark Street Primary in Maryhill, Whiteinch Primary, Yoker Primary and also Temple Primary. The secondary age kids got passes for the bus or train. There was only one bus that went into part of Drumchapel which came up Maxwell Avenue and down into Dalsetter Avenue where it terminated. If that didn’t suit we would either walk to the train station or walk to the Boulevard Roundabout for a bus and the same on the way back from school. The first school to be built was Drumry Primary. 6
There were no shops either. People had to rely on butchers, grocers, fish, bakers and fruit and veg vans to get their shopping until the first shops were built in Ladyloan Place. The first café was in Linkwood. It was called Clellands Café where the teenagers would hang out and listen to the jukebox. The owners had a daughter who was a former Miss Scotland, Liz Clelland. Behind Drumry Road was a farm and brick works. It was demolished and they built Beatties Biscuits Factory, now also gone. St Lawrence’s Chapel hall used to run bingo nights a couple of nights a week and the proceeds went towards the chapel being built. Alistair Gillies was the dentist at the bottom of Achamore Road. He was also a well-known Gaelic signer who was on TV and sang at the Mod. When I was 14 I went to the BB. I also went to bible classes and I used to be a Sunday school teacher in Halgreen while I was still at school. I left Drumchapel when I was in my early twenties. Chloe Gibney Primary 7 2013 7
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Page 15 and 16: Tracy’s Mum - 1960s When my mum w
Page 17 and 18: Games Outside 1970s Outside we play
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Page 23 and 24: The Whitie Coming home from school
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CAMSTRADDEN PRIMAR
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