Hi Kiwi2,
I think you may be a few years older than me, I lived at 144 Househillmuir Road untill 1980 and then at 129 Peat Road untill 2005, I went to St. Roberts in Priesthill and then Bellarmine Sec. I started at St. Roberts in 1960 at 5 years old, just when you where starting at Craigbank Sec. So you would have been wan a they big boys, that we were feart tae talk tae.
As you will no doubt remember Craigbank was seen as one of the better housing areas then, however with over thirty years of council neglect and mismanagement, despite major refurbishment in the 1990's, the place had deteriorated to a point that most of the housing had become hard to let and the council used it as a dumping ground for all sorts of socially challanged tenants. Most of Craigbank has gone and it is being replaced with modern semi detached houses. I will try and get some photies fur you when I an in southnitshill later to day.
I take it that you attended the old Levern primary school, here are a couple of pic of the school courtesy of the Mitchells Collection and a link to the Virtual Mitchells site.
Virtual Mitchell
Hope you enjoy these!
That building was pulled down in the late 70's I think, it had been replaced by a new school in the late 60's early 70's and the old school was used as a community centre for a while. I my be wrong here as I think the old parish church was also next to the school and it may have been the church that was used. The old tin annex was used into the 90's as a day centre for children with learning difficulties needless to say its all gone now. The old school, the new school, the tin annex and the church and the Househill Tavern, which I think went about the time they built the new school. Being a right we scally at that time I bought my first pint in there at the age of 15.
John