SPW056744 SCOTLAND (1938). Kilsyth, general view, showing Stirling Road and Barrwood Quarry. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing west.

41 Mid-Barrwood, where I was born, 1941

This became Duncansfield

The Couches

Site of the new Academy,opened in the 50s

The High Line railway

Moniebrough Bowling Green

The Huts,overspill temporary schools from St Pats and the academy. They were opposite the houses on Stirling Rd

my house

Geordie Beattie lived here across the road in Haughton Ave from my grandfather. George started by driving his first lorry during the day, and driving Alexanders buses in the evening, I can remember getting alift in his Ford V8 Pilot at lunchtime and meeting him in later years in The Gordon Arms Hotel in Banknock,where we had a few wee drams.

This area was called Gilleses Land in the 1881 census, it may be of interest to the Hutchison Baird and Webster families both here and in the USA as they lived next door to one another and intermarried, before most of them moved abroad.

Site of St Pats(The Huts) secondary,I was there in the late fifties early sixties before going to St Modans stallagluffe.

The site in later years of The Colzieum Motor company.(Pate Broons) garage where I started my apprenticeship in 1965.Now a car wash.

The Bings of the Haugh Pits

The spoil heap of the old Barrwood colliery

The curling pond,one of the first in the country.