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THE BRACKENRIDGE FAMILY
It is not a memory but the knowledge that my family lived in Gatehouse of Fleet from 1783 to 1880. My great great grandfather was the innkeeper of the Crown and Thistle in Fleet Street, Gatehouse of Fleet. It may be the Ship Inn now, I am not certain. My family name is now McKenzie but the Brackenridge's mean a great deal to me.
Regards,
Colin.
Kirkcudbrightshire memories
The Castle
I was 9 years old when I moved with my family to Kirkcudbright. My father worked for Sir Charles Hope Dunbar. We moved into his castle and had a rear section as our home. I am not sure of the date, about 1940 the castle caught alight and was burned to the ground this happned about 2am. I remember standing outside in my pj's watching windows breaking and the flames going up to the next level. We eventually moved to Park House Cottage where I lived until joining the navy in 1947. I was office boy in the County Coucil office, the County Clerk was A. L. Bushnel. I am now living in Tasmania (Australia)
Memories of A Happy Childhood
This brings back so many memories to me.I was born in 1956 registered just up the hill in the congo at 10 Chain terrace.But all my childhood memories are of the wonderfullly happy time I spent at 3 Chain road with my Grandma and Granda Love. Hugh Love (old Ped) was at various times milkman for Skimmings,drove Palmers tippers,worked at the precast, ran the caravan site for the council then Willie McMillan.Grandma Love was equally industrious having many wee jobs including cleaning at the Ellangowan.Great granny Hughes lived on Harbour st. auntie Eck & uncle Willie (Hughes) lived in Loudon place, I think my family just about had the whole place covered, Great uncle Ernest Wilson had the hardware shop & was church organist, granny & granda Parker were up in Chain terrace, and then the boathouse,uncle David worked the nets for Captain Caird,Wherever I went in the village I could always get a jelly piece! Of course I can't forget the king of the ice cream makers Marina Sisi... Read more
Best Ice Cream
Friends of the family owned a remote cottage towards Cairnsmoor from Creetown. We holidayed from Surrey on steam-hauled trains via Carlisle to the end of the world. Sheep scratched their backs on the corner of the cottage. Brown water baths were handpumped and cooking was on an explosive paraffin cooker. As a small boy building dams, I cut off the downstream farmer's water supply! Best of all was Mr Sisi's icecream in the village. I returned in 1967 to find all my memories. I hope they're mostly still there. Laurie Packer
Memories of A Young Boy
I was born at what was then no 5 Chain Terrace in 1935. My name then was Arthur O'Hara. My surname has since been changed to Harrow. The photo of Chain Terrace in this site shows the house that I was born in (I think), with the school straight across the road. I moved from there with my parents and brother Gordon to the cottage at the entrance to Cassencary where my mother worked in the big house and my father worked in the quarry. Of course the war was on then and my father went into the RAF. We moved from there to the Mark Farm cottage where the Lennox family were the farmers and my mother worked in the farm house. My parents split up at this time and we moved to the cottage at Gatehouse station into the cottage next to the viaduct. My brother and I went back to no 5 Chain Terrace to live with my granny O'Hara. Even although there was a war on... Read more
Not Actually A Memory But A Query...
There's a ruined church, still with roof but no windows and totally surrounded by overgrown shrubbery and a tall wall, just west of Glenlochar Barrage heading towards Laurieston. It's on the right hand side heading west and is in a little patch of greenery amongst the fields with only the roof visible from the road. There's an old green way up to it a few hundred yards long. I'm trying to find out more about it. Anyone have any information on it please? I have photos of it but I don't think I can add them on here...
Some Childhood Years in Sorbie - 1932 t0 1937
The family moved from Reay in Caithness to Sorbie in 1932 - I was 2 years old and had a sister who was 12 years old and a brother, 10 years old, so there was a huge difference in ages and I was brought up as a sort of "only child." My recollections begin when I was about four years old. My father was the Headmaster of the village school and he had two teachers under him. We lived in the Schoolhouse which was a very substantial building close by the school in its own cul de sac. My first recollections were of two ladies who lived across from us behind a very high fence. They were very kind to our family over the years. They were both single women, the elder was a Justice of the Peace and sat on the Bench in Wigtown. The other lady had been an ambulance driver in the front line area during World War 1 - a very dangerous undertaking. Next... Read more
