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Machrie 1958

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Castlemilk Drive 1989

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2009 Castlemilk Swimming Pool

Click to view attachment 2010 Castlemilk Drive just at Machrie

Click to view attachment Castlemilk Swimming Pool 1990

Click to view attachment The Lake July 2010

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State Cinema

I have set up a page on Facebook Castlemilk....Past And Present everyones welcome....

Thanks, Joyce. A great selection of photos!

GG.

This pic has brought back a lot of memories!!


I am sure a family called the Maguires lived in that house. Their son Gary was in my class at school at St Dominics, but tragically drowned in the resevoir in the Cathkin Braes when we were around 9 or 10 - 1979/1980.

I still think of Gary - he was a really nice guy always had a smile!

Some images that I have found across the internet over the years of Castlemilk, apologies if there are any reposts.

St Bartholomews 1950s?
St Dominics 1958
St Margaret Marys Secondary School 1971, (Maggies !)

Castlemilk from the Braes - Looking at Tormusk & Ardencraig Rod area 1950s

Building the Flats 1958 - but which flats? Mitchell ?

Bogany Flats being demolished - 1980s?

the flats being built were dougrie flats.....done late 60's early 70's i think......and bogany flats was demolished 92/93 if i remember rightly coz i remember watching it from my granny's flat in dougrie flats

If the picture of the flats being built is 1958, then it is Mitchell hill flats, as Dougrie Heights were not built until 1962.

it's definitely dougrie being built coz you can see glenacre in the back ground

Then the photo couldn't have been taken in 1958 as Glesga Geek thought, it would have been taken in the early 60s.

hi,

The years could be wrong as I am only going along with what was captioned against them when I came across them on the internet.

But as to the building of Dougrie - according to the official planning maps Dougrie was already built by 1955 but the flats (called Waterbank Heights!)were built between 1965 and 1975.

Looking at the maps - I see that the path between the bowling greens and the healthcentre is actually an old roadway leading straight to Castlemilk House in use at least as far back as the earliest detailed map of 1860 !

Infact there looks to be an old lodge right where the Youth Centre stands now and it came down between 1965 and 1975 ! What destruction! I truely dont understand why they would tear down a historic building to build a Youth Centre! Does anyone have any photos of the lodge?

Found another pic that I had on my hard drive !

Dont know where I got it from - or why certain areas are highlighted !

I know the direction of where the photograph was took and the what the streets are - but I wont spoil it for you - as its fun to work it out. It looks to be taken before Castlemilk was fully built...

It was taken over the hole in the wall looking west in 1959, the purple shaded area is Ardencraig St, the yellow area is Drakemyre/ Raithburn area of the Valley. You can see Dougrie Rd and the area where the high flats in Dougrie Pl would be built between 1962/64.

youth centre?? do you mean the one in ardencraig??? coz that's on where glenwood school used to be...

hi,

the youth centre I mean is the one that used to be there and is now Cojac? that was at the shopping centre -

its the path in between the sports centre and Cojac and it leads to where Castlemilk House used to stand.
You can see it on the googlemaps link below:

http://g.co/maps/h7mjp

I will see if I can get some of the old maps posted...

Hello. I'm Peter Ross, the journalist with Scotland On Sunday who is trying to find the boys in Oscar Marzaroli's 1963 photograph The Castlemilk Lads, which I have now attached. I am hearing that the boy second from the left as you look at the picture is called Robbie Love and that he and his family lived at 34 Stravanen Drive in the 1960s but moved to England at some point. I think he may have had an older brother, William, who drowned.

I would really like to get in touch with Robbie, who should now be in his early sixties, or anyone from the Love family. Does anyone know where they are?

Best wishes,

Peter

peter.ross@scotlandonsunday.com

Riot at Grange Secondary School ?

Just read in the Sunday Post of a riot by school kids in Oct 1974 ? After the teachers went on strike over wages?

They smashed windows and damaged cars!

Does anyone remember this?

hi joyce ,great pictures of the old castle and pond.Iwas encarcerated in the home during and after the war,love to join your page shamie

The riot at Grange secondary school lasted for three days and were a very frightning experience for some of the first year kids including myself. I remember feeling that at least one of the teachers had inspired the older pupils to take direct action and remember a comment some thing like ' they wouldn't know whats hit them if the pupils go on strike'.

During the riot the pupils went berzerk, on the afternoon of the first day kids gathered in gangs and refused to report for lessons; the teachers then came out and disperrsed the groups and all ended peacefully. On the second day the morning break was interupted as gangs of older pupils began breaking the school windows and targeting the cars of the teachers who were not very popular - we were again dispersed and sent home at lunch time.

The third day began with school assembly, this was unusual and normally only reserved for the end of term break. the head teacher addressed the school and appealled for peace - there was much unease during the morning break and although there was no trouble some of the older kids were planing a riot. As the school regrouped in the afternoon there was another refusal to report for lessons. Teachers came out to try to calm the kids but this time the riot escalated and some teachers were attacked, the school gates were chain locked by the kids, large dustbins were used to baracade the gates and these were set on fire, more windows were broken and more cars were smashed up. kids threw stones at teachers and taunted them with sticks. When the police arrived they were stoned. The fire brigade put out the flaming bins and cut the gates opened and the kids dispersed as van loads of police entered our school.

The ring leaders got expelled and we were all given severe warnings.

The riots came on the back of a hellish begining to my first year; the term had begun in august and the three primary schools who made up the secondary and who had joined the first year were at war with each other; on the first day my classmate from primary was beaten and kicked unconcious by kids from another primary; the kid who was battered came from a tough family and his elder siblings banded together to take on the kids who had beaten him - this exploded into a school and family feud and was a major contributing factor to the riot that followed a few weeks later.

The saddest thing that came out of this event was that the kid who was beaten unconcious when he was only twelve died suddenly when he was seventeen, he died of a brain hemmorage and i\ have never had any doubt that it was related to the reception he recieved during his first day at Grange.

For all its faults, and there were many, we did benifit from some dedicated teachers who tried really hard for us; most of the pupils were decent kids and the troubles were a reflection of the high unemployment and social derivation that were part of growing up in castlemilk in the 70's

odewin jones

There was a girl called Lorrain Barbour who lived in Ardencraig Street throughout the mid seventies, she would have been a young teenager at this time. Hope this helps.

Click to view attachment This was taken at The Roundabout at Castlemilk/ Croftfoot on 13th Jan 2012.

Click to view attachment The Roundabout at Castlemilk/Croftfoot. Taken 13yh Jan 2012

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Click to view attachment The Crossroads at Castlemilk Road/Drive. Taken Jan 2012

Fantastic photographs & banter too, I have been away from "The Milk" for a long time - lived at 282 Ardencraig Road (very top of the drive & on your right)
Remember the Barbours from Ardencraig Road (James used to hang around with Burnsy
Does anyone know what became of Linda Kennedy (ex of Ardencraig Quad & my first real crush) - Think she moved to Pollock
I left Glasgow in 85 to join the forces attended Windlaw & Grange

I vaguely remember cookers across the front gate...I think!

Anyone remember the Bain family from Birgidale, or Dowie, or Lex McInally

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Dougrie Drive. Sept 2011.

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Dougrie Drive. Taken Sept 2011. Castlemilk Shopping Arcade on the right hand side.

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Castlemilk Housing Office just at Dougrie. Taken Sept 2011.

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Dougrie Road, where the swing park used to be. Taken Sept 2011.

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Looking along Dougrie Road towards the Swimming Baths. Taken Sept 2011.