'I was surrounded by gangs but never wanted to be in one.'
column is a way for readers to share their memories of childhoods in the city.-born man Andrew Wilson recalls his favourite playgrounds – the tenement ‘cowp’ and the Necropolis.....I was born in Glasgow Royal Infirmary in August 1948 and I grew up in a one-bedroom, top floor flat at 128 Alexandra Parade, with my mother, father and sister. It had a cowp out the back that we played in. There were two old air raid shelters and a place where the rag and bone man housed his big old horse.
I went to Golfhill School on Circus Drive and then Onslow Drive Secondary. We moved out the tenement around 1959, to 507 Alexandra Parade. I didn’t like it as there was no cowp to play in and no kids in the back courts, which were very clean, and empty, except for the washing hanging on the lines. From Townhead to Dennistoun, it was like moving to a different country.The Glesga of today is not the Glesga of my upbringing. I was surrounded by gangs but never wanted to be in one.
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