I Grew Up in Glasgow: 'At secondary I discovered boys - happy days...'

Describe your house: I was classed as ‘posh’ at school as I had an inside toilet.

Which school did you go to? Thorntree Primary in Greenfield. I loved school. My best pal was Moira Thomson (now Da Costa ), the funniest girl in the class. We are still good friends and she still cracks me up. Our favourite teacher was Miss Finlayson. She had lived in New Zealand and taught us poetry and traditional Maori poi dancing. We made the pois out of wool stuffed with socks. At secondary, Eastbank Academy, I discovered boys, happy days.

Favourite cinema? The State on Shettleston Road. The first film I saw was Zulu. I pretended to be 16 to see Helga, which included a scene where a woman gave birth - quite traumatic for a 14-year-old.

Maureen Leonard, nee Gault

Favourite local shop: The wee shop at the bottom of our street, Bill’s. I used to get my play piece there before going to school and one time I lost my money so Bill gave me my play piece for nothing and wouldn’t hear of me giving him the money back. On a Saturday, my dad took me into Lewis’s department store and bought me pencils and paper - I loved stationery. Then we’d go for a plate of chips and a hot orange.

Where did you go dancing? The Electric Gardens, Joanna’s, the Savoy. I loved 70s music. I worked in a marine engineering firm and my friends, Helen Hagan, Sandra Ferns and Jean Rankin and I would go to Lauder’s after work. I met my husband Allan there. He worked at the Apollo which was great as I got to see all the bands for nothing.

Happiest childhood memory: Waking up one Christmas morning and getting a French telephone. It was a little blue thing with an old-fashioned receiver. I felt like a film star. I was the youngest in the family and always got spoiled rotten.

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