Actually it wisnae aw a bed o' roses back then. Ah left in 1955 and there was trouble with some of the young yins up in the Mayfield Housing Scheme even then. Nothing like the drugs problem today but they shifted a number of people out of the slums at the top of Raise Street, (just before Argyle Roa...

My best wishes for your neice too! Dreadful disease - I have watched a couple of friends go through it. Couple of interesting notes :- a naturopath I know has the theory that it is a re-occurence of glandular fever just as shingles is a re-occurance of the dormant chicken pox virus. Also - to get ba...

I remember the bauxite mine concerned up by the pre fabs. I was only a wee boy of 8 when I left Saltcoats in 1955 but I can vividly remember the sloping entrance and the bogies and for some reason or other I can remember a danger sign related to high tension electricity. I am still curious as to whe...

Ma wife's so ugly Ah take her everywhere I go - easier than kissing her goodbye!
She has a kind face - the kind ye crack wallnuts oan!

" If Ah hud a dug wi a face as ugly as yours Ah wid shave its bum and teach it tae walk backwards"

Interesting link Hugh. We think my father Alexander McAllister may have been the 17th student from the left in the back row in the 1927/28 Academy school photo in the archives section. He would have been 13 or so at the time. We have a studio picture of him taken when he was ten in his Academy unifo...

Incidetally in case you are wondering about the Di like hair (which ye wirnie) she is the same star sign as Di and that distinctive mass of thick hair is often found in Cancerian women. And Cancerians and Scorpios are attracted - which is why Charles probably agreed tae winch wi' Di in the first pla...

Catherine Belle wrote:

calleytwo wrote:Now when I think of it one of the many cars I had in younger days was a 1959 Ford Popular. That was the absolute most old fashioned car built in the world at the time -

Did it look like this, Wee Ali?
1959 Ford Popular

Aye - that's the wan! Wee Ali

Now when I think of it one of the many cars I had in younger days was a 1959 Ford Popular. That was the absolute most old fashioned car built in the world at the time - made the love Bug look modern! (BTW how did it ever get called the love bug? - Ever tried any shennanigans in the poky wee seat in ...

Catherine Belle wrote:

harrysteell wrote:What car, I still have the horse and cart, its cheaper to run than the automobile, Gee, Up. I am only one horse power.

I'll trade you my car for your horse, Harry.

Aw yoor jist sayin that cause ye cannae pit sump oil oan yer rhubarb! Wee Ali

Thanks Catherine. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the storage side of things) The Holden is the only collectable car we have. Gone are the days when I had 9 Armstrong Siddeley's at a time and a place to keep them. Or later, two Fiat Topolinos, 3 Suzuki Fronte concept cars, One Siddeley Limosene an...

My first car was a 1935 Austin 7 tourer. I have no pictures of it and I would dearly love to have another one of those little cars. Our latest car - after an absence of some years wothout a collectable car is the 1960 FB Holden ute below with my one and only ten year old daughter Bonnie leaning on i...