Winton Street Cobbler's Cottage Ardrossan

[Jimbo]

Hi y"all
I thought the cobbler was Dorothy Fanges dad .
cheers Jim.

[georgeflemingard]

Hi y"all
I thought the cobbler was Dorothy Fanges dad .
cheers Jim.

Hi jimbo, sorry never hear of Dorothy Fanges or her Dad but you could be right, dependes what year we are talking about. I am talking about the late 1940s and the wee Cobblers hut was definatly called Hayings{hainings} at that time, and i assume the Cobbler was called Mr Haining, now i have given my age away! all the best George

[Meg]

Hi Jim

Now you know I am just a young thing but I thought Fainges cobbler shop was on Princes Street, across from the Eglinton Hotel - next to a pub - was it Macs Bar? Mr and Mrs Fainges lived in Clyde Terrace opposite St Andrews Road.

M
xx

[Jimbo]

Hi y"all
Dorothy [fanges/fainges] was in our class at Eglinton school, they stayed in Glasgow street almost across from the hut [just down from the Caley gates.] .Mr Fainges/Fanges might have sold it . the other Hainings I remember was May Haining,s the fruit shop at the corner of Barr street

Barr street was the smoothest street in Ardrossan, great for roller skating
and the incredible smell of fresh baked bread coming from "the dispatch"

Happy days indeed. the smell of fresh baked breid!!!!!
Jim.

[canfactory]

Yes Meg, I remember Fanges the cobbler's on Princes street and like you remember the family when they lived on Clyde Terrace. Wasn't there two daughters? Dorothy and Margaret?

Also, I remember a cycle shop (Climies?) close to Fanges and wasn't there a gas shop right on the corner of Princes Street and Glasgow Street?

C.

[bobnetau]

Just talking to Bobby and Eddie and they think the cobblers was behind
Maroneys, on the corner of that lane that ran from Winton Street.
Netta

[Hughie]

Tom McGrattan posted the top photo from 2006 earlier in this topic, it shows the building I recall being called the Cobbler's Cottage - I feel it probably was a cobbler's cottage well before our time though. As I stated earlier my mother-in-law told me many years ago she lived there with her adopted Anderson family - they had moved up from Barasssie Street in Troon - that'll interest our golfing son.



The bottom Photo was captured from Google and dated August 2021. The tree on left on the corner is where the cottage was. The building on the near corner shows 10 Winton Street.

My MIL's adopted father Fergus Anderson (Ship's Carpenter) was knocked down in Glasgow street in 1929 and died in Glasgow Western Infirmary. Home address was recorded as 2 Winton Street, Ardrossan. Can't think of anywhere else 2 Winton Street would be but the cottage, there's nothing beyond but the Glasgow Street buildings and their back yards.