Just finished reading "for the glory" the biography of Eric Liddell, the Scottish Olympic runner and Misssionary to China who died in a Japanese POW camp in 1945. A very inspiring read.

Robert

Hughie I was on that trip to the Lake district I remember well the theivery that went on at that wee English shop. It was embarassing to be a Scot. First time I had been on a corridor train also and the first time I had been in England.I was shocked to find it was not that different from Scotland. t...

PT was that the one (Burnfoot Lane) you could see from the foot of Rowanside Terrace.

Robert

George
My grandfather George Cook played for Ardrossan Celtic. He was their goalkeeper at one time.
He was the son of Robert Cook who found the sarcophegus on Castle Hill.

Robert

Thanks for the info Penny Tray, Bert Miller sounds right. Also went to Pat Erskine for short back and sides, whom I much preferred.

Robert

The photo of Princess street across from where the Eglinton Hotel was is where I used to go for a haircut in the 50's. I have forgotten the barbers name. Does anyone remember?

Robert

I Managed a Bank Branch at Whistler for two years in the 70's . At that time it was a quiet village not the International destination it is today.

Robert

Hughie the sand at Harvies Park was behind the back yards of the houses on Eglinton road directly across the Park from Dalry road . Perhaps PT remembers.

Robert

I Remember playing pick-up fitba games there in the early 50s. Once while making a tunnel into the sand behind the houses on Eglinton rd. A woman came out to caution us that a wean had done the same thing the day before and the tunnel had collapsed onto him and he was taken to hospital. I don't know...

My Dad, "Robert Cook aka Bobby born in 1915 at Ardrossan, left school at 14 and served his apprenticeship as a fitter and turner at Ardrossan Dockyard . After 5 years he earned his journeyman ticket and shortly after joined Shell Mex where he rose to a supervisory position. Never had a car and ...

Thanks Penny, however I am mistaken it is Mary Marshall not Mary Milligan. Both these lassies can be seen in the Eglinton school photo 1953 (my class) in the school photos section of Threetowners sorry for the error.
Robert.

The girl at the centre at the back is Christine MacGlauchlin and the girl at the back under the "R" is Mary Millagin.
R.Cook