buddiecat

my interpretation is
your tenner is a great help but we actually need more than that to get this thing over the finishing line, dig deeper if you can
a tenner is my max for no other reason than that is what this donation / subscription investment is worth to me

one of the tollbooth bases which are arranged in a circle with the dooslan stane

one of the tollbooth bases which are arranged in a circle with the dooslan stane

my previous house was right next to the chimney and when we first moved in my children were scared it would fall on the house if it blew down

now paisley arts centre

coffee and cream i believe they were called, i went to a football night out at ardeer rec where they were the act but coffee didn't turn up, i remember trying to get radio one on creams rather lovely buttons

My father was a fireman and attended the incident. These are his words;
A wee story about an event which I was involved with back in 1964, it is an eyewitness account of the Brown and Polson dust explosion on the 5th. of june 1964. when five souls lost there lives..but to start with I have to go back to the night previous, the 4th. june 1964....I was on nightshift with blue watch..when I was told by my station officer to get myself out to the thornhill hospital as my wife was about to give birth to my first born..when I arrived at the hospital my wife Jean had given birth to a son..I was over the moon with delight at having a son.
Back at the fire station to complete my shift. the bells went off at 0630am..it was a call to an explosion at the brown and polson factory, persons reported missing....the factory was an old building with very thick walls and was five stories tall...when we arrived at the scene all that was left of it was one very large pile of bricks and morter, being young and inexperianced [ I was only 24 at this time ] My first impression was that the mill had been pulled down by contractors..but I was so wrong, as I made my way to the debris I noticed a movement in the rubble when a man appeared out of it his brown overalls shredded off of him along with half his skin hanging like tatters from him..he muttered to me where his two mates were seen last..so I helped the poor soul over to the care of an ambulance crew, turned round and headed back to the scene of chaos
...I called over to another fireman [ Alec Lawler ] to come and help me to search the area that the injured workman had told me about..so together we tore at the rubble with our hands, when we heard someone groaning we cleared the mess from him and made a stretcher out of a short extension ladder,roped him in it with a personal line [which we all carried in these days ] then lowered him down to some other firemen....we then resumed searching the rubble and came to a bit of brown cloth, as we cleared the bricks and mortar from it we had found another soul..but he was dead, he was lying face down wth a massive lump of concrete on top of him..we cleared it off of him and called for another stretcher to be passed up to us, we wrapped his head in rags and secured his body with a line and lowered him to our mates down below.......another two workers were found in the remains of a works van it was completely flattened by the whole of the gable wall which crashed down on it,,it was just like a butchers shop,terrible..the last person was found two days later lying beside a three ton truck. which no one knew was there untill a bulldozer found it..the fifth worker was never found......the explosion was caused by corn dust which had gathered in the old mill over the years .. under certain atmospheric conditions this dust can glow and then ignite devouring the air inside the building, which then causes an implosion.......although this happened back in 1964 I sometimes dream of the apparition of the first workman lumbering towards me...scary...now I tried to google up this tragic event, but could find no trace of it, so I thought if there is no public record of it..then why not tell it to you all on this forum ... and hopefully lay to rest the ghosts in me.....
My father is now 72 and still has nightmares about that night, the explosion not my entrance into the world. Great thread by the way.

it was lyons the coal merchants shop at one time the lion also appeared on their lorries, there was indeed a pair of lions the other one stood in their coalyard

a lat - are you chinese and why did you go to look at a rat

Was his name Dennis?

me and my siblings were ordered to attend the co-op halls every saturday morning for elocution lessons, they must have been free with the dividend or the fact we were one of their biggest customers for food, milk , clothes - six boys and two girls, and the elocution "howw noww browwn coww" would trip off the tongue whist standing in the splendour of the hall with the erse o yer troosers aw ripped and snotters blindin ye

it was lyons the coal merchants shop at one time the lion also appeared on their lorries, there was indeed a pair of lions the other one stood in their coalyard

i am very sceptical i know , i just don't get why a guy with no previous interest in st mirren wants to put 500k up to part purchase the club, he must want to make money from it some way or another - he is a businessman after all, i have no truck with that if it keeps us progressing,One of his intial comments "the model works better in lower leagues" is a major concern, it has me thinking that his plans don't lie well with the SPL, and its rules and regs, Involving the wider community to enable access to grants etc, will provide income but if it doesn't provide enough to cover whatever he needs it for do club funds then need to be used. Another concern is that any money generated from games,TV, advertising etc, might not be available to buy players. To put it shortly it might keep us going but will it matter to him if we are in a lower league or indeed will he be happier if we are in a lower league that's my concern

i am very sceptical i know , i just don't get why a guy with no previous interest in st mirren wants to put 500k up to part purchase the club, he must want to make money from it some way or another - he is a businessman after all, i have no truck with that if it keeps us progressing,One of his intial comments "the model works better in lower leagues" is a major concern, it has me thinking that his plans don't lie well with the SPL, and its rules and regs, Involving the wider community to enable access to grants etc, will provide income but if it doesn't provide enough to cover whatever he needs it for do club funds then need to be used. Another concern is that any money generated from games,TV, advertising etc, might not be available to buy players. To put it shortly it might keep us going but will it matter to him if we are in a lower league or indeed will he be happier if we are in a lower league that's my concern

Cannae wait until REA makes it £30-a-game and keeps aw the Borrheid riff-raff out.

indeed they will blame everyone for their demise,apart from wee coisty that is, and threatening people who just want what they are owed shows the lengths they will go to,on the plus side it might help stop people giving out false public shows of support for them

it's santaponsa and dug

it's santaponsa and dug

unfortunately i dont think spirit of 77 will come back on, i do enjoy his posts,when he reacts to people calling him a c**nt, it's understandable, one of the people in question is really annoying and prompts folk to lose the plot, easy to say ignore him but when he comes out with derogatory remarks about nhs staff and public sector workers when some people have family in these professions it is hard to ignore and feel the need to react,the other person is easier to ignore. so77 is a proud man obviously and has appologised for his remarks, he will be missed, and he goes with his pride intact

I can see the Mods closing this Thread again.

He can, so f**ck off !!!

no, i can use 2 asterisks to blot out one letter if i want

Spirit of 77, we all know Dickheid spouts a load of in the main rubbish. However that said it makes it even easier to ignore it as you know sticking your head in hot fat makes more sense than he does. Ignore him like the majority do and one day he'll dissapear up that rather large ass of his

it's santaponsa and dug

i can and did, are you davidg ?