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Hello, my name is [Irene Crosthwaite]!

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Home town:Cumbernauld

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Current residence:Cumbernauld
When I lived in Hillkirk Street I was known as ReneeMacDonald.My younger sister Alison and I lived in number 26 along with our parents, Mary and Malcolm. Dad was a shipwright and worked in Govan. We came to Hillkirk Street during the war and I think it was about 1944. I have memories of sitting in my pram in the single end house while a man put a new window in and I can still remember the smell of the putty. We remained in that house until the beginning of 1952 when I was ten and my sister was four and we got a brand new house in Barmulloch. My mother was overjoyed with her new house and the fact that it was so clean after the house in Hillkirk Street which had mice and gaslight as my dad refused to instal electricity claiming the landlord should do that! My friends in the street were the Ingram girls from the next close and Cecilia Colquhoun from my close. I was also friendly with a girl called Beth Boyd who lives in a bungalow (I think) in Hillkirk Place. I remember we used to play on the wall of her house. I had a friend from school, Rena MacIntosh who lived in the Blocks and I thought they were very posh because they had more than one room and looked elegant to me. I went to Gourlay Street School and my best teacher there was Mr MacKelvie. We had him for a number of years and it was through his patience and hard work that I got to go to Albert. Most of what I know now I learned in his class as I didn't have much education in Albert due to my ill-health. I left Albert at fifteen only in the second year and always regretted that I didn't have a better education there. I used to like to go up to the bowling green mainly because of the grass and the open-ness. We used to walk out to Bishopbriggs on a Sunday and pick bluebells there. Unfortunately they had died by the time we got home. Springburn Park was another favourite outing. We would take jam sandwiches and the orange juice you got from the clinic diluted. From the window of our house I could see, what looked to me like a castle and I've seen it in the photographs on this site. Of course it isn't a castle but it looked like that to me from Hillkirk Street and I used to imagine that a princess lived there. It's been great reading others' memories and I'll probably write again as I remember other things. I just hope I'm successful in sending this!



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