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Elspeth Sinclair Nee McKail
from Spain.
Posted 10 Feb 2006.
At the end of the war my family who had spent nearly three years in Millport returned to Bridgeton, Glasgow and I went to John Street primary which was in Hozier Street off Dalmarnock Road. On Saturday mornings , wearing my best clothes, I went to Miss Paterson's elocution classes held in Cuthbertson's Studios in Sauciehall Street. We had public performances every year in The Lyric Theatre and hired our costumes from Bambers Theatrical Outfitters. Later, when the Glasgow Academy of Dramatic Art opened in the old Atheneum buildings, I went there after school on Thursdays. I used to broadcast on Children's Hour with Auntie Kathleen and once played a little Highland boy with Stanley Baxter as my father. In those days you only had to write to the BBC for an audition if you were twelve years old. At school in Bridgeton I was teased for talking posh and nicknamed "Jolly Hockeysticks" after a character in ITMA, the famous radio show. At the secondary School I used to win The Burns Competition every year run by the Bridgeton Burns Club and had to recite at the winner's concert in the Bridgeton Public Halls.
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