Hill O Beath My Home

A Memory of Hill of Beath.

Hill of Beath was a great place to stay when I was young, running round streets playing cowboys with Brayan Snedon, Ross Mickey, playing football and training with the Haws, going to the little shop on Main Street and getting a bottle of Rumco juice, mmmmm. Going up Hill O Beath Hill making camps and tree houses and playing at the humppills - a lot of mounds in the ground covered with trees, we played soldiers there. I stayed in the old prefabs there until Swintons Place was built then I moved to 47 Swintons Place next to Jammie Izat, Peter Moodie stayed across from us, Andrew Barr (sadly not with us now, died young) stayed just up the road a little. We moved up to Hawthorn Crescent when my di died James Wilson (Pim) and we stayed with my gran Cathy Wilson (Denholm). I remember Finlisons staying two doors down from us. After a while we moved to a bigger house in Dalbeath Gardens next to a family called Wilson as well I could see the football matches with the Haws from my bedroom window, yes a great time in HILL O BEATH.