Nostalgic memories of Caldercruix's local history

Share your own memories of Caldercruix and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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I grew up with my family in the prefabs in Moss Ave. these were days when you could leave your door unlocked and everyone knew one another. As children we played in the street , there were few cars around we played from morning till dusk remembering some of the Mothers coming out to join in a game of jumping ropes, peever or hide n seek , I had 2 pet rabbits and used to pick dandelions from an elderly neighbours ...see more
as the oldest member of the garvie clan .I thought I would leave my memories of the family on the Internet so that our grandchildren could always look back and see where our past started. the family consisted of Mary ,Theresa,Charles Helen and Lawrence .They started of in lonriggend before moving to cruix.my mum Mary married John Sloan from clarkston he worked in the signal box in airdrie train station .My earliest ...see more
I was born in1950 we lived above the family chip shop which also had a sit in area this is now where the betting shop is next was mcgills sweet shop then McCormack the newsagents which was a wooden hut it burnt down I thing it was around 1959 it burnt down one day and we search for coins and found a few Next shop was mcgills wool shop round the corner was a barbers and brethren hall we sold the cafe in1960 as my mum had to look after my gran