Some things I remember !

[morag]

Stevenston shore had a beautiful sandy beach, not something Saltcoats or Ardrossan could compare with. It used to be quite the place to be, with the putting green and the swings etc., and the one man's huge thistles, they must have been 6 feet tall..remember those??

[Hughie]

Don't remember the thistles Morag, but I do remember going down there at the end of the Shore Road where you mentioned to meet up with the local burds at the Kiosk. We spent some pleasant warm summer evenings down there, I was probably only fourteen then.

[Addie]

Does anyone remember Mcphees High Rd. Steveston?My Mother took me there every week when the tomatoes were in season,en route to my Grans in Morrison Ave.They always gave me a paper poke with cherry tomatoes I called them baby ones I assume it was a market garden. Addie

[morag]

I worked there one summer, under age of course,(maybe 8, ) berry picking, you had to have more experience to pick the tomatoes.

[arrangazer]

I remember working at Willie Mcphees picking blackcurrents and other fruit we had great fun,got paid very little but I think we ate more than we picked,he was a nice man.

[morag]

never dawned on me to eat the fruit.....

[arrangazer]

You really are unique

Isobel

[Catherine Belle]

You really are unique

Isobel

Naw, just a St. Johns catholic school girl. We were aw feart to break the rules back then......blame it on having to go to confession and face the wrath of Father Mclaughlan (sp)

[morag]

To a degree you are right, Catherine, it would have been stealing heaven forbid! I'd roast inHell ,but part of it was the ingrained nature of if you are going to do a job give at least 100% And a lot o' those other mostly adult pickers of less moral fibre obviously, stole ma pickins 'till I got a word from the wise from a kindly one!

[arrangazer]

I was only a young girl when I worked at the nursery, also been told to eat a few blackberrys by Willie Mcphee It didnt even once occur to us once we were doing something wrong since we had his permission.

isobel

[morag]

Me too, Isobel, must have been 8 or 9..maybe we were there at the same time? Around 1958? Don't remember being told to eat the fruit but then I was so caught up with all the goings on and all the different workers, the wee baskets for the berries and the glorified tomato pickers! and it being my first paying job!

[Aileen Shaw]

Hi
I remember McPhee's nursery I was brought up in Wallace Ave and when it was windy you could here the polythene battering of some of the frames, and we often got mice coming from the nursery, my granny lived in Hayocks Rd and she sent me down to the nursery for tomatoes.
Aileen