Summer Rambles

A Memory of Glanderston Dam.

i was brought up in Priesthill in the late 1950/60s and at that time it was quite a new housing scheme and was a great place to stay. My father and some of his friends started a tenants association for the scheme and we had youth clubs and socialist Sunday schools. My memories of Glanderston dam are great as a large group of tenants and their children used to ramble to the dam almost every Sunday in the summer weather permitting. Quite often we went in light rain. We all took back packs with picnic in them and the men carried a large tea urn to the area of the dam that we settled to spend the day. We swam in the dam and none of us ever complained about it being cold!! After all this was a trip away day😊. We would get our sandwiches and hot tea around 1 pm and then a game of rounders after that. Most of the group liked to climb the big hill which seemed like a mountain when you were 8😏. We would go back in the water later then all round the tea urn again for eats before another game. By about 5pm it was time to head back home and we would pack up and head for Nitshill and home. On the way home we always had a stop near one of the farms and watch the animals. I look back and it always seems to be sunny in my memories but I have no doubts there were a few Sunday's when the weather was not so good but who wants to remember them!!
It was such an adventure to do this on a Sunday back in those simpler times however the memories of those rambles have always stayed with me. I have not been back to Glanderston dam since 1970 however I am planning a trip there with my husband and our dog next week weather permitting. I know the great memories will come flooding back but at least they are happy ones!! 🌞

Rosena Alexander formally of Shilton Drive.

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