I remember when

[Annie]

That was too cute! I remember some of them things myself!

[Milldam]

I remember when my father returned from the beaches of st valery.
I remember listening to the radio on sunday nights.
I remember wilfred pickles/hughie green/michael miles.
I remember tiffin bars.
I remember neil mcarthurs dance band.
I remember ten pounds assisted passage to australia.
I remember cn163

[general jack o'niell]

that number should be familiar? came new wae a coat oh varnish?

[bill]

wonder about the Wee Toon thing............not doubting or disagreeing with Gizmo or Milldam but a few long standing C/town people and old timers have said to me that the WT tag was recent.........I don't know.

I agree with the old timers.When we left the town in 69,neither Catherine or myself had ever heard the town being called "the wee toon".

[£3.73]

I don't know when (or from where) the "Wee Toon" thing came about either.

( If it's supposed to be a nickname, then it isn't in keeping with Campbeltown-esque.
Nicknames from these parts are usually droll, nonsensical,random or often based on nothing contained in any English dictionary. )

Personally, I don't like it, never did ... and hence I never use it... EVER.

If anyone ever asks, "I'm from Campbeltown" ... the end.

[£3.73]

I much prefer "THE TOON" ... now that has attitude !!!

[ionnsaigh]

A mind playin in the back
kick the can
raken the midges
gettin hudgies
The Stinky Ocean
fleas
dugs cats
three picture hooses
the auldest hoose
royal infirmary
backcourt singers on sunday
the chapel
school
burnin dross oan the fire
holes in ma shoes
sun ray treatment
school mulk
lice fawen aff a pals heid
a wee boy drownin in the canal
room an kitchen
sleepin under an auld coat
a mind dogin the chapel
priest sayin a wid go tae hell
hivin the body o christ in mae mooth
burst sewerage pipes in the close
men drunk oan the friday
gang huts
cuttin wid tae sell as sticks fur the fire
lum fires
penny caramels
penny bubble gum machines way a card
horse and carts
tea chests boxes foil lined
scammels
straw
soot
coal bunker in lobby
gas street lamps
black mawryer
scaffey
four weans in a bed
and the cat hivin kittens in the bed
a new gun an torch fur Christmas
empty ginger bottles
men pishing in the sink
nae locks on toilet doors
broken windaes in the toilet
news paper tae clean yerself
drunken fights
specail fish supper fur ma da oan a friday
chips fur dinner an fur supper
folk robbin their ain gas meters
chappin doors an runnin away.

[bill]

Personally, I don't like it, never did ... and hence I never use it... EVER

Agree 100%

[Milldam]

I remember james o'hara's punts
I remember robert wylie's boat yard
I remember lucky number sweets
I remember irish showbands in the vic
I remember marlin's taxis
I remember the stances at dalintober
I remember cn163

[linda_j]

I remember james o'hara's punts

James was my great uncle

[Bobbie En Tejas]

what are cn's?

[Sweltered]

CN is the port identification letters for Campbeltown, So, for fishing vessel registry, it would have the port letters, then a unique number. Some numbers were associated with families. Ours had CN45 on 2 boats.

Other ports in the area are:- TT-Tarbert, BA - Ayr (Ballantrae), OB - Oban.

In the Clyde, fishermen would run a mile from an connortation of "!3", but Orkney fishermen want a "13" number. I knew of several K (Kirkwall) boats like this, some of them were quite creative.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Thanks for that..

[Annie]

Bobbie - on the front of the boat, the fore, it would have CN - then the number - then usually, the name of the boat gilded on both sides of the front for identification. Usually, the fishermen can ID them by sight, but for others or for boats not from the local waters, or if one of our boats wandered to far away or, for God's sake were put asunder, it was for identification purposes, should the need arise!

[Annie]

And Bobbie never metion P I G S to a fisherman - don't ask me why - auld wives tale there somewhere I think I knew when I was little, but have since forgotten!