SPW056745 SCOTLAND (1938). Kilsyth, general view, showing Burngreen Park and Howe Road. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-west.

old fire station (1955)

the slaughter house

Our football pitch in the 1950s

Bowling Green

The Miners' Welfare

The old Quoiting ground

The Gas works. Where all the towns energy supplies came from

Old fever hospital.

Saint Patrick's Church.

Band stand on Burn Green

Charles Street

Kingston Road

Main Street

Burnside Street West

Haugh Colliery. Pit No 2. Probably disused by this date

Garrel Burn

Haugh Coke Ovens

Goods train headed by a steam locomotive

Crown Garage and CO-OP funeral directors.

My uncle Peter was the janitor, this was his shed.

My old school (St Pats)and the academy next door.

The Sim family lived here, I wonder what happened to Shiela, my first girlfriend.

Celtic Club - this is where the fair maidens of Kilsyth would congregate at weekends in the hope they could impress the handsome Croy males.

Town Gate - This is as far as the good people of Croy would venture to show pity on the starving peasants of Kilsyth by throwing them scraps of food and the odd caramel wafer. The gate remained closed to prevent the plague spreading from Kilsyth into neighbouring villages, with the exception of Twechar, which was beyond help.