This is my Brother Gordon Steele with his pals at the Cattle
show in the early 60's. The picture on the left is Tam McKewan and Gordon. On
the right back row is Gordon, John Houston and Bobby Fowler. Front row is Sam
Peden, Jackie Haliday and Thomson Boyle.
This about 1963 left to right: William Ross, George
Stoba on the summer seat behind ,
Madeline McCrae, Marion Faulds, Anna Aitkin.
Thanks to Colin Chisholm for this picture of the old mill fire.
Makes you wonder if the guy on the wall was the one who started it.
Residents of Wood Street, perhaps in early to mid
1930's. I recognise some of the faces although I can't put the names to them. I
think this is Ina Jackson's grandmother with the baby on the front row second
from the right. And the 4th from the right front row might be Mrs. Gibson and
one of her boys. First on the left back row reminds me of the Dicks.
Hope someone can put some names to them. I look
forward to your input.
Let me know if you see your granny here. It's
reminding me of how we used to get some nice warm summer days when we were young
with the tar melting on the roads. There is a big scratch through picture I
tried to clone out but the image of the woman on the back row 5th from the right
is damaged beyond repair.
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Picture of Catrine Gala Day circa 1955
Anyone know the missing faces. I have had
feedback from Audrey Viviani(nee) McGowan and Chris Maneley
back row left to right: Iris
Clanachan, Flora Miller, Francis Kiernan, ?, Morag McMurtry, ?, May Paterson, Elizabeth
Park, ?. front row: Eileen Kyle, ?, Elizabeth
Anderson, Netta McIlvanney, Jean Welsh, Wilma Wotherspoon, ?, Peeping
through Janet Fulton, Sandra King, Betty Weir, Audrey McGowan.
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Picture of Catrine Gala Day circa 1951 "The Broons"
float. I may be wrong, but I think many of the participants were living
on Riverside Cres.
Bairn - Jean Welsh
Maggie - Sarah Welsh
Horace - Jimmy Kyle
Daphne - Gina Kyle ???
Right to left: William Harvey, Alex Leitch, Eddie
Hall, ?, Sarah Welsh, ?, Jimmy Kyle,
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I
did a lot of retouching with this old photo so here is the original.
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Thanks to Doug Hood for this photo from when he was a
youngster and lived in St.Cuthbert Street. He has named them as follows.
I can't pinpoint the date but it is around early fifties, or very late
forties. We were in a parade representing St Cuthbert Street.
Back row left to right - Robin Stevenson, Stuart Dennim, Tommy Reid, Jock Weir
and David Smith.
Front - Bert Reid, Ewing White, Jim Richmond, Robert Gemmel, Billy McKay,
Douglas Hood.
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And this is another from Doug Hood of some skaters playing hockey at what
looks like Shawwood farm on what we always called Shinuck, the pond on the top side
of Catrine, heading out to Auchinleck. The only one I recognise is Jimmy
Miller. Dougie recognises the following: Jimmy Millar, Bert Reid (we
called him Buff)' ?, Jack Kennedy, ?, John Thomson.
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Barney McDowell. I used to enjoy a blether with Barney
and Comic Wilson and wee Willie Duncan when they walked up the howfort
road to Catrine House when I was there when Jock smith had the nursery. |
SamTomlin and Billy Rafferty from a Chronicle photo of the early days of the
junior fishing
competitions at Catrine Angling club. Contest was
the reel thing. Reeling them in were.
The full list of winners as follows:- Under 10s- 1st
Liam Tomlin, 2nd Zoe McMurdo, 3rd Tammy McMurdo. Under
16s- 1st Scott Campbell, 2nd Ian Raffery, 3rd Robert Richmond. |
Here they are restocking the rivers. Billy Raffery and Jimmpy Kyle. |
Well I leave you to work it out for yourselves who the
blond bombshell is. the wee boy with his thumb in his mouth looks a bit
frightened with the whole thing. Lots of faces now gone but it's good to
see them again in their happier days. |
This looks like Billy Rafferty and the old guy from the beech grove
garden here. They must have been on the telly promoting the restocking of
the waters. |
The Bowling green with Lynne Brown, Wattie McClure,
Greta Tomlin, Nettie Herbertson, and ? Maybe Jimmy Currie. Thanks
again Sam and Greta for the Photos. |