Beach Ponies at Prestwick 1953
Mr. McFarlane, Stew Merrilees, Grace McFarlane and my Mum, Sadie Merrilees. The families had met outside the City Bakeries and obviously got on well with each other.Imagine riding the ponies along the beach (sheer terror) although they were probably hand led.
Years later I remember leaving the 3Ps after watching The Lone Ranger and all I wanted to be was a cowboy with a white horse, I think I gallopped all the way home to Malcolm Street.
What a great photo and memory Stew.....you seem to have been consistently photographed with young ladies from your earliest years on earth........and I do believe this trend continues to this day. ~ (Scotbandit)
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I can remember doing the same thing - after watching the LOne Ranger I would ride my horse Trigger all the way down Springfield Road at a dead gallop, pulling in the reins to cross over the road. It wis grate.
Even some of us Tomboys rode our sleek horses home from the the Parkhead Picture Palace, aka the 3Peas/3P's.
ma pals mammy wis a Ice cream wummin in the the Three p,s so
Mrs Connelly got free passes
it wis the best thing ever not
only the ABC minors on a sat morning but the big pictures through the week noo a pal like that you kept even though he went tae the school next door st Michaels aye he wis a caflik lol
but he hid the free passes and I went ta the pictures a lot in those days still in touch wi Rab Connelly they stayed on Helenvale across from Calton Parish Church
a guid fella even though he wis wan o thay caflicks I meant as much to me now as id did back then
which is nothing
Boaby Irvine
my horse was named Stewart Ma wee brother by a year dead now 30+ years what a rotter i was I used to jump on his back and make him
lug me doon the road and of course when we got in the hoose he wid klipe and ah wid get a scud oan the lug for being a rotten big
brother could never figure oot why though who me mammy naw no me ah didnae dae it that was my anthem back then
Boaby Irvine
on the photo of the bank at the cross and Burgher Street there is a red box this is i think approx
where the clock was the one we all used to meet under if you were going oot oan a date or meeting a lumber fae the seterda night affore remember that clock do you ?
Boaby Irvine
These pictures and wee stories aboot our childhood days are enough to make me greet. Smashin though.
I liked the one that told about making his wee brother into his "horse" and then denying it tae his mammy when they got hame. Gave me a laugh that one!
Free ice cream frae a caflick? No wonder you kept that pal for life anonymous. Does he still get your ice cream for you?
I lived near Newbank Swings on Glamis Road until we got a new house in Easterhouse.
Notice Bobby you mentioned Rab Connelly My mother was his mothers's pal Went about their house a lot was realy friendly with Rab Connelly dont see him much now but still send each other Xmas cards. I remember also getting free ice creams at the 3 peas.
Carol Wojtas
Hi Linda M. You mentioned Newbank swings. I used to love going over there from where we lived in Edmiston St. There were lots of swings and a really high shute.
Regards, Brian C.
I spent most of the summer holidays playing in Newbank swings. Many's the time Gary Nolan and I would round up a few other weans and we would use the waxed paper bread wrapper - or maragine paper if we could get hold of it - to lubricate that old shute.
We sat on that bit of waxed paper each time we slid down the shute and by the end of the day that huge shute was practically Lethal!
But boy oh boy, how loved it! DANGER, THRILLS, EXCITEMENT. Those were the good old days.....
I remember the swing park as we local kids calledit the endless sunday games of fitba with scores that resembled basketball scores like 35 to 34 stuff like that we used to gaurd oor swings with something akin to the clan territorial disputes of long ago fending off maurauding bands of weans from the far flung reaches of the other side of springfield road and lilybank only to meet up with these same weans on monday morning at schoolwhat a time I would not change a bit of it if i could except to have stayed in touch with some of these people that's the tragedy of those times and inevitable i suppose
Boaby Irvine
Bobby Irvine...I was born and bred in mc duff st...I used to go to wullie aliens snooker hall and a watch a great snooker payer who also came from 5 glamis rd his name was jimmy allen ,,,billyboy72
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