Nae Streets in Drumchapel - Glasgow Life

When I was younger
When I moved to Drumchapel in 1955 the first thing I noticed
was wide-open spaces, it was like being in the country after
leaving a single-end in Partick.
I fell in love with it from day one. I lived at 132 Drummore
Road. We had a great big field and The Bluebell Wood just
facing us.
One of our great pastimes was playing shops in the field. We
used to get flowers, old tin cans, empty packets of food and
anything else we could find. We'd wrap them in newspaper and
sell them to our friends. Of course we didn't use real money we
used stones and the shop that took in the most stones were the
winners.
A summer favourite was having a concert in the back, we would
rehearse for weeks. Some would, sing some dance, some would
say a poem, and the adults would come and watch us. We charged
3d to get in which included refreshments a glass of diluting
orange and the money was sent to charity, well what was left of
it.
In the wet weather we played up the closes, the
neighbours didn’t mind when we played nice with our dolls and
prams but that when that got boring the balls would come out
and we would play against the walls and sing all the wee rhymes
until Mrs Smith would come out shouting
“My man’s on night shift, go and play in your own close" and that
was the end of that, back out to play in the rain.
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