The Airdrie Page

Please note: This post is no longer relevant.
Further to my previous post regarding setting up an exclusive area for authors to contribute to The Airdrie Page Schemes Project, this is now available and a screenshot can be viewed below of the design of this area of the site.

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So, for all you budding authors, there no excuse and now you can contribute to the site by submitting an overview of where you live in the town. Don’t worry about the technical aspects of placing your entry, just send details (as requested previously) and all will be revealed.

One Response to “Airdrie Schemes info”

1. Janie Says:
   January 31st, 2010 at 12:11 am

   We lived in the prefabs in Meadowside Place, Clarkston, Airdrie until I was 5 years old. We then emigrated to Shangri-La on the other side of the track – Craigneuk! Brand new house, 3 bedrooms and a wee ‘den’ under the stairs in the hall. Pavements and roads were still being tarred and dividing fences between gardens were non-existent! The CRAIGNEUK PARK was situated at the bottom of our street. And what a place it was!! When we first moved there, the park had a PARK KEEPER! The football park was an absolute no-go area. We kids took a picnic there (diluted welfare orange and pieces n jam) only to be scared off by the PARK KEEPER! The trees bordering Carlisle Road were part of a garden which had pathways and flower beds and was surrounded by a fence.
   Heather grew profusely on the boggie peat and local men made many
   trips wheeling barrows filled of this rich soil to their gardens. We kids made dens in the pits the men had dug! We also spent HOURS playing ‘up the glen’! this is now Petersburn housing estate.
   The Froggie, The Black Hills, Borelands Wood Yard, The Scrap Yard, all part of the weel kent places of the Craigneuk Wean of the 50’s/60’s xx

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