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by Hughie
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:04 am
Forum: McBlether's Lounge
Topic: Happy birthday - McAuley
Replies: 5
Views: 589

Happy birthday - McAuley

Happy birthday, Anne. Hope you have a great time for your special day. :) 🎂

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by Hughie
Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:58 am
Forum: McBlether's Lounge
Topic: Happy birthday - ellenyoung31
Replies: 9
Views: 1001

Re: Happy birthday - ellenyoung31

Thanks, Penny. We all miss her. :hi:
by Hughie
Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: McBlether's Lounge
Topic: Happy birthday - ellenyoung31
Replies: 9
Views: 1001

Happy birthday - ellenyoung31

Thinking of you on your birthday, Ellen. Hope all is well with you. :) 🎂

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by Hughie
Sat Feb 10, 2024 12:20 am
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Looking Back - Herald files
Replies: 341
Views: 278363

Re: Looking Back - Herald files

From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on July 13, 2011 150 YEARS AGO on July 28, 1961 SALTCOATS Rifle Volunteer Corps held a bazaar in the Free Church Academy and raised upwards of £235. Shipments of pig iron from Ardrossan for one week including coast- wise and foreig...
by Hughie
Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:14 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
Replies: 8115
Views: 1436897

Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History

Campbeltown Courier February 9, 1946 Herring Canning Factory at Ardrossan? The establishment of a herring canning factory at Ardrossan is angering the Tarbert fishermen, who expected that the Herring Industry Board would make the Clyde factory at Tarbert, one of the principal centres of the Clyde h...
by Hughie
Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:00 am
Forum: Books, Movies, Radio & Television
Topic: People's Friend - Down under
Replies: 0
Views: 509

People's Friend - Down under

Found these two boxes of People's Friends magazines here in Oz in one of our local neighbourhood houses. I believe just donated and not processed yet. They've always been available in the newsagents here from what I remember.

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by Hughie
Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Stevenston - On This Day In History
Replies: 3029
Views: 686441

Re: Stevenston - On This Day In History

Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette February 5, 1943 Asked Police To Detain Him Fifty-seven-year-old Roderick MacLennan is going back to prison. MacLennan got a job as warder in the Trades Hotel, Stevenston, on December 22. He was supplied with skeleton keys, which gave him access to the cubicle...
by Hughie
Sun Feb 04, 2024 2:19 am
Forum: McBlether's Lounge
Topic: Happy birthday - Glenshena
Replies: 9
Views: 1164

Happy birthday - Glenshena

Happy birthday, Jean. Hope you have a great day, thanks for your contributions to threetowners. 🎂 //perfect

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by Hughie
Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:05 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
Replies: 4386
Views: 902391

Re: Saltcoats - On This Day In History

Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette February 3, 1950 More Houses For Saltcoats Following a deputation comprised of ex-Provost J. Reid, Bailie Gourlay and burgh officials to the Department of Health at Edinburgh, Saltcoats Town Council have been authorised to proceed with the erection of a furthe...
by Hughie
Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:50 am
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Looking Back - Herald files
Replies: 341
Views: 278363

Re: Looking Back - Herald files

From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on July 6, 2011 150 YEARS AGO on July, 1861 SIX potatoes grown at West Kilbride weighted 2b 13 ounces. One weighed nine and a quarter ounces. Ayrshire had a heavy fall of rain followed by hailstones, which was unusual for the time ...
by Hughie
Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:12 am
Forum: McBlether's Lounge
Topic: Trivia Quiz - 88
Replies: 7
Views: 917

Trivia Quiz - 88

Just for fun - perhaps even educational. :roll: 1. Which USA political party does Donald Trump belong to? Republican Party 2. What is the collective name for a group of crows? A murder 3. What is the capital of Finland? helsinki 4. What is the background star grouping on the Australian national fla...
by Hughie
Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:25 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Sinner the Winner
Replies: 2
Views: 583

Re: Sinner the Winner

Not my prefered spectator sport, Jean. As well as Aussie rules football I'm beginning to enjoy watching basketball. I wonder if Sinner has a Scots/Irish background - notice the red hair?
:puter