neil pendreich
from strathaven lanarkshire.
Posted 16 Oct 2006.
Our family holidays in the late 50's were most often spent in glen finglass in the trossachs - the big wicker trunk would br well packed and it and the family would take the train to callander where we would be met and taken up the glen - we stayed in quite a few of the houses in the glen over the years and very often the occupant would have decanted to a little hut in order to let their house - i still visit the area to this day with my grandchildren but a lot of changes have occurred in the last 50 years - the railway station in callander is long gone and the glen was dammed in the 60's the resulting loch being used to complement glassgow's water supply and quite a few of the little cottages are now holiday homes or occupied by commuters who work in either glasgow or edinburgh - gone are the shepherds and the gamekeepers etc all a little sad but times move on - anyone else with memories of the area
