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Stirlingshire memories
Being Young
I grew up in Maddiston. I'm only 33 and my memories are being allowed out late at night in the summer, playing tig, skipping, chapdoor run, also going for walks up behind the golf course. The village has changed a lot since then, it has got more housing, and a bigger school being built for all the new estates being built. The Avon Inn isn't there any more, but the Ranch is. The Co-Op was burned down in the early 90s, but a nicer place you couldn't live in. Maddiston has a bit of a reputation as a place full of nutters, but what place hasn't?
Summer Holidays at The Avon Water
I would have been about ten years old and I remember on a lot of hot sunny days packing some jam "pieces" and filling an empty bottle with some diluting orange juice or even just water if there was no juice, wearing my swimming costume under my clothes and walking to the Avon Water up past Candie. There would be a crowd of us all different ages, usually about ten or twelve of us. Do you know it felt like the longest walk and it was so hot there was never anything left to drink on the way back! We used to solve this by stopping at one of the farmhouses on the way back and lining up at the door and very politely asking for some water, I wonder if the lady is still there and if she remembers us? I remember her saying every time it would be just this once, but she never once turned us away! What I can't get my head round now is that... Read more
The Union Canal - Falkirk
I have explored the Union Canal in Falkirk over the past 15 years as a local resident and canal user - I have walked, and traveled its length several times over on boats, too ( in short sections of course). The journey began in 1997 when I started to walk around the area, then in 1998 I met Billy Mason who had a small barge (the Bonny Barge) and would take people for trips along the Forth and Clyde Canal, up the Falkirk Wheel to Hallglen and the laughing greeting bridge. I remembers a lovely trip I did with my father, James, to show him the new Falkirk Wheel in 2001.........This all ended in 2006 when Billy retired, I volunteer at Seagull Trust Cruises now (since 2009) and have been lucky enough to crew with them on their purpose built barges. As an avid amateur photographer I have spent many hours behind the lens of my my Olympus digi cam. I am now compiling a visual collection... Read more
Slamannan, Stirlingshire
"I left for London. Bill left for a place called Slamannan. Walter left for Leicester and all three of us became Policemen."
William Dey Urquhart, known as Willie or Bill. Policeman at Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Born 'Calternach', Boharm, Banffshire, 4th August, 1911. Died At Falkirk, 25 January 1983.
Southfield Housr
I first came to Southfield House shortly after I was born in Falkirk in 1935 with my mother & father - Dorothy & Robert Barr. We lived there until I was 15 years. My brother Robin and sister Katie came along after me. To this day this is where I always loved to be.T he house was very big and Robin & I had lots of fun chasing each other and playing hide & seek with my father when he came home on leave from the army. I remember when there was a bunch of soldiers coming to stay at Southfield farm next door to us & Robin & I sat on the brick wall alongside the road and handed out cigarettes to them. I remember when the German planes were trying to get to the Clyde shipyard to bomb it and the British planes were chasing them and the German planes then tried to get back to Germany and were dropping their bombs anywhere. Two of them landed in... Read more
The Davidsons And The Cunninghams
My Grandparents - David C. Davidson and Isabel Cunningham were from Slamanan and came to the U.S. in 1906. David was a coal miner alongside of George Cunningham who came to the U.S. with David; my Grandmother and their first two children - Alec and David - crossed 6 months later. They settled in Linton, Indiana where they continued to mine coal. David lost his leg in a mining accident shortly after starting work. He then became a lobbyist for unionization of Indiana coal mines, and saw it come to fruition that all mines became unionized, much safer and healthier conditions prevailed from then to now. A union hall is name after him in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They went on to have 8 children - David (who died at a young age), Alec, Mary, Bill, Bob, Dick, Dorothy and Janet. Dorothy was my Mother, born in 1920, married John T. Maxwell in 1939, lost a child in 1942. My dad was in World War II in the Pacific for... Read more
The Bing
I have happy memories as a boy playing on The Bing. Not so good memories of my paper round for Jimmy Dickson. Drinking in The Cross, The Quiot and occasionally Birrels.
