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Dumfriesshire / Re: Greenbrae Loaning Dumfries
« on: Friday 30 October 09 12:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, it's flower power again!

I lived in Greenbrae Loaning from 1950 to 1967, so in fact it was 17 years, not 15 as I previously said.

Didn't know that the land the new council houses were built on belonged to the Carson's.  That's interesting!

I believe the house the Carson's lived in now belongs to Kathleen Scaife, who was brought up by her aunt Miss Wilson, who ran a small private children's nursery just across the road from there.

I remember when the new park at Noblehill was built and the diggers etc were there creating the football pitches.

We used to ride our bikes up and down the paths in the older park, I remember the swings and the maypole.

 All our games were played in the road -  hopscotch (beds we called them) marbles, hula hoops, rounders, tennis ( with a line drawn in chalk for the net), roller skates, slides (on the ice, as you said).  We could do that then as the volume of traffic was much less than today.

 Aye, it was  grand  to be a child at that time.  We didn't have much, but we didn't weary and were never bored, we made our own entertainment. Happy days!   




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Dumfriesshire / Re: Greenbrae Loaning Dumfries
« on: Wednesday 28 October 09 14:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hi All

Bert I think will be Bert Dickson who had  brothers Tony and Logan?  Tony lives not far from me and is married to Christine. I see Logan occasionally, walking his dog on the Annan Road.

Lynda Cannon did have red hair, as did her sisters Anne and Irene, while Susan had fair hair. Sad to say Lynda died earlier this year and I met up with her sisters and family at her funeral.

I also remember that Mr Johnstone (Schooner) made haggis for the butchers.  His son Stanford had a pub in Dumfries and his daughter Ruby also lives fairly near me in Georgetown. There was another  daughter, but I can't remember her name.
 
That's all for now folks .   Flower Power

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Dumfriesshire / Re: Greenbrae Loaning Dumfries
« on: Monday 26 October 09 20:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I lived in Greenbrae Loaning for 15 years, and remember well Bryden and Beth Goldie, Roger Owen who had a young brother, (but I can't remember his name) also the Cannon family, The Turnbull twins Ian and Allan, who lived in Kirkowens Street, but spent much of their time at their Grannie's house ( she was Mrs Young who had a daughter Margaret)  the Currie family, and the Johnstone's too, and the Dickson family.  I also remember most of the families who lived in Greenbrae Place and of course Kiddie Houston the butcher, his sons John and Bert (newspaper reporter) and let's not forget Bob Goodwin's shop just round the corner on the Lockerbie Road. 

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