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Where my Dad Was Born
Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland is the place where my Dad was born in 1901. Born 1901 Died 1980.
West Lothian memories
The Vale of Avon 1965-69
Since I can remember, the Brig always had a football team and I just loved to watch them as a boy, harbouring dreams that some day I might be good enough to play with them. Davie and Rab Hall ran the side and come hail or shine, plus the lot in between, both of them were always at the matches. On the days I skipped school Rab and I would go across to Chalmers Mill for a couple of bags of sawdust to line the park. Come Saturday morning out we'd go with a wheelbarrow and a string line that seemed as if could stretch from the burn at one end to the brs. In the early days the players I can remember were as follows, Sanny Easton, big Pate McGuiness, Harry Wilson, Pat Harvey, John Muldoon, and Chic Houston, if a laddie couldn't have a local hero out of that lot, then I don't know where they could find one. In later years I managed to get a game... Read more
Janet Walker
Janet Walker gave birth to Jeanie in 1913 at 17 Bridgend Rows
My Mothers Birthplace
Mine is not a personal memory but Uphall Station was the birthplace of my mother. Mum was born on the 29th of April 1924. Her parents were Hugh and Annie Campbell ( nee Mooney ). My grandparents and Mum immigrated to New Zealand in 1925. I am intending to visit Scotland in the next couple of years and will be visiting Uphall Station. As an only child Mum and I were very close and sadly she passed away 5 years ago and we were unable to travel to her birthplace together but I will keep her dream alive by coming to this often talked about, very special place with my husband.
Home
I was born in Mid Calder; my sister in Pumpherston; and my brother in Uphall Station. We lived at 17 Nettlehill Road until we emigrated to Canada in October 1957. We all went to the school in Uphall Station and my favourite teacher was Miss Clyde. All of us have been back to Scotland and Uphall Station. The second time I was back I went to the old house to have a look, nothing had changed. One of my later times in going, the 17 Nettelhill Road I knew was torn down and a new one was in place. When we left Scotland in 1957 they were just building the houses behind Nettlehill Road. Now there is a new Station with dual railway tracks going both east and west. Times have changed and the village has grown, but Uphall Station in my heart is still home
Co-Op Choir
Great memories singing in the Co-op choir. Putting on a show for the locals who bought a ticket and were given a bag of food and a drink to eat during the interval. Also going to Corstorphine for the choir competition and Scottish country dancing. Lots of great memories going to the Co-op Xmas and New Year dances. The Locarno, The Dreadnought (Birdcage), Flannigans, Smiths, great night life as a teenager.
Family History
My grandfather John Bartholomew was born in Duntarvie Caastle in 1848. Because of the spring line which went throught the "field" the house was wet and eventually the estate built a new farmstead - Duntarvie. This was situated just across the fields from the castle. My forbears who farmed this land did not turn the field into plough land - like other fields - but it was used to place cattle, imported from Ireland, which developed foot and mouth disease. The cattle did not die but became excessively thin and then eventually recovered and were sent to the cattle courts for fattening. My grandfather retired due to ill health in 1934 and the farm then passed out of the family. We have the "£rent book" given to my grandfather by the Marquis which show that the family first farmed this land in about 1600. Rent in the early days was paid by the farmer having to work so many days a year on the Hopetoun Estate. There were about 20... Read more
