I grew up in The Blocks and had a magical childhood there, all the neighbours knew each other as you had to work in the railway to get a house there. I stayed in Colgrain Terrace, my Granny Mitchell and Auntie Janet and cousin Tommy MIitchell ived in Elmvale Row East and my cousins Oswald and Jessie Scott lived in Ratho Terrace. There was a railway mission where we went to Sunday School and there was also a club where the men played snooker which was next to the Plots where some men grew vegetables or flowers. On one side of The Blocks we had the trains and on the other there was a great big hill which was brilliant for sledging in the winter. We had gas lights and old fashioned grates which had to be cleaned with Zebro and emery paper every Friday in case visitors came at the weekend. In the summer we played rounders, beds football, hide and seek and freea leash..

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