I recall Eglintons blazer being brown with gold badge which I believe had a castle or turret on it probably signifying
Ardrossan castle.

Robert

I remember this path well walking home from the scouts every Friday night. As Hughie says the path seemed about 8 feet wide. Seemed to me it was tarmac and even had curbs on each side but could be wrong. The bridge over the railway to cannon hill had I believe the last gas light in Ardrossan (on the...

Yes George I remember Miss Mclure also Miss McIlwraith Miss Ray Miss Lavallee. Like you I was third generation at Winton. Why were they all Miss? Didnt teachers get married in those days? Being much younger than you I started in 1946. My earliest memories of Winton were taking silver paper to school...

Rea was my aunt and R.Evans the photographer my uncle. I used to go to Reas shop as a kid and spent the morning folding used brown paper and rolling up string in the back room so it could be re-used. I also used to go the the shop across the street where my aunt Meg (McKillop) would give me a poke o...

Born at 160 Glasgow Street as was my younger brother. Two elder brothers born in Kilwinning. Wee shuggies grandmother must have lived up the same close as us.

Count me in for Ardrossan. My Dad was an Ardrossanite and my mother was from Stinson. They used to banter back and forth on which was the better of the two and why. Saltcoats was the place to go for entertainment. When I was a kid we used to say if there was no Ardrossan or Stevenson there would be ...

Frank Brand (the son of owners of the Toll) was a friend of mine in school and in the scouts. I still have a few letters from him sent after I came to Canada. I remember stopping in to the toll shop frequently on my way home to Rowanside terrace to buy sweeties. The last letter I got from the son wa...

Anne Evans is my cousin and still lives in Stevenson. Her Husband owns the shop that the post office is in in Stevenson. Anne would be about aged 71 now so assuming she was 7 when the photo was taken that would mean the photo would be taken in about the mid 40s. My uncle RT Evans was the photographe...

I remember Eddie Mcintyre and I going to the prizegiving and neither of us had a flower. As we were going down Dalry Rd. we decided to go into Harveys Park and climb over the back dyke of one of the houses on Eglinton Rd. where we pinched two roses and ran. Though the roses were beauts I never felt ...

Thanks for posting that research narrative. My Aunt Irene (Georges Sister) went to Burma in the late 80s to try and find his grave to no avail. Even the Commonwealth Graves Commission could not help. George joined the territorials in the late 30s as it paid a couple of bob a week as I am sure lots o...

Like you Penny I remember marching from Kilmenny Terrace with the Ist Ardrossan Boy Scouts to the war memorial in Glasgow St.,. The last time I did that I felt very proud to be the flag bearer. That memorial means a lot to me as my uncles name "George Cook " is on it. When I was back in 20...

Georges story about conkers reminded me of playing "milktops" particularly at Eglinton school. Simple game of throwing the cardboard disk milk top towards the wall and whomever was closest got to keep all the milktops thrown. The milktops were carried about on a string threaded through the...