SOME OLD CODGERS THINKING BACK
The Fountain on the Cowgate was always a meeting place and now with the benches its the place for the town's elderly population to sit and reminisce about what the town was like and what they did in the good old days before Telly and Computers.
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Hey Willie do you remember the Queen coming to the Peel Park and me being one of the Scouts Guard of Honour.
Hey George, do you remember the Holidays at Home' in Woodhead Park during the Glasgow Fair Week and the 'Go-as-you-please' Competition. Well I knew the fella that always
won it with his 'Donald Duck' impression.
There was always two libraries in Kirkie, Jimmy. The William Patrick in the Peel Park and the Step-in Library on the Cowgate opposite Templeton's.
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Hey Gordon remember Baxters Sweet Shop at the corner of Queens Street. For a while she had no real sweets, but I can remember the queue when she first got some, a near riot.
That reminds me, George, can ye mind Templeton's overhead
cash line system. put it in a tube
and pull the handle.
Do you mind, Tam, of Cook's Off-licence just up from Baxters. The prices were that good there was always a queue out of the shop.
Do remember Gordon where you got your 'short back and sides' haircut. It was at Bill Connel's shop next to the Pen at Kerr Street and also taking your shoes or school bag to be repaired at Cannings the Cobbler next to Freeland Place.
Can you remember seeing the One Man Submarine going up the Canal from Clyde to Forth.
Hey George, when I was a lad and had rabbits I used to get straw from Alexanders Stores and sawdust from Murrie's the Joiners Yard in Kerr Street.
Tam, do you remember when you could phone Devines, the Licensed Grocer in Lenzie to deliver 4 bottles of beer to your house when there was no licences to sell drink in Kirkie.
Bruce do you remember when the summers were that hot the tar melted on the pavements and the Canal was clean enough for us to jump off the Townhead Bridge.
My Saturday penny, Adam, was
spent in Aitken's Emporium, next the Auld Kirk. Wonderful shop with everything for kids costing only pennies.
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