Does anyone remember the record shop upstairs in Gregor Watson's in the old corner Duncan's shop at the corner of Dockhead Street and Countess Street.

Scott McCallum - Glasgow

I remember it being buried in the coup when the coup was on the shore side of the Caly Railway line - where the caravan park is now. I wonder if the folk in the caravans know that they are sleeping over a dead whale.

Scott McCallum - Glasgow

In Saltcoats the Cuddy Park was off Gladstone Road behind Gamble's shop. The now disused GPO/ British Telecom building was built on the site. One of my earliest memories is of crossing a wall from the garden behind my grannie's house on Raise Street (no 69 I think) into the Cuddy Park. Scott McCallu...

I think there is still a mosaic on the ground at the entrance to Gregor Watson's shop with the letter D for Duncan on it. I remember this shop being corner Duncans before moving across the road.

Scott McCallum - Glasgow

Hi Martiboy This map of the Auchenharvie pits was drawn by the colliery manager after an accident in 1895. The low road from Saltcoats to Stevenson and the GSW Railway are still in the same place and Auchenharvie Academy sits roughly where Seabank is shown. Auchenharvie pits.jpg The Cheese Wedge or ...

Saltcoats

The Dardenelles, The Old Argyle, The New Argyle (became the Maple Leaf), The Saracen's Head (at times The Osborne).

Scott McCallum - Glasgow

This is one of the photos of the Caly line accident.

Scott McCallum - Glasgow

I grew up on Canal Street next to the Caly line and remember the boat trains that used to go by - really fast. They were always different colours from the GSW trains down by the shore. When I went to my dentist - Mr Buchanan in Argyle Road - you sat at a window looking down onto what remained of Sal...

Knockjargon can be found by putting the landranger grid NS235473 into the map at this location Scott McCallum - Glasgow http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=223550&y=647350&z=3&sv=223550,647350&st=4&mapp= newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=805&ax=223550&ay=647...

Hi Meg - yes it's Tommy's father and mother - I was out in Canada in 2004 and visited Tommy who lives with his wife Lynn in Stoney Creek in Ontario.

Scott McCallum - Glasgow

https://i.imgur.com/QtNYm9K.jpg The top photo shows the mineral well in the Holm Plantation - my wife's great and great-great grandfathers (George and John Adam) worked there from about 1830 to 1900. The bottom photo shows the New Argyle pub (about 1961)which became the Maple Leaf(about 1963). I gr...

My mother - Nan McCallum - worked in the Countess from the late 50s until it shut down. I used to get in to see all the films for free.

Scott McCallum - Glasgow