Changing Face of the Area around the Church
As mum and I were leaving the church on Sunday we stopped to look at the building work taking place around St Oswald ’ s .
The library , above the shops , was managed by South Lanarkshire Council and has been left lying derelict for many years .
I remember being taken to both the Castlemilk Rd facility as well as the building next to my primary school on Bankhead Road , opposite Mitchell ’ s Farm .
My memory is the silence at Bankhead Library and of struggling with huge , weighty reference books taking them to a table so that I could flick through the pages and admire the tropical fish from around the world . In later life my dad bought me a double fish tank for my flat and set it up for me . Watching the fish is very relaxing . However I seem to be able to kill them off so the tank is presently empty .
I hope when the library has been converted into flats there will be a show-flat so I can go and do my nosey !
The other memory was that the block of flats opposite the church was previously The STATE Picture house , then County Bingo Hall . As a family we went along on a regular basis . As the titles finished rolling the evening ended with the National Anthem ( not now-a-days ). The only films I remember seeing were James Bond 007 and The Greatest Story Ever Told ( which is appropriate for this time of the churches calendar ) but there must have been many more over the years .
Do you remember visiting the STATE , ( see back page ) or popping next door to Robbs Café for ice-cream or coffee ( sitting at the round tables )?
garage and Mr McLean ’ s hardware store . I look forward to receiving your memories for future magazines .
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There was the Co-op and Massey grocer ; Bobby Broadley Newsagent ; the dairy where you could buy loose butter ; Malcolm ’ s chemist ; fish shop and butchers ;
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