Three Towns Aerial Coverage

[Anne]

It's amazing that the Gym is still around. wonder if it is the same inside as it used to be? Mr Aikenhead never allowed you in with shoes on, had to be your sandshoes or socks.

Anne

[bobbydarg]

LP, there was a large hole appeared there, and i guess the digger is backfilling it.

[jarneilh]

It's amazing that the Gym is still around. wonder if it is the same inside as it used to be? Mr Aikenhead never allowed you in with shoes on, had to be your sandshoes or socks.

Anne

Hello Anne

I had a look inside the gym in August just passed, hoping to see the polished floors as I remembered it when I left the school in 1960.

There were gym machines and weights all over the place and a few weight lifters doing their stuff. I don't know if the school has anything to do with it now.

Do you remember the walls where there used to be parallel bars that we used to climb up and hang upside down, the thick ropes hanging from the ceiling, the spring boards, the jumping horses that you could take a lair off to alter the height, the thick mats on the floor to do gymnastics on, and the bars that we used to lower from above to run at and jump over then do a forward roll, and of course the showers.

Mr Aikenhead with his white vest and pressed trousers used to make us all have a shower in freezing cold water, never once do I remember having hot water for a shower.

It was a fantastic gym until someone burnt it down.


All the best Jim

[Anne]

Hi Jim,
Can just picture it as you said, parallel bars etc. Those 'straw' mats were terrible ! Even if you went in and noteacher around you just knew to get your shoes off. It is such a pity, nothing lasts.

Anne

[FlyingAl]

hi all, a few more pics from mondays flights, enjoy.

al

[FlyingAl]

and again

anyone know the point of those new outcrops in the harbour!!!!

al


al

[little plum]

Al, if you were flying over Auchenharvie during the 3t's homecoming golf tournament in July, you would have been in serious danger. .

P.S. could you borrow Cinderella's glass slippers while you are up their, we might be able to see the full image.

[FlyingAl]

Al, if you were flying over Auchenharvie during the 3t's homecoming golf tournament in July, you would have been in serious danger. .

P.S. could you borrow Cinderella's glass slippers while you are up their, we might be able to see the full image.

Hi LP, I thought my petite tootsies MADE the image

al

[FlyingAl]

Hi all,

a few more birds eye view snaps of the 3 toons , enjoy

al

[bobbydarg]

Superb Al.

[little plum]

FlyingAl, I can only assume your last photos are dated. On the second image, top left, there is some waste ground behind the houses which face on to the boating ponds. Only recently when passing this area in Saltcoats I noticed a giant crane situated behind these houses. My immediate thought was the ground is being redeveloped . This doesn't show up on your photo, hence my reasoning for assuming the photos are dated.

[hahaya2004]

Fantastic photos, Al. Thank you.
Irene