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- Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:23 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Down The Bath Rocks
- Replies: 7
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Re: Down The Bath Rocks
no i was never in the cottage but my husband tommy murphy was there all the time as a boy, harry england lost a leg in ww1
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:18 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Glebelands
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2441
Re: Glebelands
when i went to st., mary,s during the war italian prisoners of war were digging a victory garden at the glebe cannon o,conner would tell us off for being there and yelling at the prisoners
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:22 pm
- Forum: Family Research (Genealogy) - Guest Posting Allowed.
- Topic: Oilskin Workers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5314
Re: Oilskin Workers
had a friend rose mathieson worked at the oilskin works that was in the 1940,s had a raincoat that came from there cost me 5shillings
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:05 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Photo Album
- Topic: Some current pics of ICI
- Replies: 51
- Views: 22421
Re: Some current pics of ICI
i used to work in the wire shop jock mccoll was the foreman, then in the gaslers and on to the black powder, those were the days.
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:56 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Down The Bath Rocks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4420
Re: Down The Bath Rocks
you will see harry england mentioned he was my late husband,s grandfather. joan murphy
- Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:17 pm
- Forum: Recipes - Mostly Scottish
- Topic: soda bread
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13782
rolls
does any one have a recipe for the rolls we used to by at howies the bakers i tell my american friends about them but they dont know what i am talking about .t5hanks joan
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:35 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Saltcoats Community Council Meeting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4182
Re: Saltcoats Community Council Meeting
need to do something about the shore front etc., its a disgrace , during ww2 and on into the 60,s it was great what ever happend?
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:15 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Scottish Pictures.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2781
Re: Scottish Pictures.
does any one know what happenedto paddy,s market in glasgow got many agood bargain there?
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:34 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Photos of Scotland
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1723
Re: Photos of Scotland
wonderful pictures makes makes me wish iwas there.
- Tue Sep 21, 2010 7:02 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Photo Album
- Topic: 25 Windmill Street Saltcoats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11013
Re: 25 Windmill Street Saltcoats
i think they were cousinsthe grandfather mccallum had a horse and cart for delivering the coal the horse was a clydsdale
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:42 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Photo Album
- Topic: 25 Windmill Street Saltcoats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11013
Re: 25 Windmill Street Saltcoats
forgot to mention my friend georgie mccallum and her brothers and sisters lived on the top floor of 25 windmill st and her granda mccallum the coal man lived on the bottom flat ,do you remember them?
- Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:57 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Photo Album
- Topic: 25 Windmill Street Saltcoats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11013
Re: 25 Windmill Street Saltcoats
the house of ill repute was the marigold hotel and abie stern owned it he lived there most of the time i lived at 47 windmill st