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I Only Moved to Windygates For A Month
Hi, I just moved to Windygates from Cupar. Moved here on the 2nd of April 2010 in a wee street called Henderson Park.
Summer Holidays
My granny lived in a bungalow along the Kennoway road. Every summer during the fifties was spent there. Fond memories are of walking down to the cross roads to buy fresh morning rolls and the Beano or Dandy. Later we would buy icecream cones from one of the icecream parlours, I think there were three.
We used to walk along the railway line (not the main line) and catch trout in the burn. One of the highlights of our holiday was to go to the links fairs at St. Andrews and Kirkaldy. There was a bench next to granny's house and old men with bonnets would sit and chat, to this day I think one of them was grandpa Broon! I'm nearly sixty but these memories of Windygates are still with me.
Fife memories
As A Child
My gran stayed in a wee cottage across from Kinears (the grocer), used to play rounders at auld beenie Aggie's front door. Play areas were the lintholes, the wells green, the mear, swam in the summer after building a dam at the bridge over the back burn. Other gran / grandad owned the ice cream shop on the corner at Windygates (bottom galles )...want to know more?
My Childhood
You caught newts in the reservoir, just off Greig Park....down at the trenches....apples and pears in the berries...an old garden down Haughmill Lane...who remembers the barrel bridge....and the tennis courts?
My Childhood at Simon Crescent
I grew up in Methilhill from 52 onto 67. Had the best times there. I know as you look back, things look to have been better, but our days were better. As kids we were allowed to roam as long as we were back for tea time. We played on the rope swing at Purney Den? at the distillary, and down by the river. Never knew anyone to be worried about us. There were the potties as we called them, John Robb, John Carr, Eck Easton and George, Bernard and Grace, and Flounder, John Greig. We had a good life. Care free and family all around. Spent our pennies at Cauldwells shop. Went back there last year, the shop looks as if it is in a war zone. Spending time at McKendrick's farm or at Mrs Berrie's orchard. We roamed for hours having adventures that today's kids can only dream of....
My Childhood in Methilhill
I grew up in Grieve Street and my gran lived in Simon Crescent (no 28). I remember as a kid going to visit her and playing in the swing park opposite her house. There was a hill nearby which was called 'Hill 60' if my memory serves me well, and there was an old bridge called the 'Coo Bridge'. We had great adventures there. I remember being sent to Cauldwell's shop, Nairn's shop, and Heinz's shop. Who could forget the chip shop on the corner down the road from Methilhill Primary School. The school headmaster was Mr Russell, and my first teacher was Mrs Donaldson.
Byron Street to The Toll Bar Beyond
My name is Pat Whelan, born 1936. 10 Byron Street was one of the first houses added to Den Walk. I went to Crossroads School alongside Jim Webster, Jock Mears and some names I forget. Also in Byron Street were the Carrols, Gallaghers and Mckinnells. When we went to Simon Crescent we were fair game as strangers, and were attacked in good fun. We got them back when they came to our street. I have lived in England for years - I am 73. On the web Methil's no more. Or is it still there, but changed. I often wonder if any body else thinks the same.
