Backcourt Memories
This is a picture of my Cousin, myself I’m in the middle
and one unknown baby. This was taken when I was about eight and living
at 27 Grier Street, Parkhead. This was the first house that I lived in
when my daddy left the army after World War Two. The picture was taken
on the backcourt tenement steps. My Dad was born in the single end of
this tenement, so it was quite a family affair, as my Aunty Peggy lived
one up, we lived above her two stairs up, and my Granda lived on the top
flat.
The things that I remember most was the toilet on the
landing and newspaper cut into squares for toilet paper, the water pipes
freezing every winter, and having a bath in the tin bath in front of the
fire. We moved from here when I was about ten when we were allocated a
new house in Ruchazie. This was brand new and was like luxury. At this
time there were lots of childhood diseases on the go, things like polio,
scarlet fever rheumatic fever, dysentery, these are hardly heard of now.
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