Nae Streets in Drumchapel - Glasgow Life

from an old Drumchapel boy
Stories about Garscadden Estate go back hundreds of years. The
Estate stretched over from Linkwood Drive, down through the back
of Southdeen Road and Southdeen Avenue, over to Belsyde Avenue,
and then down to Garscadeen Road leading to the other end of
Kinfauns Drive, just at the corner of Drumry Road.
This is near the old shopping centre, close to the library on
Halbeath Avenue. See across Dunkenny Road from here. This is
Halgreen Avenue. My big brother had a newspaper job here when he
was a boy. When he stopped doing it I took it over. It was my first
good newspaper job.
Another farm was down past the swimming pool on Drumry
Road, by the corner of Dunkenny Road. In the old days a ‘dun’ was
the name of a wee fort on a hill. We wondered if one was here in the
olden times and if there was a Clan Chief called Kenneth.
Sixty years ago here was a big grass field. Every summer the
farmer let a carnival come for two weeks in June. We called it ‘the
shows’. It was the same carnival as went to Glasgow Green. In the
winter the same carnival went to the Kelvin Hall. Nowadays it is the
one that comes to the SECC.
In the old days it went round to where people lived. When it
stopped in Drumchapel it was just there at the corner of Drumry
Road and Dunkenny Road. Boys and girls thought it was great when
‘the shows’ came. We went everyday. We could not pay the money
to go on things all the time. We just listened to the music and had a
laugh with the lasses.
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