pod Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 I feel a pint in Witherspoons coming on... Is that a declaration of independance I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 My dad played amateur level football for Anchor AFC, so me and my brother would get dragged along there on saturdays to watch the game. Then in the evening he'd play guitar in one of the bars upstairs. Me and my bro would get perched on a couple of bar stolls in the corner with a coke and crisps each. I also remember playing table tennis in a room in the basement, think they had snooker/pool tables in there too. On the outside steps I seem to remember there being loads of benches to sit on. Trying to recall if there were tennis courts round the back or not ? This would have been around thirty years ago. it was around 30 years ago that i was frequenting the rec, i remember watching the amateurs and having a beer with them after the match on saturdays and playing table tennis and snooker in the basement, there wre indeed red blaize tennis courts at the back-exactly where the fives pitches are situated, what is your dads name ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Only been inside once.To watch Chocolate and Cream perform. (football night out) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Today's pic is Sid's favourite place to hang out ..... PICTURE 25 now paisley arts centre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pod Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 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 Your right.It was Coffee(chocolate just sounded sweeter)I got pulled for that before.But unfortunately not by Coffee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintargyll Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 now paisley arts centre had many a nice pint in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FS Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 What is your dads name ? His name *was* Eddie McLaughlin as alas he has been deid for ten years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 (edited) . Edited February 14, 2016 by bluto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 His name *was* Eddie McLaughlin as alas he has been deid for ten years. not one i remember, i remember ronnie arthur, ian nicolson and prob would recognise a few more if i was prompted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E=Mc2 Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 No HSS, Camphill. However I seem to remember also competing at Seedhill? For the first time on this thread Bluto you are wrong. 'Toward' were the Athlete Kings Wrong guys, Davaar were the kings. Although I do remember Ailsa being full of guys light on there loafers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E=Mc2 Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Unusually for me, I was wrong. Just looking at the image it's not the Rec but some other cricket grun... Kelburne CC, anyone? Is there only 10 in a cricket team? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Unusually for me, I was wrong. Just looking at the image it's not the Rec but some other cricket grun... Kelburne CC, anyone? Looks like kelburn to me, facing out onto the grass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Picture 23 is The Former Anchor Recreation and Social Club ( The Rec ) we paid 5p per week deducted from our wages when I was employed by J&P Coats at the Anchor Mill ? The building was bought by a local Scrap Dealer ( John Pitt ) who turned it into a Five aside Football venue . that's why it would have been called "the pitz" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 (edited) . Edited February 14, 2016 by bluto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 It makes you go blind. That what we thought too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Today's pic is Sid's favourite place to hang out ..... PICTURE 25 I thought that was in Kelvingrove park after dark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Think they did. Early sixties. Moredun,Gleniffer,the other two I think were called Brediland and Amochrie or something like that. Maybe someone else will recall and correct me. Those houses must have fallen down by the time a got there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 That what we thought too Did it put you off? Naturally, none of we Camphill boys were w*****s. Unless you know different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintargyll Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjUxn0Ukjo&sns=fb older people will like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcd54 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Looks like Aintree to me, at Beecher`s Brook, or the Chair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FS Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjUxn0Ukjo&sns=fb older people will like this This one has been broadcast more times than the opening sequence to 'Taxi'. F*ck it, I'm gonna re-shoot this magnum-opus at the first opportunity. Cast of thousands, apply here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 This one has been broadcast more times than the opening sequence to 'Taxi'. F*ck it, I'm gonna re-shoot this magnum-opus at the first opportunity. Cast of thousands, apply here... Needing a taxi tae shoot ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Sid Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Today's pic is Sid's favourite place to hang out ..... PICTURE 25 Many an old grammarian has been bummed in that graveyard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjUxn0Ukjo&sns=fb older people will like this Bizarre so much has changed and yet so little a good one for lovers of old cars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted March 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 (edited) PICTURE 25 was indeed the Laigh (Low) Church. Some more info here.... History of the Old Laigh Kirk The Town Councillors began wishing for a Parish Church of their own soon after 1730. In 1733, they negotiated the purchase of two tracts of land, Aikett's Yard north of St Mirren’s Burn (now culverted) and Causeyland, or the Meikle Yard south of it, and also two or three houses in Causeyside. The southern part was the wider and this was for the Church. Meanwhile they negotiated with the Earl of Dundonald, patron of the existing Abbey Church, and the existing Presbytery, for leave to 'disjoin' a separate parish. The New Street was laid off in 38 building lots which were auctioned profitably on 15th March 1734. (Some of these lots were afterwards subdivided.) Building of the Church began in 1736 (local masons Young and Hart contracted) from the proceeds. In 1738 the church was open and the rev. Robert Mitchell came from the Abbey, where he had been the second minister (the Abbey, with a huge parish, had two ministers.) Among the 18 elders composing the new Kirk Session were several bailies and other important people. Their minutes show that they worked in close co-operation with the council to enforce the puritanical discipline of the time on the Burgh’s inhabitants. The most famous person associated with this Church was Dr John Witherspoon, the next minister but one after Mitchell. He was a controversialist who tried to enforce the strictest moral standards both nationally and locally, making war on Sabbath-breakers and stage plays as well as on more serious crimes (for which the police force was quite inadequate). By that time some of the richer parishioners were much less willing to be disciplined; and when Witherspoon brought some of them before the Presbytery for blasphemous behaviour (particularly parodying the Communion Service while drunk) they employed a lawyer, got a verdict of Not Proven and then successfully sued the minister for libel because he had printed a sermon denouncing them. Not surprisingly, Witherspoon yielded to the repeated solicitations of his American admirers to go and become the Principal of Princeton. From then on (1768) he became a part of American history; he was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. The development of 1733 was the start of a period of rapid growth in the town. There soon had to be two more Burgh churches serving a High and a Middle Parish and this church was then the Laigh (Low) Church. The burn just north of the churchyard was the parish boundary; George Street and Causeyside were this church’s parish. By the end of the century the congregation was outgrowing the Church, which was in any case old-fashioned and damp. After the Napoleonic Wars it was replaced by St George’s Church, visible at the end of Shuttle Street though now converted into flats. The Old Laigh Kirk remained Burgh property and was available for letting to smaller religious bodies, (Paisley was very tolerant of dissenters so long as they were Protestant), for Sunday Schools, etc, and as a public meeting hall. It was so much appreciated for this last purpose that when the Town Council proposed in 1833 to sell it there was an outcry. Eventually a group of local individuals bought it so as to retain it as a public meeting place. Shortly afterwards the Evangelical Union leased it; this was a body formed in Kilmarnock in 1835 which differed from all the Calvinist churches on some fundamental points of doctrine and had a small but keen membership in Paisley. By the 20th century the the E. U. congregation had moved away, leaving the old church, once again, in the hands of the local authority. In 1987 it was re-opened as an Arts Centre, for which the shape in which the last Church rebuilding had left it was reasonably well adaptable. I'll call these three next shots PICTURE 26A 26B and 26C as they all relate to the same event that has already been covered - The Glen Cinema Disaster (Page 9 of this thread). The fist A shows the memorial in Hawkhead Cemetary, the second B shows the cinema behind and above the furniture shop and C shows the cinema/Good Templar Halls from Dyers Wynd. Edited March 18, 2012 by Sonny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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