Month: November 2019
LOVELY VALLEY WHERE THE LEVEN FLOWS
PICTURES BY CRAIG JUMP OF UTR PHOTOGRAPHY
DINO’S AND THOSE HAPPY JUKE BOX TIMES
The boys gathered in their own wee booths while the girls one was always nearer the jukebox. For the lads this turned out to be the best way of coming up with the most unoriginal chat up line ever, “ what song would you like me to play for you ?” So it was either a lot of giggling and a knock back or she would join you for selection at the jukebox and that was a good sign, softer romantic songs were chosen. The old time favourite from the boys was : Je t’aime from Jane Birkin. In contrast after an embarrassing refusal it was pressing B16 for The Animals – We’ve got to get out of this place or the Rolling Stones C23 – Can’t get no Satisfaction.
ROYAL BALLOCH
Some of you will have walked past it many times – a mound of earth surrounded by a shallow ditch, in Balloch Park just where Loch Lomond flows into the River Leven. The mound is all that’s left of the ancient Balloch Castle and the ditch was once a deep moat. From the 1200s Balloch Castle was the seat of the Earls of Lennox (later the Darnley Stewarts). Matthew, 4th Earl of Lennox, had a son – Henry Lord Darnley. Henry married Mary Queen of Scots and they had a son who became King James Sixth of Scots and First of the United Kingdom.
HAPPY ST ANDREW’S DAY TO ALL
Toorie tip to Marie Green