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2060. ben - 2010-02-06 16:16:28 |
| my email address is |
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2059. ben - 2010-02-06 16:15:40 |
| billy mcgrandle was a relative of mine i have newspaper cuttings and his letters from the canadian boxing club. can i help?? |
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2058. lawrence - 2010-02-03 00:41:13 |
| Hi Peter Duncan - strange you should remember Mullen’s music store, at the corner just down from the Waverley Bar - I knew the two brother who owned the shop, it was a strange thing for Dumbarton to have - a place to buy music, strings for the guitar, my first mouth organ etc. Like most shops in the 60’s and 70’s they seemed to last a long time through generations then just dissapear in the 80’s. I suppose it was the provision of a service that they felt was their reason for being in business and to just earn a wage, unlike today where it is simply profit driven, and move on to the next earner. Every shop looks the same in every town, buy cheaper on the internet, where has the social act of shopping gone? (Shamefully a man should write this) |
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2057. Douglas - 2010-02-01 20:05:04 |
I think you are right on about the cigs. They were Irish made and the "Padre " would send me for them to McPhails. The bigger boys smoked them at the Guild Camps,we were too young to partake of such "luxuries". Hope you are well and good to see you on the site.
I met Joe and Tom Bell at the club,Joe was heading for Florida to catch some rays,I think he might have been out of luck. John Sweeney |
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2056. Douglas Liddell - 2010-02-01 15:25:21 |
| Yes John,I remember Sweet Aftons,they were a sort of flat squarish shape,a little bit dearer like Dunhill et al. |
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2055. John S. - 2010-01-31 23:53:51 |
| Does anyone remember Afton Major and Sweet Afton ciggys ?.To my knowledge there was only one shop that sold them. McPhails at the corner of William St.{Dennystown } at Dalreoch. |
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2054. Isabel(McCrimmon)Barron - 2010-01-31 17:03:26 |
| Hi,all would anyone have old photoes /postcards of Dumbarton and area please, from to the 30s-60s as this is the time i’m most interested in thankyou.isabel |
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2053. peter duncan - 2010-01-31 16:40:54 |
| On 2050 Neas mentioned the Passing Cloud Cigarettes. They were the oval ones. When we were heading for the Wee Scouts dancin on Saturday nights we used to go to that "toboganist" opposite the distillery gates and the Parish Church. Cant remember the name of it? They also sold what were called Long John cigarettes. They were about six inches long. They were my saviour as far as smoking was concerned. It was a hot night and we were cutting about being the "big I am" . We then marked the fags with a pencil to see who could drag on it up to the line and inhale. This big I am fainted and got carted outside. I came round when the local bobby stuck his cold torch doon the back of my shurt. He thought I had been drinking. He told me to go home and as I was walking across the crossing outside the hall I flaked out again. We were only sixteen. I never smoked again after that. |
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2052. Donny - 2010-01-30 23:53:37 |
| P.S.......I’m sure that the Pasha cigarette was oval shaped, or wasn’t it.......Donny |
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2051. Donny - 2010-01-30 23:47:26 |
| Neas..I remember too that men in the Blackburn and Denny’s would fashion table lamps from the tail section of incendiary bombs, this was in addition to "black market" orders for Gas pokers and fire starter shields(blowers) "for the new fashioned" interior grates, the latter being used to "draw" the fire" instead of the Daily Express......I also collected cigarette cards for a while, individually from the packs and through catalogues (Lambert and Holts) for 3/6 a set.....cost you 100 pound for a set now.....as I recall the news agent’s would pass their "regulars" a ten pack inside their folded paper, so the casual shopper couldn’t see the fags being issued at times of shortage, or , they would pull the old "you’ll hiv tae buy the pasha as well" ploy, which I’m suspecting wasn’t in line with retailing laws of the day......I marvel at the resilence and tolerance of folk in those times....great people.......Donny |
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