by leverngirl » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:59 am
Hi, found this site quite by accident while researching something else. I lived with my family in Glentyan Drive, from 1951 till 1959. We lived at the top of the hill, I think the power station was next door; across the road was a small wood and further down a sort of rough sloping field, which quickly became Gowanbank School. The wood pretty much remained intact, and I broke my ankle falling off the pailings which separated it from the school. If you were a pupil at Levern, you had to do a year at Gowanbank - primary 5 or 6 I think, because presumably Levern was too small to accommodate all of the recent arrivals to the area (and this was before building had begun on South Nitshill). Our back green was enclosed on two sides by an old stone wall. Over the wall was the priest's house (we used to steal the apples, and I was caught by the gardener!), then the doctor's house (Dr Watsmann?)and another house, then a large house which we called Ricky's house (Ithink Ricky may have been a dog who lived there). This house had a large garden to the rear, and we climbed on the wall to pick their red-currants. No-one seemed to know anything about the people who lived in this house; they were never seen in the garden and consquently became the subject of much conjecture (amongst the children) about what mystery they were hiding. We went picnics (bread and jam and a bottle of water) to the ruined Darnley Castle, and what we called the Bluebell Woods on the left of Nitshill Road,going towards the Hurlet . And I don't think anyone's mentioned the Socialist Sunday School (which I think actually met on Saturday) on Nitshill Road. Enough for now. Great site, thanks.