大象传媒

As I mentioned already ,I lived in a tenement building in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow .
Three flights of stairs with three houses on each flight .
Now ,the entrance to the building was known as 'the common close' .Simply an entrance to the stairway leading to the floors .
The Government ,in its wisdom decided that the close entrances should be strengthened to prevent the building's collapse in the event of an explosion during an air raid .
So, to do this ,they erected a timber frame .Up the walls and along the roof, but in doing so they left a space due to the criss cross building of the beams .
As an adventure it was possible for boys like myself to crawl along between the beams and play at being spies . BUT!And such a big BUT! At the end of the 'close ' there was a landing with steps leading down to the rubbish bins . This was know to us a 'Dunny'. It was a wonderful place for courting couples,lets say 'doing their courting' as they were hidden away (as they thought ) from prying eyes .
We, however laying accross the beams could spy on them at our leisure .
But ,believe me ,if any of them caught us there, we would be in big trouble ,
. So we had to lay there and watch . Suffice to say. it was from this vantage point I received most of my sex education .The courting couples or 'winchers' as we called them taught me and my friends everything we know
Tommy Mac

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