Byrness, Byrness Forestry Village c.1965
Photo ref:
B557317
Photo ref:
B557317
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A Selection of Memories from Byrness
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Byrness
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Well, Byrness Utd, the lads in the village made the team up. We played local villages - we made the goal posts out of trees and we nicked the paint out of dad's shed to mark the pitch - this was around the year of 1967-68. We saved up for the kit which was orange and white - we wanted Chelsea kit, but the bloke who went to get it came back with the wrong colour. I can still name the players; K Oliver, P Oliver, J ...see more
I remember summers being summers & winters being hellish with feet upon feet of snow. Being snowed in for weeks, but Mam always had a full pantry. You had to be really organised and I dont remember ever being hungry. Summer was for picnics up byrness hill, or swimming at the ford, where loads of mothers would meet for gossip and tea from a flask. All us kids played together, the older ones looking out for the ...see more
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