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Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by Sarah » Mon Aug 02, 2021 6:05 am

I lived in 27 and the only Clarks I remember lived in 23 ? Hugh and Cathie I was only 11 then and use to go to the plaza on a Friday night to
get them fish and chips.

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by Iainbrown5 » Sun Aug 01, 2021 9:40 am

Poppy wrote: Sun Apr 21, 2013 1:10 pm Hi Del80
I lived at 11 Busbie Drive from around 1949 until 1961. I remember 2 sisters living at No13 but unfortunately I can't remember their names. Poppy
Hi Poppy

Did you know the Wallaces at number 10 or the Browns at number 14?

Iain

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by Visitor » Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:20 pm

A family of Dochertys lived in Busbie Drive until they moved round the corner to Ailsa Gardens, where some of them might still be.

In the second of George's pictures, on the left-hand side, the first block of four flats, left-hand again, downstairs (with the car parked on the driveway or on that of the semi-detached next door) is the Docherty's former home. Mickey and Philomena were the parents and they had around eight children. The parents came originally from Inishowen and arrived in Ardrossan via Glasgow.

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by Sarah » Sat Apr 27, 2013 6:28 am

This photo with the boarded windows brought back a lot of memories, I lived in 27, from 1939 till 55, I can remember
Beggs terrace being built and can remember most of the families around me but not too sure of the one's at the bottom of the street, great street at that time..

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by George Ardrossan » Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:52 am

Meekan

Your memory is not playing tricks as Sweet Caroline's explanation proves.

Here is a photo taken by Tom McGrattan when Busbie Drive was renovated in the 1980s. One of the blocks was three storeys high but I have just driven along Strathclyde Avenue to convince myself that there are only two storey buildings today.
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George

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by sweet caroline » Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:57 pm

The tenement building after 17 was a 3 floor(Ground +2).When the council renovated them ,they knocked the 3rd floor down.My Brother in Law lived there for a while.Yes they used to have only the one entrance.

SC

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by meekan » Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:45 pm

George,
Is my memory playing tricks on me? I seem to remember Busbie drive with tennement buildings with closes, and some were ground level +2. It looks like the modern day buildings are ground + 1.

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by Poppy » Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:29 pm

Hi SC
The house in the picture is definately No13. I lived in the other corner house both leading into Central avenue shops. I think we left Hunter Avenue in 1979/80. I am sure the young woman was still living with her parents in Busbie Drive until her allocation to Hunter Avenue. I hadn't spoken to her before then. Sorry Poppy

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by sweet caroline » Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:16 pm

Hi Poppy,Could it have been the Dockerty's at that time .I lived in 17 upstairs 1973-1977
and they lived below .
SC

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by Poppy » Sun Apr 21, 2013 5:33 pm

Hi Del80
I wonder if the Clarke family moved out when I lived there and this other family moved in. The younger sister was not as old as me. When we moved from Hunter Avenue this young woman came to my house and bought my carpets as I think she had been alocated a house in the street. I remember she told me she was a single parent. Other than that I can't help you.

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by Del 80 » Sun Apr 21, 2013 2:47 pm

Hello Poppy, Susan had three sisters, Jessie McCracken Clarke, Ann Smith Clarke, and Alice Boyce Clarke.....she also had two brothers, Samuel Allen Clarke and Maurice Clarke. Jessie married in 1940, Ann in 1945, Alice....known as Elsie....didn't marry until 1950.....ring any bells ?.......Del.

Re: Busbie Drive Ardrossan

by Poppy » Sun Apr 21, 2013 1:10 pm

Hi Del80
I lived at 11 Busbie Drive from around 1949 until 1961. I remember 2 sisters living at No13 but unfortunately I can't remember their names. Poppy

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