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Many thanks to Brian Roxburgh for this one and for all the names.
This is a photo of
Catrine School Football team,early 60s
Left
to right Back row. Sandy
Duncan, Myself, Jack Shaw (Sorn) Ronnie Stewart.
Middle row. Jack
Jackson, Mr Sinclair (woodwork teacher &manager) Willie Clark, Mr
Paterson, (headmaster) Torance Gibb (math teacher)
Front row.
Ian
Hutchison, Bryan Rodgers, Sandy Kerr ,Mat Ferguson, Bert Fulton, Billy
McIlvaney, Jim Ruddy, Willie Shields, Tommy Fowler.
Billy McIlvaney went
to Canada shortly after this picture was taken so I recon about 1962.
Many thanks to Jim Bunting for this latest photo. We all recognise the
Wilson Hall. He thought it was an old folks party but it's up for debate.
I think I recognise John Thomson who was the Headmaster of Catrine School
in the late forties at the back in the middle of the banner which says
it's the Friendly British Order Ancient Free Gardeners Society. Jim has also donated some
pictures from the bleachworks where his Grandfather came to Catrine to work as
a dyer before he was born and also some school photos from his family. I
have put his School Photos
into page 11 and 12 and the bleachworks and others
into the New Photos page.
Thanks to Inglis Thomson who says: it
is his Grandfather John Thomson and next to him is the Reverend Campbell. Frank
Caruthers, the Headmaster who took over from my Grandfather, is standing
in the back row (v. tall, full crew cut head of white hair) standing beside
Sam Gilles, who is bald and at the right hand end of the back row. Willie
Thomson is standing in the back row on the extreme left. He was
the usher at Palmers Pictures held in the Wilson Hall. I can
still hear his voice shouting at us kids to be quiet and flashing his
torch along the row to identify the noisy culprit. Sam
Hilditch, (Church elder) is standing right in the centre of the
picture (white handkerchief in breast pocket). I myself know a few more as
does Inglis but we just can't put the names to them.
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On
the left is a picture of the late Dr McCrae who died July 17th 2012 aged 96. On the right is a cutting from his retirement presentation.
Both
him and his wife were a large part of the community in the 40 years he served as
GP in Catrine. Many thanks to Frances McCrae for
sending me some pictures and newspaper clippings from her collection. I will be putting
together a collection of memories of the McCrae's in my Local
People page.
We all remember with affection Miss Scott;
Catrine's primary school mistress who took over from Miss Beg.
Many thanks to Jean Hamilton nee Welsh, Shelfie
and Sara's Grand daughter for sending me this photograph and another 6 gems from
way back. I have put her other photos into the New
Photos page. Have a look at it and see the women of wood street back
in the 1930's and the broons wagon and the carnival queen. I will add her school
photos to my school
photos page. You will notice the collection is now growing and I have
loads more to follow
of later pictures of Catrine primary classes.
School picture 1954 Left to right:
back row: Billy Paterson, Ron Cross, Wilma
Wotherspoon, Graham Welsh, Mary Cree, John Gilmour.
middle row: Jean Welsh, Moira Anderson, Sheena Ruddy,
Janet Fulton, Netta Meikle, Mary
Wallace. front row: Micheal Ewing, Scott
Mckinnon, Andrew Clark, Margaret
Kyle.
Do have a look at Jean's other photos on my New
Photos page. Below is an old program from 1951. Were you in this
concert in the Wilson Hall way back then when I was just 1 year old. click
the images for a full page view.
These ladies were part of the Findlay's group at
the celebrations of the Coronation of King George VI. in 1937. This is taken at
Catrine playing fields, now the football park. In the background you can see the
tidy gardens of St Cuthbert Street and the roof of the castle building on the
right, long since demolished. It is part of a full album which John Thomson the
former headmaster of Catrine school took and was kindly donated by his grandson
Inglis Thomson.
I have the full album of 90 photographs in the link to
Catrine 1937 album on the main menu on the left. Many thanks yet again to Inglis for all
his efforts in making these photos available in digital format. Have a browse of
the album and see what a lovely place Catrine was in those days. You may even be
able to find your parents and grandparents in some of these pictures.
Robbie Wilson sent me this photo with his mother
Peggie McVittie in it, of Catrine Primary around 1926. She lived at the Clews
then and 2 years later moved to Mauchline. I have the following names.
Top row left to right ?, George Fisher, ?, ?, ?, ?, Henry
Brown, Techy teacher at Cumnock Academy Ian Murray, Malcolm Kidd, ?, ?, teacher - Miss
Shepherd.
2nd row from top ?, ?, ?, ?, Jenny Ferguson, ?, Robbie's mum Peggy
McVittie (blonde), Jean Stewart, Jean Reid, ?, Margaret MacLean, ?, ?, ?, John
Harper.
3rd row from top ?, ?, Steel(e) ?, Isabel (McCulloch?), ?, ?, Minnie
Shaw, Rankin Park, M.Mackie or Mackay, Craigie twins, Jim Gibb. Front row
Robert Young, ?, Dick Roxburgh, ?, Jackie Ramsay, John Wotherspoon, ?, ?.
Thanks Robbie. Any one know any of the faces?
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 Many thanks to Marilyn Kidd for these two photos and the
following explanation.
The man with the wheel is my grandfather Alex Kidd who was
the blacksmith in Catrine from 1923 to 1937. The smithy was at the top of St.
Cuthbert's Street and the family lived a few doors along. Alex and his wife
Grace had four children: Alex (born 1913), Malcolm (born 1917), my father Rob
(born 1921) and Grace (born 1932). The family moved to Glasgow in 1937.
Alex shod the horses of many local farmers who sometimes paid him in
potatoes rather than part with hard cash. He also made the railings for one of
the local schools; we are not sure of the date but this might have been around
1935.
My father had very happy memories of his childhood in Catrine. When he died in
2004 my mother, brother, sister-in-law and I took his ashes to Catrine and
scattered them by the side of the river where he had played as a boy. He had a
great boyhood friend called David (Davie) Calder whose father was the butler
at Daldorch House (now a school but at that time a private house).
The photo of the three boys dates from 1924 and
was taken outside the smithy. It shows Malcolm on the left, Rob in the
middle and Alex on the right. On your website you have a school photo
from 1928 with Malcolm in the back row.
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This
is Maria McDowall when she was in her 40's. On the 5th of June 2012 Maria who
was a resident of Catrine most of her married life, celebrated her 100th
birthday.
Born
5th of June 1912 Maria Stewart Smetherhem, at Glengyron Row which was a
miners' row just about a mile from Cumnock on the Skares Road.
She was one of eight children and her mother was widowed aged only 31 and was
left to bring the children up on her own. Her mother lost her husband and
her father in the same week in 1918 from the flu epidemic.
Married
to George McDowall in 1934, She has two sons William and Jim. Maria was widowed
in 1992.
Maria
fitted in a few jobs between bringing up her family. She was a kitchen assistant
at Ballochmyle Hospital and also worked at Catrine Bleachfield and as a home
help. Maria's first job was in the "American Laundry" in Kilmarnock.
Ria,
as she was known locally, was active into her 96th year and bought her first
house at the age of 80. These last few years she has spent in Cumnock Hospital.
I have various pictures with her and her husband George in my WebPages as they
were always a very big part of the community here in Catrine. A true lady.
Congratulations Ria.
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This
picture on the left is my grandparents on my mothers side of the family.
