Gavin Miller Cartoons
The wonderful cartoons of Gavin Miller's memories of growing up in Clydebank
All drawings are the copyright of Gavin Miller
This would be the front piece to my opus
This happened all the time
I used to steal my sister's skates and bomb it down Graham Avenue on a wee daud o' wid...eeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaa
Aaah Clydebank youth, so inquisitive and full of adventure... lets build a tree fort, what could go wrong?
Ach, man I'm starvin'...
Aaah the Mighty Titan hard at work...
Oh yeah baby, steering a bogie down Graham Ave hill wi a wee bit of string tied to the front axle. Magic days unless you were a new mummy wi no wheels left on yir pram, that ye left outside.
Gavin, why is the side a yir face so rid??
Pretty sure we all had something from the yard in our house.
Aff tae sunny "exotic" Roseneath fur the Clydebank Fair... woooo hooooo
Mums sure were tough
See... this happened a lot in the yards... a lot. Now I'm thinking it wouldn't be allowed in South Korea or Japan. It doesn't translate I guess. Ah good times, good times.
Used to make "tomahawks" out of soup cans we bashed around a bit of wood or branch, then chase each other like madmen. Good times, good times.
Every time I think of it, it gets steeper...
Things were tougher back then...
Yes, yes, yes...we all remember the good old survival swim tests... bronze, silver and gold. I thought it was great, the only "legal" time you got to jump in water fully clothed and not get a battering from your mum.
See... I think this is what the youth of Clydebank are missing these days. A healthy respect and fear that we received in the good old shipyard.
Aye, just because when you were 10, you could skoot down Graham Ave sitting on an auld roller skate and some wid, doesn’t mean ye can skate board when yir fifty. Ah don’t bounce like ah used to... does not translate.
The Friday night when it was your turn to go to McNaughtens fish shop for 4 fish suppers and 2 extra chips...
The guid auld days when yir da could fix his own motor out on the street and you were so chuffed when he let you help him.
Here’s one for you... I ask my kids this one from time to time. If you were stuck on a desert island with only one thing to eat all the time, what would it be? Mine was my mum’s ham bone soup ... crazy the things you miss!!!!
This was a perfectly honest request back in the bad old days. Hardly anyone would bat an eye.
When ah lived in Clydebank, this wiz mah wurld...
"careful, hen... that ladders awfy... "
It's a little known fact that J Brown's tried to horn into the sewing machine business but it didn't take off...
pre iPhone fun .....back in the day
The "free" vet behind the Hub... ??
Aaaaaaah, the guid auld days, when yir mammie luvved ye!!
Most people would call this a splinter but we call it a ...??
Always wondered why it was called this...?
The luuvly smell of fresh dried laundry....
Way back when... even yir grannie could jump off the bus going up Kilbowie hill, it was that steep!
Bankies and their love of losing small animals/burdz
Aaah the pleasures of going for a Sunday drive up the Loch Lomond road, in a car with no a/c (pre 1970s) my dad drove like Lewis Hamilton along that windy, twisty road... CAR SICKNESS eeech!!
