The Milton

A Memory of Crosshill.

I was born and brought up in the Milton. Lived at 2 Milton Rows. I can remember going to Crossshill School. Miss Foote and Miss Page were two of the teachers. I remember well the Miners Galas, the potato picking, and what seemed to be long warm summers when us children played ball on the large end wall of the houses, much to Granny Renton's disgust. We also played paldies and skipping and Tig. I remember the wash houses and how we always had soup on wash days as it took my mother all morning to do the washing in the huge wash tub. I remember too when the Second World War finished and we had a big bonfire at the back of the houses.
My sister walked down passed between what was Dr Sinclair's house and Anderson's pub and viewed the new houses there now. We had a living room with a sink and a bed recess one bedroom and an outside toilet. The linoleum shone and my mum made lovely treacle scones on a tin over the fire. The lighting was gas. Every Saturday night we had a bath in a tin bath in front of the fire.