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- Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:28 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: About Bob Bryden
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2097
Re: About Bob Bryden
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...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:55 am
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: mv lion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3832
Re: mv lion
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 &...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:22 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: mv lion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3832
Re: mv lion
You’re welcome to use it. Anyone know what’s happened to the MV Lion since cessation of its Ardrossan service ?
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 11:19 am
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Lemons and Household Tips
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8681
Re: Lemons and Household Tips
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...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 4:13 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Barr Place/Kilmahew Street/Montgomerie Street
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15170
Re: Barr Place/Kilmahew Street/Montgomerie Street
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...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 3:59 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Barr Place/Kilmahew Street/Montgomerie Street
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15170
Re: Barr Place/Kilmahew Street/Montgomerie Street
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...
- Thu Nov 21, 2019 2:35 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Barr Place/Kilmahew Street/Montgomerie Street
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15170
Re: Barr Place/Kilmahew Street/Montgomerie Street
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
Bob
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 3:26 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: ICI Ardeer Staff Photos
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2651
Re: ICI Ardeer Staff Photos
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...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:09 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: ICI Ardeer Staff Photos
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2651
ICI Ardeer Staff Photos
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 ...
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:34 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Location of Cowie Family Home in South Beach road
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8327
Re: Location of Cowie Family Home in South Beach road
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...
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 3:55 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Location of Cowie Family Home in South Beach road
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8327
Re: Location of Cowie Family Home in South Beach road
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 ) .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/
Bob
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:23 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Location of Cowie Family Home in South Beach road
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8327
Re: Location of Cowie Family Home in South Beach road
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...