Growing Up In Uddingston.

A Memory of Uddingston.

I grew up in Lynn Walk in Uddingston,in fact I was born in the living room there!I went to St John the Baptists school.My mum Tilly McGhee was the Lollipop lady for many years and was a well known face about Uddingston.I remember being sent to Burrells shop on Bellshill road and going tothe Monday Special it was great fun.When I was a bit older my friend and I used to go to Pacittis cafe at the cross for a hot orange or an ice cream drink they had the best ice cream I have ever tasted!My older sister lived in Old Mill road across from thr Rowantree pub.These flats were over 100 years old and most residents had said they had ghosts including my sister whos cupboards and drawers used to fly open at will and people staying on the couch would report either someone or something trying to suffocate them by pushing their faces into the couch or feeling the couch being lifted off the ground!Another resident in the next close had an old man who used to stand at the bottom of her bed watching her.Does anyone else who lived in these flats have any spooky stories?These were demolished years ago and where they once stood is now The Bank of Scotland car park.I eventually got a house in Crofthead street,next door to where my parents had lived before being given their brand new house in Lynn Walk,my mum said it was like a different world having underfloor heating,an up and down stairs and our very own front and back garden not to mention 3 bedrooms a big change from a pull down bed.I was born in 1969.

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