From: Fiona Gillespie To: threetowners@topica.com Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 Hello All, Drew Gillespie once of Nithsdale Road then Chapelhill Mount Ardrossan, Attended Ardrossan Academy between 1960 and 1970 then moved to England in 1971 (it did feel like emigrating!!) I was born in Kilwinnin...

From: "Sandra Glover" <sandglow@xx.co.uk> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 Hi Margaret, the only spooky story I know of Ardrossan Castle is, if you go there when it is thundering and the lightening is flashing there may be a slim chance you may see the ghost of...

From: "Jim Gordon" <jim.gordon@xx.net.nz> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 Who was ''terrified'' by Kitty Broon who walked the ''monkey walk'' who ''smelt Dan Craigs piggery cairt who heard Joe Howie shout ''herrin fresh, herrin'' who went up the Cannon hill on ...

Street Traders From: "David Young" <david@presto1.xx.co.uk> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 Does anyone remember Tommy Ballantyne the fruit and veg seller who used a horse and cart. The horse was called Nelly. I think he also was the coal man and then the ca...

Lost Touch From: "Ewan Steed" <genealogy@xx.co.uk> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 Hi Hugh Great topic for this week and I'm sure it will bring memories flooding back. I was at Stevenston High School and left in 1963 and lived in McGregor Avenue then the Hayo...

From: <gusmorri@xx.com> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 I remember taking my dad, s bookies line to Willie Edger , he used to stand on the corner of New England Road & Dalry Road. I can remember it being 3 tanner doubles & a tanner treble. This was before Willi...

From: "hewmac" <hewmac@xx.com.au> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 All the best for 2001 to all threetowners. Hope everyone got over the New Year celebrations alright. We chose to have a quiet one here in Melbourne where it's been very hot, so much so that we h...

From: "David Young" <david@.xx.co.uk> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 When I was about 14, I got a job on Hogarth's farm just at the end of Corrie Crescent, Saltcoats. One of the perks was to pick as many potatoes as I could carry after my day's work. They d...

From: "Paul Dorrian" <pablito@xx.co.za> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 I remember a butchers shop near the bottom of Raise Street. The butcher was a gentleman called Mr Nisbet (Nesbit??). My mother got all her meat there and there was always a sweetie for me w...

From: "mcguire" <mcguire@xx.dk> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 The other day my wife and I were discussing Christmas present and agreed that on of the younger member of the family should have the latest addition of the Guinness Book Of Records..................

From: "David Young" <david@xx.co.uk> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 When I was a very little boy I remember my friend and I watching a man filling holes in a door with putty and then painting it green. It was the door to Nixon's Old Showrooms in Union Stree...

From: "Sheila Block" <macavoy@xx.net> To: <threetowners@topica.com> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 Townies, Your reveries are delightful. They sound just like my school experience in Brooklyn NY in the late 40s, early 50s. But may I change the subject? Am searching for history of the so-c...