Pat worked at a sandwich/hot/cold rolls shop next to Jocks Lodge public bar, Princes st. Ardrossan. She was a friendly, cheerful girl. We would get our morning roll there when working as an apprentice printer at Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald Office. Very sad, Doug, I can just remember it at the ...

Ayr observer And Galloway Chronicle May 11, 1888 New U.P. Church For Saltcoats The site is on the north side of Dockhead Street, near to the Royal Bank. The church will be of the Gothic style of architecture, and, possessing all the modern improvements, it will be built to seat 450 persons. The arc...

https://canmore.org.uk/site/41088/stevenston-hullerhirst The old porch don’t look like that no more.. It's all very academic now, but maybe representative of the planning system then that some Cooncil body believed that that particular crime of a porch plonked onto the facade of an 18th century hou...

Lots of positives.
Pool strength in depth, and nobody pressed Ireland and France harder than Scotland did.
Ten years ago we would have been resigned to a slow bicycle race with Italy - and thank God they've improved out of all recognition - for the spurtle of oak.
Happier days

Some used the breadboards for sliding down the hill at mill dam ,,best days Not coming from among the Stevenston Ratepayers (do they still exist?) we just had to make do with an old cardboard box cut across the short axis and opened out, and pulled up at the front end like a sleigh. Last time I loo...

That's the Andy I remember, Brian, that was a good read. He was a real favourite with the fans and the sports writers back then. :puter Oh yes. I remember him from the Scottish Football Book 1962, photographed in the footballer's plain-clothes of the day - sports jacket, scarf, and fawn overcoat ov...

glenshena wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:53 pm Did anyone buy prince Harrys book 'SPARE'.
I have declined, but It has obviously been a sell-out.

I've been thinking for a while that there's a second word that's somehow gone missing from the title

bonzo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 6:43 pm What a 2nd half we were ruthless.

Me and my wee dug, Duhan, are hoarse this morning...

You might like this sequence.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving oaf...

I must have watched van der Merwe's try a dozen times - that instantaneous acceleration from a standing start for such a big guy was just so unexpectedly phenomenal. Judging by the floundering of the first three England players he went past, it was a total surprise for them too.

Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette December 12, 1952 From Office Stool to the Wide Open Spaces On Monday of this week, 17- year-old Hugh Fullarton took leave of his home at 12 Ardoch Crescent, Stevenston, on the first stage of his journey to Australia. Hugh, who was a junior clerk in the office...

Big party as i post in Melbourne as Australia defeat Denmark 1-0 (deservedly) to go through to the knockout round.Australia will next play Argentina, Poland or Saudi Arabia depending on later results. Brilliant and well done to the Soccerooos ..especially the goalscorer from Melbourne Mathew Leckie...