Hi Hugh, At the moment I feel fairly normal with no obvious indication that I’ve any serious life threatening illness. A senior palliative care nurse in Palmerston North Hospital referred me to our local Hospice here In Wanganui. Since coming home from hospital I’ve had a visit from a Hospice lady w...

I was interested to note the ultimate fate of the MV Lion in 2004 as the ship which brought my family & I to New Zealand in 1963 was the former Shaw Savill liner the Southern Cross & it suffered the same fate in 2003 & was scrapped at the same location. I looked up photos of that event &...

You’re welcome to use it. Anyone know what’s happened to the MV Lion since cessation of its Ardrossan service ?

I don’t need to buy lemons as I’ve a very prolific tree right outside my lounge window. However another excellent ant deterrent is Apple cider Vinegar- ideally DYC Brand but I don’t know its availability outside New Zealand. I’ve tried other brands but don’t find them as effective. I have a couple o...

Penny Tray, I certainly wasn’t born at home after the disaster of my brother’s birth on 25.1.1949. We were both born in Ayrshire Central Hospital at Irvine. Billy’s birth was a month overdue AND a breech delivery. The incompetent doctors supposedly looking after Mum insisted she wasn’t due for anoth...

I was only 2 years old when we moved up to 3 Churchill Drive so was too young to recall it myself. Bob Bob I don’t know about where you lived previously but I do remember you staying in Churchhill Drive I stayed in Whitecraig Road. You stayed next to the lad Wilson who stayed in the 1000 house We w...

Probably a long shot but does anyone who remembers my family living in Barr Place recall what No. we lived at ? I was only 2 years old when we moved up to 3 Churchill Drive so was too young to recall it myself.

Bob

I've no doubt you're right about the espionage potential of photography at Ardeer during the war years but the war ended in 1945 & Mum didn't leave until 1947. The mention of your grandfather was interesting & I'm assuming his passing wasn't in the canteen where Mum was in charge as there wa...

Just been looking at the Staff Photos on Threetowners & a wee bit disappointed there are none for the period 1938-1947 when my mum worked there. She was Helen Kellie back then & initially worked in the office & latterly was in charge of one of the staff canteens. She left Ardeer in 1947 ...

Thanks for posting the photo Hughie. I only wish Mum was still alive to see it. If she was she'd be 106 now. Mum told us some interesting stories of her 10 years as cook there 1928-1938.One that sticks in my mind is one where she had a pheasant to cook for the family's dinner but when she went to do...

Penny Tray wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2019 11:18 pm The photographs in the following link may be of interest: -

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/4449964/

Just checked that link Penny but the photos have gone & the text remains. A short while ago I got a good aerial photo of 17 South Crescent using Google Earth Pro ( free ) .

Bob

Sorry for my very belated reply. Since having an Ultra Fast Fibre Broadband connection installed a year or so back I’ve been concentrating more on You Tube amongst other things. Anyway I have Google Earth Pro on my computer so went into it & inserted 17 South Crescent , Ardrossan in the search b...