(1) Does anyone remember the Continental Cafe in Glasgow Street, Ardrossan?

(2) Who was the proprietor?

(3) Was anybody ever in it?

Meg, I never came in contact with Mrs. Revie but she sounds the type of hero I had in mind. I think she came after my time. I'm almost frightened to ask but am I correct in interpreting your 'post' to read that Mrs. Bush was "the teacher from hell" - because if I was asked for my favourite...

Colmac, There's much merit in what you say. I definitely had to work hard to achieve any successes but the point remains that Mr. Hendren pointed me towards a profession that neither I nor anyone else had contemplated nor were likely to. I certainly wouldn't have selected it if left to my own devices

Aileen, Thanks for another wee jog of the local memory banks. I had long since forgotten about the alsatian. I had mischief in my mind on many a day only to be thwarted by him. If he was truly friendly it was never a side of his personality I witnessed. He did his job well. Can you answer something ...

Hughie, Thanks for that. I don't know how I came to omit Mr. Kirk. I did know him, of course, and recognise the huge contribution he made to schools football, certainly in my day. I did not know however, about his brother playing for Hearts in the late 50's. If this is the case he is likely to have ...

Following on from a conversation between myself and "JOCKMG" [on the THREE TOWNERS WEBSITE thread] regarding something he might say to his brother, William, with whom he is hopefully soon to be reconnected after 30 years, I casually suggested that we should perhaps begin a 'TRIBUTE' thread...

NAMES:

BACK ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT:

Mr. Joseph Dodds, Ronnie Martin, Jim Smith, Billy Cliffe, Billy Brown, Mr. Alex Morrison (Headmaster), Dennis Nelson, Willie Bagnall, Laurence Macintyre.

FRONT ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT:

Tommy Muir, Findlay Denver, Sandy Marshall, Ian Nelson, Jim Boyd, Ronnie Lynch.

Someone will tell you for sure but I suspect that may once have been the Custom and Excise Office and if so, being a Government establishment, they would fly the Union Jack on designated public holidays and other nominated days.

Including Willie Bagnall who has been discussed in several postings lately.

Morag, My recollection of the good quality football pitch and the running track are clear - what I was trying to remember was whether or not I might have changed somewhere in the school and accessed the Rec Grounds directly through a gate from the school - viz. through the gate, on to a grass embank...

I'm an Ardrossanite but thought the photos were super too - I must have been in Stevenston more than I thought because they brought back memories of the town. Would I be right in thinking that playing schools football I might have changed somewhere in Stevenston Higher Grade and passed through a bac...

Little Plum - you have flabbergasted me - at the start of this thread I drew up a list of my own re all the ways I made money and this was one I thought would never come up - my older brothers taught me to get down the South Beach in Ardrossan on the first windy day of Autumn because the sand was bl...