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My earliest memory is of sitting in my pram, GNAWING on my mother's pink nylon comb (I was probably teething!). For years I couldn't look at that comb without getting a strange taste in my mouth!

I have several memories of getting the train to Helensburgh or Craigendorran to get the paddle steamer to Blairmore where my maternal grandparents lived and I have a good few memories of them and the house and of various things that happened there, such as the time a flock of sheep getting into the garden and my mum shooing them out again. Or me and my big sister climbing up the spiral stairway and into the tower room - which you entered via a trapdoor in the floor.

Then there was the time when we went into the back garden and helped Gran collect brambles.

There are several more memories of Blairmore, but....my grandfather died on my third birthday and my gran sold the house, so all my memories of there must have been formed while I was only 1 and/or 2 years old!

 

Back then there were regular paddle steamers on the Clyde and there were various places at which they called: Craigendorran, Helensburgh, Gourock, Greenock, Blairmore, Dunoon, Inellan.

Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing
Santa Baz posted:

My first memory is standing at a bus stop with two * big kids* waiting to go to private pre school ....I must have been about 3/4 

My earliest memory is of me, with my nana at Glasgow Central Station and there were steam trains. My mum reckons I was 2/3yrs old. There are no photographs of it so it's definitely a memory.

Yogi19
Yogi19 posted:
Santa Baz posted:

My first memory is standing at a bus stop with two * big kids* waiting to go to private pre school ....I must have been about 3/4 

My earliest memory is of me, with my nana at Glasgow Central Station and there were steam trains. My mum reckons I was 2/3yrs old. There are no photographs of it so it's definitely a memory.

  Yes, I have happy memories of steam trains too ....being sent to my nannas , under the care of the guard , when my mum was in hospital for several weeks when sister was born .....it was a 6 hour journey ... I was 5 .....oh how things change  

Baz
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Santa Baz posted:
Yogi19 posted:
Santa Baz posted:

My first memory is standing at a bus stop with two * big kids* waiting to go to private pre school ....I must have been about 3/4 

My earliest memory is of me, with my nana at Glasgow Central Station and there were steam trains. My mum reckons I was 2/3yrs old. There are no photographs of it so it's definitely a memory.

  Yes, I have happy memories of steam trains too ....being sent to my nannas , under the care of the guard , when my mum was in hospital for several weeks when sister was born .....it was a 6 hour journey ... I was 5 .....oh how things change  

lol Changed days indeed, Baz 

Yogi19
Yogi19 posted:
Santa Baz posted:
Yogi19 posted:
Santa Baz posted:

My first memory is standing at a bus stop with two * big kids* waiting to go to private pre school ....I must have been about 3/4 

My earliest memory is of me, with my nana at Glasgow Central Station and there were steam trains. My mum reckons I was 2/3yrs old. There are no photographs of it so it's definitely a memory.

  Yes, I have happy memories of steam trains too ....being sent to my nannas , under the care of the guard , when my mum was in hospital for several weeks when sister was born .....it was a 6 hour journey ... I was 5 .....oh how things change  

lol Changed days indeed, Baz 

Yes....people were far more trusting ...and perhaps more  trustworthy ...in those days  

Baz
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Santa Baz posted:
Yogi19 posted:
Santa Baz posted:
Yogi19 posted:
Santa Baz posted:

My first memory is standing at a bus stop with two * big kids* waiting to go to private pre school ....I must have been about 3/4 

My earliest memory is of me, with my nana at Glasgow Central Station and there were steam trains. My mum reckons I was 2/3yrs old. There are no photographs of it so it's definitely a memory.

  Yes, I have happy memories of steam trains too ....being sent to my nannas , under the care of the guard , when my mum was in hospital for several weeks when sister was born .....it was a 6 hour journey ... I was 5 .....oh how things change  

lol Changed days indeed, Baz 

Yes....people were far more trusting ...and perhaps more  trustworthy ...in those days  

 I think so.

Yogi19
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:

My earliest memory is of sitting in my pram, GNAWING on my mother's pink nylon comb (I was probably teething!). For years I couldn't look at that comb without getting a strange taste in my mouth!

I have several memories of getting the train to Helensburgh or Craigendorran to get the paddle steamer to Blairmore where my maternal grandparents lived and I have a good few memories of them and the house and of various things that happened there, such as the time a flock of sheep getting into the garden and my mum shooing them out again. Or me and my big sister climbing up the spiral stairway and into the tower room - which you entered via a trapdoor in the floor.

Then there was the time when we went into the back garden and helped Gran collect brambles.

There are several more memories of Blairmore, but....my grandfather died on my third birthday and my gran sold the house, so all my memories of there must have been formed while I was only 1 and/or 2 years old!

 

Back then there were regular paddle steamers on the Clyde and there were various places at which they called: Craigendorran, Helensburgh, Gourock, Greenock, Blairmore, Dunoon, Inellan.

I have early memory of Helensburgh but perhaps aged 4/5. They had public trampolines on the waterfront during the summer which I thought very exciting!

 

We holidayed in Clydebank (my parents’ hometown) and would drive up to Rosneath to visit family friends – very exciting; I got to experience trampolining and I got to see nuclear submarines on the Gare Loch and I can still vividly picture both!

Cold Sweat

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