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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW - Part 2
« on: Wednesday 17 July 24 09:22 BST (UK)  »
Interested in headstones for McEwan - my grandfather and grandmother are buried here (she was Mae Ogston) and they both died sometime early 1900's I believe. 

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Lanarkshire / Re: Dymocks buildings and the Beehive Brae
« on: Thursday 02 August 18 10:46 BST (UK)  »
Hi my grandparents lived in the block opposite the school, and as a pupil there is the 1950's I woiuld stand at the gate and wave to them at playtime.  I remember the sweet shop down the brae, we used to buy penny caramels, or a poke of sherbert with a stick of liquorice!  As the jars of sherbert were used, Mrs Clow would mix them together, and sell it as rainbow sherbert.  I lived on Craigneuk Street above the Co-op shop, and my best friend was Helen Ewing who lived on Beehive Brae.  Remember using the Shields Road café as our place to meet up with friends, and also walk to Fir Park on a Saturday to watch Motherwell play.  We weren't allowed to go the picture house as it didn't have a good reputation, not sure why.  I attended Belhaven Church until I moved away in 1967.  Many hapoy memories of childhood good to see all the old photographs.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Bothwell Lunatic Assylum
« on: Sunday 20 November 11 12:58 GMT (UK)  »
I worked at Kirklands for two years in the 1960's as a secretary.  At that time a number of the patients came fromj a children's hospital in Lesmahagow - when they reached 18 )I think) they were then transferred to Bothwell.  I remember the main psychiatrist at that time was Dr Ligertwood, who also ran clinics for people referred to him.  There was a lot of emphasis on occupational therapy and a thriving garden which supplied veg and plants to the hospital.

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