#STORYOFOURSTREET

I was born, quite a long time ago, in Bowling, a village on the banks of the Clyde, twelve miles from Glasgow and three miles from Dumbarton. Throughout my childhood the village seemed to be unchanging. Most of my friends had parents, and even grandparents, who knew each other as children and had gone to school together.

The village is stretched along a narrow corridor of land between the river and the steeply-wooded hills behind. At the eastern side of the village is the road which takes you down to the harbour and it is here that the Forth and Clyde canal starts. At the western edge of the village lies Littlemill, which in my childhood, had some old houses, the Littlemill