Saltcoats Article

[westendcafe]

Do you recognise Saltcoats from this article?

http://danielgraywriter.com/2014/10/02/ ... saltcoats/

[Vivc113]

Sad article.

There is no heart in communities now.

Someone was saying that to me last week when we were discussing the old Bingo hall. It was the centre of the ladies' world at one time. The Grange Bingo I mean !!!

[5eulbdog7]

Sad article.

There is no heart in communities now.

Someone was saying that to me last week when we were discussing the old Bingo hall. It was the centre of the ladies' world at one time. The Grange Bingo I mean !!!

Well, the smoking ban killed the "bingo" and gambling can ruin peoples lives so its not that bad its no longer there.

[Vivc113]

Yes. Smoking ban killed a lot of things, but that isn't the point.

It was a core evening for the ladies. When they could get out and have fun. The community had a heart.

Where is the "heart" these days?

[5eulbdog7]

Sorry Viv I always felt sorry for those women who were smoking themselves to death at the bingo. Maybe they did have a wee community and perhaps escaped from a sad life for a wee while but its not something to be encouraged.

[Vivc113]

Fair enough !!!

[morag]

A school my kids went to you had to 'volunteer' hours..is that not oxymoronic or something? Anyway, they had bingo nights you had to attend, could hardly see your feet for the smoke and it was men and women. Never understood the bingo thing, had it been 'wine night' or Cluedo night...I'm your gal..professor Plum, in the..

[Vivc113]

Never liked bingo myself. Only ever seemed to win maltesers and soup.

Wonder if that bingo hall in Irvine is still around ? The one at Townhead ?

[westendcafe]

I had not heard of Otto Kiep and his connection with Saltcoats until I read the above article. A quick look on Wiki tells his story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kiep

Does anyone know where the house was that he was born in?

[brian f]

Yes. Smoking ban killed a lot of things, but that isn't the point.

It was a core evening for the ladies. When they could get out and have fun. The community had a heart.

Where is the "heart" these days?

I must agree with you Viv, bingo was a very important part of their life and kept them mentally alert .
Higher taxes imposed on bingo halls and the rise of online gaming such as BINGO also contributed to the closures.
As a young teens the first thing we would do getting off the bus at Countess street was to play bingo in the wee place just down the road from the bus stop.Saltcoats still had a wee buzz about the place when i was up a couple of years ago.

A good post Westendcafe.

[morag]

Well, sigh..my mum volunteered for the 'old folks' even when she was one. Even 'volunteered' me too, to make posters etc. Don't think she ever played bingo in her life, too busy taking care of oap's, never questioned their right to do what gave them happiness. Canny afford ma bus fare..where's the bingo..

[brian f]

I had not heard of Otto Kiep and his connection with Saltcoats until I read the above article. A quick look on Wiki tells his story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kiep

Does anyone know where the house was that he was born in?

PENNY TRAY , posted this but to my knowledge, nobody knows the house he was born in .Shields cottage ?
Re: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
Postby Penny Tray » Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:13 am

20 JULY 1944

PLOT TO ASSASSINATE ADOLPH HITLER
OTTO CARL KIEP

Whilst his parents, Imperial Consul Johann Nikolaus Kiep and Charlotte Rottenburg or Kiep, were on holiday, Otto Carl Kiep was born in Saltcoats on the 7th of July 1886.

As Chief of the Reich Press Office, Otto was involved in the '20 JULY 1944' plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia.

After his arrest in 1944, he was sentenced to death, and one month after the plot's failure, on 23 August 1944, he was hanged at Plotzensee Prison in Berlin.
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long a we remember it.
Penny Tray.