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Kathleen from Glasgow. Posted 22 Sep 2003.
the fifties were the best.
No drugs, or muggings, and everyone got on well even the kids. I went to McGill primary in Pollok and loved every minute of it, then to Crookston Castle secondary.
At both schools we were proud to wear our school uniform.
in fact, it's what we HAD to wear as our parents couldn't afford to send you in good stuff.
us three sisters and everyone else for that matter were proud of the uniform.
On Sundays all the Mums used to play in the street with the kids at rounders or skipping ropes. We made our own entertainment, and not one person said i'm bored. We were never bored.
We had more freedom then as it was safe to go to the park, the brownies, the guides
or anywhere, like cycling to Loch Lomond on our bikes. Parents didn't have the same
concern then.
We had more entertainment outside than we had inside.
it's the opposite with the kids today. At Christmas you got what your parents could afford and you never knew what you got till Christmas day. Today the kids go with parents to choose what they want. It takes the Chrismassy feeling away.
It's not the same now, where did society go wrong ? i wonder.
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|  | Gordon Buchanan from Virginia U.S,A. Posted 6 May 2004.
I totally agree with your comments. I was at Shawlands academy in the 50's. No drugs or stupidity as in todays schooling .(except a puff on a woodbine) Good day's safe days for children and less worry for parents, Wishing you well ....Buchan
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| | Sandra Mitchell from Aberdeen. Posted 12 Aug 2004.
I agree, I feel really sorry for the kids today, they have all the great technology that is around but the one thing and the best thing they don't have, is freedom. On school holidays, I usually only saw my mother at meal times and at bed time.
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| | Pete Young from Denmark. Posted 9 Nov 2005.
Well, I was born in the 50s but can recognise what you're saying here. In the early to mid-Sixties I think Glasgow was still the same as you mention. At least in Dennistoun. Of course, if you moved away from Dennistoun there were the early 'gangs' hanging about in the bordering areas. But Alexandra Park, for example, was somewhere you could go on your own as a child.
I remember there was football played on all the pitches and folks sailing model boats on the pond. There was also the ABC Minors at the weekends. But the times have changed indeed. Generations of inner city poverty and neglect have left things in a sad state. I also sometimes look at all the empty churches and wonder if some spiritual aspect has gone too. But my own memories are mixed. Mine was a 'broken home' so much of what I remember was tinged what was happening there. But the happiest times were playing the backcourts with pals.
Best wishes
Pete Young
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| | Christine Adamson from Brechin, Angus. Posted 13 Mar 2006.
My strongest memories of childhood in Pollokshaws wasthe steamie. Mum would pile all the dirty wash in an old pram and we would all be dragged with her to the steamie where we had to help or 'sit there and be quiet'. There were giant driers which were pulled out from the wall with hot bars on them to hang clothes and then it was pushed back in. Once a week we would be taken to the steamie, which incorporated the public baths, to have a bath for 6d as we had no bath at home, in fact our loo was on the stairheed and shared with others.
I also remember playing in the back green which was a big square of the back of houses with air raid shelters in the middle. We played on these for hours and as you got older you could join the big yins and jump from shelter to shelter. We were poor but as children we were happy.Our parents knew more about the 'hard life' of those days.
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