Tommy McDonald, of Dennistoun, shares his memories for our I Grew Up in Glasgow column. Share your stories and photos by getting in touch with Times Past - email ann.fotheringham@glasgowtimes.co.uk

Which street did you live on? Home to our family in the 40s and 50s was Dennistoun, just off Dunchattan Street. A lot of the tenements still had outside toilets in those days. Whitevale Baths was nearby, where you went for a bath (the younger kids shared a big tin bath in the house.)

Glasgow Times: Fishing in Alexandra Park

Describe your house: Everything was spotless. Me and my older brother stayed with my gran in the same close, my other siblings – all six – slept three to a bed. That was common in those days. We all had lots to do – a goal was painted on the Duke Street Hospital wall - McIntosh Street was a dead end at our end - so we played football. All the streets played each other. The girls played skipping ropes, hopscotch and bat rounders, a sort of baseball-type game with a tennis racket. We shared roller skates, as we couldn’t all afford them.

Glasgow Times: CHILDREN WITH THEIR PARENTS PLAYING IN ALEXANDRA PARK , DENNISTOUN , GLASGOW STAFF PIC TAKEN BY ARTHUR KINLOCH 29/6/1964

What school did you go to? Golfhill Primary.

Favourite local cinema? We went to the ABC Minors at Dennistoun Picture House on Armadale Street.

Favourite local shop? Dennistoun was like a little village as there was every shop you needed – two cafes, Lena’s and the Piccadilly; Eva’s chip shop; three dairies, two grocer’s, four newsagents, Shaws family bakery and Candy Kate’s sweetshop with its penny, tu’penny, and thru’penny trays. There were two (unofficial) bookmakers and a small tabernacle in Fisher Street where you got a cup of tea and a bun on a Tuesday and a Thursday.

Best thing about growing up in Glasgow? Everybody had relatives living nearby and lots of friends – every street was a hub of activity. Everyone got on. Didn’t matter if you had a three-wheeler bike, two wheels, odd wheels and one brake - everyone was treated as equals. There were plenty of big works back then, from Templeton’s Carpet Factory to the Parkhead Forge. There were loads of machining places too on Dunchattan Street.

Happiest childhood memory: Fishing up the canal, or in the pond at Alexandra Park, with a small net and a jam jar, collecting tiddlers. Happy times.