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Aye... and the one and only John Toye, he was always a regular of the Atholl Arms in his unplanned post-Scotland Today days as well as his pre-Scotland Today hours
Remember getting a photo with Freddie Starr before a mid-80's Scotland v England game at Wembley. He was with Scott Fitzgerald (?) (had a no.1 with Yvonne Keeley..."If I had words")........anyhow, he tried to get into the photo and my mate Kenny shoved him down the stairs unaware of his minor celeb-...
I live in a 1903 tenement which was refurbished 12 yrs ago (just prior to me moving in). Each close in the street has a unique colour scheme, i.e they painted over all the tiling with cheapo paint, ruining the unique character of the close. Looking at these pictures makes me want to speak to the oth...
That'll be the beach where there was a small brick building that the locals painted windows and curtains on the outside and wrote "Shore Inn" across the front.
A prime spot for mooning the good folks enjoying a day doon the watter on the Waverley.
Proper local radio stations (as opposed to media superwhores like Clyde) are governed by a charter which states what genre of music gets played when and what level of talk and local issues are required. There is some leeway at evenings and weekends when specialist music gets an airing. (I saw the ch...
What happened to Third Lanark was uppermost in our thoughts when we reformed the Bankies. The important part was to get back into football as soon as possible, as the momentum would wane if we left it too long. As TC says there was no chance of me going to watch another team but I did spend my year ...
Gavinburn Primary (Old Kilpatrick)
Milton Primary (Milton, Dumbarton)
Clydebank High School
Luton College (now Luton Uni)
Dundee College of Technology (Abertay Uni?)
Stow College
The railway station served by the harbour bridge is an island platform and sits behind Scott Avenue in Bowling on the old Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway. The small gate in the picture leads in two directions. Down into the flooded foundations of the bridge where a ladder leads up to the trac...
I was kayaking into the harbour on Friday and had a wee blether with the guy that owns the large tug in the centre of the previous photo. It's an ex-Mississippi tug called Utah. He lives on board and also owns the torpedo boat moored alongside which he is planning to restore. The tug was suffering f...