Hi Morag is your aim in life just to show me how my memory is fadeing? lol. Quit seriously though, as you say the colour of the jacket could well have been purple (ugh) and as you say there were two types of braiding. I had the tape.Did that make me a bit dumber? Then I was only a 'B' grader-

<Error 1406> Has anyone else had a problem withthis when trying to add a new programme (In my case Office 2007) I am using a Vista platfoorm with both IE7 and Firefox) after a while the programme stops with a message about this 1406 Error. It does give one a number of choices <Exit>, <Try Again> or ...

Thanks Morag for finding this link and bringing backa flood of memories. I particularly remember sing the song 'Bless Them All' on my last school day which as I remember was filled with good and some bad memories. My memory must be fading a bit but I thought that the school badge looked different bu...

morag wrote:Thats really great, Tony!
Did Senga go to St. Mike's in the '60's? The name is very familiar.
Morag

Yes Morag Senga did go to St Mikes in th 60's

Tony

I was very surprised when I opened my e-mails the other day and found a 'Private Message' to me sent by a visitor to Threetowners. Her name didn't mean anything to me. Apparently this woman had been searching for a long time for her half-sister and half brother. Almost at her wits end she, at last f...

No topic for April?

Tony

Hi Meg
I seem to remember being one of the school kids waving my flag for Elizabeth 1 (please note FIRST if you are a Scotsman. or wasn't too busy blowing up pillarboxes with E2R on them?)
Tony

Hi My dad worked for Lee's Lemonade Factory I was working for 2X half crowns (5/-) Friday for a few hrs and a sat morning for about few hours, really not working but to learn for work and your pocket money. I loved it. Aileen Hi Aileen Just out of curiosity when did your father work for Lee's lemon...

What a tragedy.I sincerely hope that all Threetowners livng near or within the boundaries of the dreadfull inferno have not come to any harm. That of course includes your nearest and dearest. My heart goes out to all affected.
Tony

Stevenston's James Clements wrote in one of his books: was the healthy practice of young men and women, in all seasons, walking, promenading, between two points every Sabbath evening. In Saltcoats the two terminals were the War Memorial at the north end of Hamilton Street and the Shottend of the So...

I always thought the Monkey-walk was exagerated. We used to get into the Melbourn and then stroll down towards Countess St. I never remember chatting up any lassies; don't really remember seeing many lassies. It seemed like it was a male fantasy that there were dozens of lassies there to be chatted...

Our logs say two posts from this topic have been deleted in the past 24 hours by the original posters. Danmac and Morag. There have been no deletions by moderators - I've looked back to the start of the month. If we had deleted a post we'd not discuss it in an open forum. see our Guidelines and Inf...