Springfield
Road
Springfield Road looking north towards London Road, with Helenvale Street high rise flats in the
background, the trees to the right is where Riverside
Secondary School used to be..
Same view looking north, all the houses are gone and
Castle Grey Skulls oops sorry Celtic Park's new stand ( Rangers End ) can
be seen.
Springfield Road diagonally opposite the old Riverside School, this is
what we used to call the Daisy Park. In my day there was railings
circumferencing the park and my Ma use to bring my sisters and I with a
shawl to sit on and have a picnic or run around with a ball.
We did the same thing at Richmond Park and the Glasgow Green
There was a few parks known locally as Daisy Parks, to do with the
profusion of daisies peeping through the grass. The yellow dandelions were
known as pee-the-beds.
Some Brigtonians will tell you the real Daisy Park was in Greenhead
Street opposite Greenlodge Terrace,
and who am I to argue!
