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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
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
Ian Emery
Ian, Yes I remember you at Minnigaff, we used to have a three way sports with Minnigaff, Stronord and Glentrool in the playing field. Minnigaff always won, Stronord second and poor Glentrool with about twenty pupils last. All old faces are still here, Tom Marr, Willie Cuthbertson, and oh, did some of the girls look pretty in the navy knickers. Yes, great times and some hard footy matches in the park. Tom Hydes was the best header of a football I've ever seen. Good luck.
Born And Bred in Minnigaff
I along with my brothers, Stewart and Graeme, our parents Allen and Sheila lived our early childhood at 15 McGregor Drive. All went to the original primary school and then onto Creetown Secondary. Many happy memories of my childhood in and around Minnigaff. My Grandparents (Jim and Sally McCreath) lived in Corviesel Avenue Newton Stewart. We moved to England in 1961. I now live in Cyprus. It would be nice to hear from any old school friends from those early days.
Ian Emery
Old Minnigaff Primary Schoool
I remember watching the television in Mr How's class of the landing of the first man on the moon with my fellow class mates of primary 6 and 7. He was a wonderful headmaster. He was the last headmaster of Old Minnigaff Primary School and first in the newly commissioned Minnigaff primary school.
I lived in the cottage beside Creebridge Garage and my father Bill worked there. My mother Doreen was librarian at Wigtown Primary School at the time. Sadly, the bungalow beside Creebridge garage no longer exists and instead, sited on the space where it was, is a filling station.
I have fond memories of Old Minnigaff primary school as it was such an uncomplicated place. I started there in primary 5 under the guidance of a wonderful influence, Mrs Campbell, who was such an elegant, polished and caring lady, with a penchant for pencil skirts and china tea cups, I recall.
Mr How was a lovely man and every pupil was special to him.... Read more
