Carradale

[LANDROVER ROGER]

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[SARID]

Did ye naw manage the journey North this Summer Landrover R? A hope it wisna that ye wir frightened that yir whiskey might be spiked in wan o' the local drinking dens ye frequent. Ye haav tae be very careful!

[LANDROVER ROGER]

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[witchnettle]

can anyone shed some light on the mysterious car that appears in the pull in on the left hand side of the road on the brae up out of the village just after dippen and before torrisdale, and stays there all day with his lights on. He seems to appear about once a week and i have seen him there for the last couple of months.
Is this some sort of covert survey he is doing? or just getting away from it all.
I'm getting to the stage where my curiosity will get the better of me and i'll be stopping and quizzing him in person, but if he is on a clandestine mission this may prove to troublesome for me, so i thought i would ask my sources first.
x

[ionnsaigh]

A gid spy widnae leave the lights oan, awe day. He's eithur wan o they, inspecturs fae the buroo... or the immigration Department.. Counting Foreigners..

[chuckiebay]

Back row L/R: John McBride; Archie Brown; Angus Cook; John Campbell 9Nona); Donald Morrison; Alister Galbraith; Hector McMillan; Johnny McMillan; Donald Paterson(Fergie)

2nd row: Peggy Galbraith; Margt McDougal; Lizzie Campbell; Annie McBride; Jeanie Girgen; Annie W Paterson; Mairi McDougal; Peggy McKinnon;

3rd row: Marion McDougal; Chrissie McKechnie; Flora Blue; Lizzie McLean; Flora Downie; Agnes Brown; Alice Thomson; Betty Galbraith; BuntyMcPherson.

4th row: Walter McDougal; Davey Mitchel; Gibby Nicholson; Duncan Fisher; Alister McMillan.

The teacher was Miss Fettes.

[Isa]

Great photo. At least 4 of the boys are wearing Ganseys (fisherman's jersey)

[Govangirl]

What a fantastic photo. Are any of them still alive and living in Kintyre?

[SARID]

Great photo,and in good condition considering it was probably taken around 1920. My Auntie is in the group, and died just over three years ago. She was born in 1912.
The children look as though they vary in ages, so I presume Miss Fettis must have been in charge of two or three classes all taught in the same room.

[witchnettle]

which of the 'old' schools was in use at the time x

[chuckiebay]

This was the school opposite Semple's shop. The shop was not there then, just a wonderful wood for playing in during the lunch break. When the shop was built in the early fifties Peter John would come over with a tray of goodies to tempt us at playtime. In the summer we would keep our money till the lunch break when we would spend our threepences on ice-cream at Donald Campbell's. It was great if Mrs Campbell would serve us as she would be very generous with the helping on the cone; Keith and Walter were more "careful"! I still miss that ice-cream.

[chuckiebay]

I can count eight McDougal cousins in the picture

[Right Pongal]

A great old photo right enough and full of many of the old family names from the village. Chuckiebay is right about Campbell's ice cream, there was never the likes. Someone will need to get the recipe from Keith or Walter before it's too late. I think there was cornflour in there somewhere, but not really sure. Angie and John Bun have successfully kept the old family recipes going on the East side of the village and maybe they could negotiate a deal with Basil!

Aye the diet of herring kept them healthy for many's a year, but not enough to get past the century.

[SARID]

Is there anyone in the School photo still alive ?
The School we all went to was built in the 1890's. The date is on the front of the building, and might be 1898. This replaced the school up past Auchnasavil, now known as the "Old Schoolhouse " My Granny walked there from South Dippen and each child was required to bring a daily peat to keep the fire going
Great memories too, of Donal Campbell's icecream, and we sometimes would buy an Oxo cube to eat on the way home if we hadn't the cost of a cone! What a thought !

[Right Pongal]

Oxo cubes! that's damn all SARID, I'm sure us men that went to the North had to eat Gorilla's Heids!

And we were damn glad of them or a gleshin!