Thanks for posting those photos Alex: did your Flickr tour, which brought back some memories; haven't hung about that area since around 1970, and even then I got chased!
It reminded me of the allotments that used to be there, against the railway line at the junction of Neilston Avenue and Glenmuir Drive. If you went under the railway via the main bridge in your photos there was a spot where travelling folk used to camp up, roughly where Kennishead Road and Glen Moriston Road now meet; got chased by them as well!
Seeing the photos of Burnbrae Primary reminded me of a band I used to hang about with who called themselves variously Glass Onion and Death of Creation, who practiced and played in Burnbrae: Nicky McEwan, lead guitar; Nat McGhee, rhythm guitar; Andy Ramsay, bass guitar; and an unknown drummer, although I painted an apocolyptic landscape on his bass drum cover. I remember one gig in Burnbrae where I was acting as some sort of roadie; after the gig, we got chased.....
Can you remember the old tunnel behind the Plots?
Pretty sure there used to be two,one got filled in leaving the one that had Scojo,Cas +Belldo's graffiti on it (that must have been there near 20 years)
Did the travellers park on the old spare ground behind the 'kingy' ?
Don't remember any tunnels, johnmcn - did they go under the railway where the station is now? They must have been a well-kept secret in my time as a kid in Priesthill (1964-68). Only started hanging out there again briefly as a teenager in the early '70s.
You've got me stumped with the 'kingy' too; was that anything to do with the old bridge with no sides which crossed the Brock Burn a wee bit further up the road? Is it still there?
Yeah pretty sure i remember a tunnel just down a bit from where the station is now.I remember you could see the outline of it from Kennesihead rd,just the outer stonework because it had been filled in with red ash so stood out.If you rummaged about through the bushes you could probably find it..
The Kingy was the king swing just along from the old bridge,a big tree long gong.Think you can just make out the clearing if you stand at the 'new' park...
Ahh the memories,jumping on and swinging maybe 30' high crapping yourself,then as you return someone shouts "boardie" and 6 or 7 people jump on crushing your nads ;D good fun,shame something like that would be fenced off and signposts put up nowadays
The Kingy was the king swing just along from the old bridge,a big tree long gong.Think you can just make out the clearing if you stand at the 'new' park...
Ahh the memories,jumping on and swinging maybe 30' high crapping yourself,then as you return someone shouts "boardie" and 6 or 7 people jump on crushing your nads
Sounds like a hoot; we had a similar swing in Househill Park, across the Levern Water.
Anyway, yep, that sounds just about right for the location; I'll have to take a wander along there.
No pretty sure it was very similar to the present one further down but smaller due to the line of the hill,well i assume it was similar going by the stone work cause it was filled in...
You've got me thinking i'm going senile now
Behind the plots is where the best brambles grew and when the rhubarb was out of season ( ) we picked those along the line so pretty sure about it (or was anyway ) and yeah we got lifted by the police for doing that and got dragged up to a hearing in the central station
It's roughly around where i put the red circle,and i've just noticed the line of trees i disrupted there,maybe by the filling in..Might be a better chance of seeing part of it in the priesty end...
now i'll need to ask my dad when i see him next week to make sure i'm not going mad
Did the band play anywhere else or was it just locally?
They never really went any further, but Nicky McEwan had some success with Frenzy later on. I met him in the mid-1980s when I worked in Pollok Post Office, Haughburn Road, and he worked in the adjoining Sorting Office. He didn't want to talk about it.
Never did hear any more of Nat McGhee, but he could play a really mean country blues on acoustic guitar.
Never heard any more of Andy Ramsay either, until I read he was the guy abducted on Berryknowes Road last year.......
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) we picked those along the line so pretty sure about it (or was anyway 
