I left Springburn when I was 10 in 1954 never been back and now beginning to remember it more as often when I go to sleep keep seeing myself as a kid walking along in the sun at the top of Hillkirk st and looking at a bowling green? missing the place after 54 years, so started looking on the internet and now I find its no longer the way it, was Then I found your website,wow thanks to the pics of the way it was I am remembering more , and reading the name Raymond Carrol was really something as it seemed to pull a forgotten memory up from the depths of my mind, I know the name but can only get fleeting glimpses of the face,anyway am writing this in the hope that someone can help me remember .My name is Richard Purcell and I lived in Springburn from the time I was 4 til 10, my mother had a sweetshop about 3/4 of the way up the street on the right coming up the hill just after a church and almost opposite a nurses home (think it was a nurses home) further along from the nurses home was a lane which led to a big posh house where a church organist lived with his family he had a son called Alfred and we used to play cowboys an indians sometimes, in his big garden but mainly I used to play out with other friends,past this led to the blocks where my grannie lived and I went sledgin on a metal tray down a grassy hill which used to ice over (had to watch u didnt smash into the fence at the bottom) with David Johnson and his little brother Jacky then there was Elenor Bar and she had a big brother called William and their Dad had a bus which we went camping to Inverary in, other things I remember slightly are a park with a pond where we tried to catch tiddlers an put them in jam jars the swimming baths and a speedway track .The gospel hall spellbound listening and watching the teacher put cut out biblical characters on a board with a back ground of biblical stories R.Purcell

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