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The walk to school, one of my early recollections is walking from Dalskeith Avenue Ferguslie to St Mary’s Primary school every morning mum always gave me the bus fare to school but our little group of friends Charles Taylor and Robert Pope always walked the distance and headed to the local bakers on Well Street for Cake ends we called them.

For several years we always walked by Woodside Cemetery, we known about the witches supposed to have been buried under the gates, we always used to dare each other to go and touch the gates. Took along time for anyone to touch them LOL then it was climb the gates and go over into the cemetery, one day the gates were actually open and me and Charles Taylor who stayed on Dalskeith Road actually went into the cemetery walked all the way up to some structure that was near the railway line, peeped in side the old lock on the door saw something and ran for dear life, took many years for me to build up the courage to go there again

Hi Arrmand

That would have been a good walk from Dalskeith Avenue to Queen street or Maxwellton Road whichever street the school was in when you went there. I used to walk up George street to West school and I thought that was a long walk. Maybe if I had bus fares to spend it would have been different more to spend in Campbell's. Alice

Hi Armand - my walk to school was from Well Street to Carbrook Street. Didn't know about the witches and the gates of the cemetery, but never wanted to go inside Woodside. The teachers told us that if we were near the cemetery when a hearse was going in then the girls were to give a curtsy and the boys should take off their caps. No way were we to try and skip across in front of the hearse or funeral cars.

There was a wee sweety shop at the side of the cemetery that sold penny drinks of what I can now describe as coloured water but we thought it smashing then.

Quote"walked all the way up to some structure that was near the railway line" thats the Electrictity supply box to the Crematorium

Quote: Electricity supply box to the Crematorium

I always wondered what that was, and it baffled me as to why the people there would put a big green mask inside the Electricity box, it scared the shit out of me and Charles Taylor, we never ran so fast in our life's.