Council Workers
A Memory of Garelochhead.
Does anybody remember Tam Ritchie and his band of merry men ? They were the council workers based at Dunivard Place always good for a laugh ! Tam lived in an old caravan which I think Marco Galli has rotting away in his yard at Glencairn Terrace .He drove the old steamroller when the were doing maintenance on the roads.If I remember when they disbanded the Garelochhead crew he moved to the wee road at the bottom of Whistlefield,I don’t know when he passed away but he was lucky he wasn’t there when a lorries brakes failed and the driver tried to take the wee road that took you to Coulport unfortunately he didn’t quite make it and crashed into a tree which resulted in him and his mate being fatally injured. Francis Firth I don’t know your real name but I remember Nancy Bryce and the McGuires and that swing,was even worse in the winter if you went down the hill and crashed into the old telephone exchange .
Well I’ll sign off for now and see if I get any reaction to my wee story
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