Stevenston gassworks.
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 12:10 pm
I was born in Gasworks Close in 1944. The gasometers were at the end of the close and I used to play at them, a bit smelly.
It was between Maxwell the dentist and Harry Donnelly's sweetie shop.
There was also a blacksmith(smiddy) in the close, my granda worked there for a while.
I remember mum telling a story of the day the house went totally dark. There was a circus in town and an elephant had a problem of some sort.
The circus trainer brought the elephant to the smiddy's to get fixed and it sat on the window sill of our wee house and blocked out the light.
When I was wee my mum packed me a sandwich and I went to work at the Smiddys, I said I was a man boy.
Gasworks close was where the Bonnie Leslie Home is now and the Stevenston burn flowed by the back door.
The house was a room and kitchen, outside toilet and I used to get bathed in the wash house tub, with a burner underneath to heat the water.
I remember mum carrying me back into the house wrapped up in a towel.
Jock Thampson(great laugh) and Mary lived next door. Jock had a horse and cart for his fruit and veg business, they moved to Moorpark Road East.
Does anyone have a photo of that area, I would love to see it.
It was between Maxwell the dentist and Harry Donnelly's sweetie shop.
There was also a blacksmith(smiddy) in the close, my granda worked there for a while.
I remember mum telling a story of the day the house went totally dark. There was a circus in town and an elephant had a problem of some sort.
The circus trainer brought the elephant to the smiddy's to get fixed and it sat on the window sill of our wee house and blocked out the light.
When I was wee my mum packed me a sandwich and I went to work at the Smiddys, I said I was a man boy.
Gasworks close was where the Bonnie Leslie Home is now and the Stevenston burn flowed by the back door.
The house was a room and kitchen, outside toilet and I used to get bathed in the wash house tub, with a burner underneath to heat the water.
I remember mum carrying me back into the house wrapped up in a towel.
Jock Thampson(great laugh) and Mary lived next door. Jock had a horse and cart for his fruit and veg business, they moved to Moorpark Road East.
Does anyone have a photo of that area, I would love to see it.