Rabmacd wrote:Frosty, you're spot on with the Loch Restaurant. Think it was the Dunn family that opened it. It is now my place of work.
Are you sure about that Rab?
Surely the hill up tae the wee grammar wisnae that steep?Annie wrote:Wasn't the cenral where we would go and get a plate of chips for 50P during school lunch time, and then haul our butts way back up the hill to the Grammar???
Frosty wrote:Hi Sweltered,
It depends on which hill Annie was climbing.
The Limecraigs side was a lot steeper than the Meadows way.
Then again you could return to school via ''The Cutting '' but that was the romantic journey as it was nice and covered under the trees so you could take plenty of time , as long as the grass bank back up to the gate wasn't too muddy for the girls shoes ! !
fROSTY
LO wrote:Mentioned in passing to George MacMillan that his Haggis Suppers were being lionised on the Forum and he told me that it will be 30 years on the 15th May since the last one was fried and he took over the newsagents. I bet that makes some of you feel old! By the way, he totally denies the wellington boot story
Frosty wrote:Sorry Sweltered ,
It didn't register as The Wee Grammar ! !
I stand corrected , perhaps the fact that I went to Dalintober , and that stopped us going to the Toon centre at Lunchtimes ,prevented me from considering that ?
Cheers
fROSTY
SAR TEAM LEADER wrote:Frosty wrote:Sorry Sweltered ,
It didn't register as The Wee Grammar ! !
I stand corrected , perhaps the fact that I went to Dalintober , and that stopped us going to the Toon centre at Lunchtimes ,prevented me from considering that ?
Cheers
fROSTY
Being a fellow student of that fine seat of learning, Dalintober Infants School, I remember lunchtime trips to saddell street, where at the top of Broom Brae once stood Mrs Finns shop.
Further down the street there was Joe Black's bakery. If my memory serves me right, it was later owned by the McKay family who had the grocers van. Laterly it was owned by the Tavendales.
Across the street stood the only chippie not mentioned in despatches so far; Glyndies!
I just noticed today that Blacks shop further along High street is now a flat, and has been for several months.
Thats progress for you!
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