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from an old Drumchapel boy Nowadays there is a wee row of shops here. In the old days it was all a big nursery. A nursery was where you could buy potted plants, flower-seed, fruit and vegetables. It is a wee bit like Dobbie’s out in Bearsden, or else like B & Q Garden Centre. If you go along Drumchapel Road one way it changes to Garscadden Road and leads down to Great Western Road. Everybody calls it the Boulevard. A boulevard usually has grass growing down the middle of it. Sixty years ago the tramcars went down the middle of it instead. The trams had their terminus at Blairdardie, beside Cloberhill Primary School. My Dad went there as a boy. We thought Great Western Road was the best roads in Scotland. It went from St George’s Cross right out past Loch Lomond and up through Crianlarich. It goes right up to the Highlands from here, through the high mountains by Glen Coe. Great Western Road goes another way. This is through Arrochar then onto the long steep road called the Rest and Be Thankful. You see here the old road that the Highland cattlemen used to drive their cattle down from the Highlands. They were quite poor and did not have much food. When they were hungry they pricked the veins of their cattle to let out wee drops of blood. They mixed the blood with oats and called it a ‘blood pudding’. They ate that blood pudding to keep them going till they got to the market. * 60
from an old Drumchapel boy If you go the other way on Garascadden Road past the White Church it leads to the corner of Kinfauns Drive and Drumry Road. Before you get there the road turns a bend and here was a private road blocked off by iron gates. These gates had their own name. They were called the ‘Girnin Gates’. They guarded the entrance to Garscadden Estate and were made out of twisted iron and painted jetblack. Kids thought they were a bit creepy and angry-looking. An angry-looking face is a ‘girnin’ face. People said the gates were always ‘girnin’. The Girnin Gates blocked a wee private road that led into the mansion house. The rich people who lived there closed the heavy gates to stop people running in to look. Garscadden Estate was made for adventures. Kids in Drumchapel all had their own ways of skipping in. We were not allowed to go through the Girnin Gates. Nobody was allowed. Only the ones that owned the big mansion house. This was a rich family called Colquhoun. Other people out of this family owned the land all round Loch Lomond. They owned the land all round Dawsholm Park and Kilmardinny too. They owned other land all round Aberdeen. They were a very rich family. They bought the land and did not like people walking on it. If you look up from Garscadden Road you see a high-up street on top of the hill. This is Belsyde Avenue. It overlooks the Estate. One of my teachers from Stonedyke Primary lived there. She was a good teacher. Mrs Douglas was her name. We all liked her. She told 61
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