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from an old Drumchapel boy It was better if we had bikes. We never went only with two pals. We waited till we had about six. Sometimes bigger boys came with us. Maybe we had two bikes between six boys. Two boys went the bikes. Two boys got ‘backies’. The other two boys just ran beside them. Then they changed ‘backies’. We took our swimming trunks and a sandwich too. We called sandwiches ‘pieces’. We ate a piece on jam. That was bread with jam on it. Sometimes we were very hungry and dug a turnip out a farmer’s field. We wiped the soil off the turnip. One of the big boys had a knife. He cut off the thick skin of the turnip. These turnips were very white inside. The big boy cut a wee slice of turnip off and gave it to other ones. It was juicy and chewy to eat. Carrots were best but we did not find many. Other times we found a tree with wee apples growing. These were called ‘crab apples’. We ate them but they were very hard and not very tasty. If we ate too many we got queasy stomachs and needed the toilet. There were proper apple trees too and pear trees. We looked for them. They were in people’s gardens. Sometimes apples and pears dropped off them. We lifted them up. If we were very hungry a big boy shook the branches. Apples dropped off and we could lift them. Some boys climbed the trees to get apples. We trekked miles along the Stockiemuir Road until the golf course. We stopped before the wee road that goes along the side of the golf course beside the Allander River. There was a wee loch here where we swam. It was not deep. It had big weeds and rushes at one end. We had to be careful our feet did not get tangled up. That wee 68
from an old Drumchapel boy loch is not there now. The farmer drained it away to make a new field for cattle to graze. We went away along the wee road at the side of the golf course. It goes over a bridge and up round a bendy road. There is a big gulch at the side. It was steep and dangerous. Only big boys went through the railings here. We walked on up the bendy road. It was too steep for bikes to go. This road takes you out beside Mugdock Country Park. This is the way into the Castle at Drumclog field where the battle was. In the old days. It was not a country park in the old days. When we went we just went in if we wanted. One time there we found an old zoo from bygone times. If you go round Mugdock nowadays you can see where animals were kept locked up in cages. The best pond for tadpoles is the Gallows pond. On the other side of the road from Mugdock Country Park was one of the best lochs we ever had for swimming. It was very deep and good for diving. If you could not swim it was better not to go into it. * We all liked swimming a lot and we went to Whiteinch Baths, Maryhill Baths and Woodside Baths, and two baths in Govan, Harhill Baths and Summerton Road Baths. Our favourite baths was at Clydebank. All the swimming pools had diving dales in the old days. Clydebank Baths had two other good things: a springboard and 69
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INTRODUCTION This book was written
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Drumchapel was still being built an
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There were no shops either. People
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Tracy’s Mum - 1960s When my mum w
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