Jim, first time for a while on the PC. Many happy returns! 73's and 88's to Rita and all the family
Margaret xxxooo

Does anyone remember the Marchi family who owned the Regal Cafe in Countess Street?
Margaret

In the ASH BMD's around 1911 some of my ancestors died at Springvale hospital. Didn't notice any births there!
Margaret

Many Happy Returns, Murray.
I remember the day you were born when I took the bus to Kilmarnock to collect your sister and take her back to Saltcoats so that your mum and dad could go to the hospital.
old auntie xxxooo

There was a story going around at the time that Hess was looking for Arran , home of his friend the Duke of Hamilton.
Don't know how true this was. Margaret

Really liked the lullaby, brought a tear because it reminded me of my mother's "party piece", The Maiden's Prayer".
Margaret. Keep up the good work!

Susan Around 1946 or 47 I was at a birthday party in one of those semi-detached houses but cannot remember if it was the one next to the church. The birthday girl was Cissie Taylor, daughter of Maggie,(nee Lennox) Taylor. I believe Maggie was related to my mother. Maggie was an expert seamstress, mu...

The town we lived in when we first came to Canada (Lachute) had no English library. Every 2 weeks or so a yellow school bus fitted with shelves of books visited town. (I believe from McGill). Once, the girl in front of me checking out her books sounded Scottish so I said 'where are you from?' She sa...

PT , Morag,
Been there , done that. Check old posts on 3T Home page. Never did learn to type, and too lazy to start now!
Margaret

PT, I've been enjoying 3T's for many years. It used to be at topica.com and Yahoo, I think.Can't remember how long ago I posted a walk down the town in an earlier year than Susan. Unrecognisable now. Margaret

Yes, born no.38, 1931, Michael McCann in attendance.Left 1959 to live in Thurso, then to Quebec 1967.
At one time there was another Hughes family at no.36, no relation. Margaret

PT, Thanks for the memories. I remember the Fullerton brothers. We often saw them carry their boat over to the shore.I had remembered it as a canoe. Maybe that was before the war. My father died 1939 after a long illness (cancer). He was visited regularly by the Rev. Symington and by the nuns who ha...