From: "Richard Maxwell" <dickiemax@xx.com> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 I recall a time early 1940 when I met two of my friends who told me they had just joined the Home Guard. After explaining that you had to be 16 to join, I asked how come you got in you're...

From: <garrett@xx.nl> To: <threetowners@ topica.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 I seem to remember my dad telling me that during one of the air-raids (perhaps the bombing of Ardeer) a small shell fell on Hayocks Road, Stevenston, right in the middle of the road. I was v. young at the time he told m...

From: <sahaley@xx.net> To: <threetowners@ topica.com> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 Jimmy, you may have known my grandad who was a plater at the that time in Ardrossan shipyard, wee Charlie Martin. He later became provost of Saltcoats, also became an ardent pacifist as a result of all the haphazard u...

From: Jimmy Laughlan Salt > USA To: threetowners@ topica.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 Hi. All, I remember there being a large brick and concrete air raid shelter situated on the wee park between Anderson Drive and New England Road right at Knox place, but no one would use it because of the terri...

From: <angels4me28@xx.com> To: <threetowners@ topica.com> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 Hello to everyone, When I visited my gran in the 50s, I remember being told not to go near the mines on the beach....They had to be from the war.....any comments...if I remember right, they looked like large metal...

Topics here have been compiled from posts when threetowners was an emailing Group started in 1999 . Signs of the past (1) From: <hewmac@xx.net.au> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 Topic Of The Week: April 27, 2001 "Signs of the past" Topic of the Week is simply a...

From: "Sam Bukka" <sambukka@xx.com> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 Anyone know anything about the "Greasy Pole" which is located on the North Shore, Ardrossan? It was there during the 1800s, was it a Maypole? or what. Bukka From: "Hugh McCallum&qu...

From: "Annie Walker" <annie@xx.edu.au> To: <threetowners@ topica.com> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 Thank you for the topic Hugh. I am not a 3T myself but I married one - Matt Walker and we are enjoying the emails immensely. As a kid growing up in Rutherglen, we used to go on Sunday school tr...

From: <hewmac@xx.net.au> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 The earliest folk I can remember migrating to Australia were the COOK Family, they left while we were in Winton Primary School Ardrossan - perhaps around 1950-51. They would have been about 6 or 7 years old and may h...

From: <hewmac@xx.net.au> To: <threetowners@ topica.com> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 South Crescent - the promenade at Ardrossan - is graced by several large mansions of the early 1800's, built for the businessmen and merchants of that era. The house at No.8, was originally the home of Hugh Hogarth....

From: <jkelly5859@xx.com> To: <threetowners @topica.com> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 Hi everyone. Someone recently posed the question about why the "ham and egg close" (or pen as I knew it) in Stevenston, New Street was so called. I thought I'd post the answer in case anyone else is int...

From: <hewmac@xx.com.au> To: <threetowners @topica.com> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 William Landsborough - Australian Explorer William Landsborough the son of Stevenston Parish's revered minister David Landsborough was commissioned in Australia to lead one of three search parties for the Burke and ...