Football boots for Christmas (Revised Version) – Part Nine
THE ALBION COMMITTEE “An we get Airth Castle Rovers in the next round,” sighed Isaac Turnbull, putting his empty pint measure back down on the...
20
Nov
13
Nov
Football boots for Christmas (Revised Version) – Part Eight
THE ALBION Winchburgh Albion, the best Under 21 team in the county by a park length, and always had been. Were certain to win The...
06
Nov
Football boots for Christmas (Revised Version) – Part Seven
BEAST of BURDEN Bob’s shovel seemed to have a mind of its own, working off a good pavement with shale that was reasonably small, and...
30
Oct
Football boots for Christmas (Revised Version) – Part Six
THE AYTON BUS The auld utility bus, with its wooden park bench seats still camouflaged from Hitler’s wartime, was near empty, but then again, thought...
23
Oct
Football boots for Christmas (Revised Version) – Part Five
COMIC CUTS Baw was sitting out on their front step on Main Street, on the first row in the Auld Raws, in line with their...
20
Oct
Football boots for Christmas (Revised Version) – Part Four
DOWN OUR WAY Trip-wire(Miss Tripney) was still going on about them writing letters to her kid-on pen-pal. Got Baw wondering what he would sound like...
02
Oct
Football boots for Christmas (Revised Version) – Part Three
BOBBY Bobby Findlay who was 12, and his very best pal ‘Spug’ Getty who was 11, were hanging about on the tarmac apron in front...
25
Sep
Football boots for Christmas (Revised Version) – Chapter Two
10 Hopetoun Place (1950) “What’s this stuff doing here?” Bob Findlay(Cairns), who had just made home, was nodding in the direction of their kitchen table...
18
Sep
Football Boots for Christmas (Revised Version) – Chapter 1
By Alan Findlay Alan ‘Baw’ Findlay could think; was always at it. The only problem was getting it down on paper, and the school had...
WEST LOTHIAN COUNCIL SAYS NO TO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP CENTRE FOR WINCHBURGH
Background Since 2004 there has been extensive consultation with this community through the Community Council about the breadth and scale of the largest housing development...