COULD YOU HELP PLEASE.....

Post by **Liz Turner** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:44 pm

Ellen

Further to Russell's post:-

http://www.paisley.org.uk/attractions/library.php

that's the website for Paisley library.

Liz

ELLEN 44 · Post by **ELLEN 44** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:57 pm

Thank you Liz have had a look at the site looks good so i will spend some time on it on friday thank's again to everone who give me the help from Ellen

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:00 am

Oh heavens. I make that 75 people in 16 homes on one stair. Is that 4 homes per landing with one toilet on each landing (I so hope the Reids and the Manns weren't on the same landing) or even one outside dry toilet? And I've been moaning about not having an en suite with just 3 people in the house. . . . . . .

Lorna

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:23 am

Hi Lorna

Sounds awful to our sophisticated ears doesn't it.
Just to compound things

In some of the older closes the toilet on the half-landing was for the families above AND below that landing. No chance to get a fly read of a newspaper there

I did stay in a house where the toilet was at the foot of the garden. Lovely in summertime but not a fun experience in winter

Most fun as a child though was the summer house where the toilet was in a tree suspended over a river.

The good old days

Russell

Post by **SarahND** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:35 am

Russell wrote: Most fun as a child though was the summer house where the toilet was in a tree suspended over a river.

Was that an actual "toilet" or just a free-fall into the river?

Reminds me of trains I used to take in India where the "toilet" was just a hole where you could see the rails whizzing by (using it when the train was stopped was not allowed!) I was always afraid I would drop my purse or passport or something and have to trudge along the rails looking for it

Regards,
Sarah

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:17 pm

Hi Sarah

It was a wooden plank with a hole in it and a fre fall down to the river 10 feet below.
To a six year old it always felt as though you would slip through the opening and join the trout - and other stuff - far below. Scary but fun.

Can you imagine the outcry these days.
1st visitor Environmental Services
2nd visitor Building Control
3rd visitor Health & Safety officer
4th visitor Local Health Authority Representative
5th visitor Child Protection Agency
6th visitor Demolition company to knock down the house

Russell

ELLEN 44 · Post by **ELLEN 44** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:42 pm

Hi Russell, i enjoyed reading about what you did as a child.My dad James Smith Anderson was born on the 14/12/1929 in Greenock he stayed till 1950 thats when he came to West Yorkshire he died on the 31/05/1988 he did talk about his best mate Tommy Brycland. My grannie Elizabeth stayed there until 1960 she died July 1989 in West Yorkshire.my grannie talked about a lot of things she once told me she cleaned the queens ships i used to laugh my head of when i was younger (thinking what ever grannie) it was only when i got talking to my uncle her son that all the time when i was a kid my grannie was telling the truth i so wish she was here today so i could say sorry grannie. it was nice reading your bit about your childhood regards Ellen