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The Outdoor Pool.......................
Spending all day at the pool/beach when I was a kid.
Would go in the sea, run along to the pool, jump in the shallow end ( cos you were getting a bit cold by this time ) and bliss, it was like being in a sauna. mmmmm
Hurrying home to get a quick bite to eat then back down to pool, pulling soaking wet costume back on again. Yeuch!!!
Also remember having midnight bathing/galas, team games, i.e. diving for tins of fruit.
Those were the days................ great times.
Fife memories
Old House on Harbour Road
The house on Harbour Road was where I lived with my parents and sister for approx two years. We lived in one room in the gable end, then we were moved to the other end which was three rooms in a row. We lived there till 1949 then moved to a new council flat. My coin collection was kept behind the wallpaper next to the fireplace, unfortunately I forgot about it when we moved. I was young then, born in 1939. Kinghorn was a great place to be a young boy, and I have many happy memories of life there. In 1957 we moved to Canada and have been there ever since.
A Child in Kinghorn
I lived at 54 High Street, Kinghorn, Fife, Scoland, and went to school in Kinghorn and Burntisland. I remember the fish trains at night going to Burtisland and beyond and clanking up the hill as they came out of Kinghorn station. I also remember that it was double summer time.
Carefree Childhood Days
I remember 'guddling' for trout in the Teal Burn in Auchtertool. Most of the lads in the village tried it at one time or another. When we caught one we would measure it by placing the nose of the trout on our finger tips and the tail along our arm towards the elbow. The aim was to catch one that reached all the way up to the elbow but of course we never did. After all we were growing lads and each year our arms would be a little longer. Anyway there wasn't a trout big enough in the Teal.
Also my brother Jack taught me how to catch rabbits bare handed. We would go into a farmer's field and there would be clumps of nettles all around. In most of the clumps would be a rabbit laying clapped. He would walk slowly up to a clump and after asserting that a rabbit was clapped, he would let himself fall on top of it. We used to catch quite a... Read more
OBSERVER CORPS
Though I have no personal memories of the Victoria Works I would be interested to hear of any recollections of the ROC based there. The Observation Post can still be seen abve the roof and its survival is probably unique in Fife.
Steve, stephen.liscoe@fife.gov.uk
The Towers
I often remember walking past here on the way to visit my Auntie & Uncle Liz & Wull Marshall, they were actually my Dad's Uncle & Auntie. We lived up at the Hallows in Gallatown. I was born in 1947 and we moved to Australia in 1962. I am pretty sure there was a mad old woman that lived there and someone told me she was related (never found out). I had a paper run in Dysart and it was pretty spooky in the dark. I absolutely loved Dysart andhope to get back there soon for a holiday. Most of my relatives including Dad worked at the Dubbie. Billy Allan 42 High St, Charters Towers, Qld, Australia. 4820.
Ravenscraig
I remember once after being warned by Mum & Dad not to climb up the rocks the the castle, but my mates talked me into it. Just got up near the top when there was a shout and a couple of Bobbies headed towards us. Off we went down the rocks, managed to get to the beach and up the steps to Ravenscraig Park and got away. Never went up there again mind.
