When we moved to Springburn I was too young to do much housework. However, when I was old enough I looked after my two brothers and my cousin who lived in Horne Street, just off Hawthorn Road. To have a bath we had to travel to my granmothers house in Nairnside Road, otherwise we washed in the kitchen sink. Which only had a cold tap and a boiler at the side for hot water. We went outside to play, I recall a lot of kids playing in the back courts. I also remember old guys used to come round and sing and people would throw pennies out the window for them. I went to the brownies which was held in a church opposite the Caley. I also went to dance classes which were held by a dance teacher my mother had also attended some 20 odd years previously. We got thurpence a day before decimilisation, after which we received 2 pence a day! We didn't get fixed pocket money, but our grandparents were very generous.

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I thought Id share some of the things I got up to when I was young , First games , we played Scabbie touch, on top of the dykes ,(bin houses or wash houses),we would rake through the didges (bins) and find some old fruit, next we'd choose who was het then the one who was het had to throw the old piece of fruit at the others on the dykes if you got hit you were het. another game was high tig where the one who was het had to tig you if your feet touched the ground, so the others had to move about by staying of the ground jumping from walls to (coal bunkers and window sills, once I jumped from one bunker to another and went through it and gashed the back of my leg ,leaving me with a six inch scar,my mum to this day believes i geahed it on the spikes left on the walls where the railings were,hehe Im 54 now and my mum is 80. Finlay

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