http://www.airdrie.net/weblog2/2006/04/02/new-name-in-famous-airdrie-folk/ Directory for Airdrie, Scotland UK Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.airdrie.net/weblog2/2006/04/02/new-name-in-famous-airdrie-folk/comment-page-1/#comment-4203 jean Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:07 +0000 http://www.airdrie.net/weblog2/2006/04/02/new-name-in-famous-airdrie-folk/#comment-4203 does any one remember the twins richmond who did swimming at airdrie baths does any one remember the twins richmond who did swimming at airdrie baths

]]> http://www.airdrie.net/weblog2/2006/04/02/new-name-in-famous-airdrie-folk/comment-page-1/#comment-3972 timaloy Fri, 01 May 2009 19:08:41 +0000 http://www.airdrie.net/weblog2/2006/04/02/new-name-in-famous-airdrie-folk/#comment-3972 Jim Traynor from the Record lived on Kipps Ave, next door to the Burns's.I lived over the back on McKenna Drive before moving to Canada in 87.I well remember Dunky Donaldson, he was a janitor at St Margarets when I went there.Was a legend in street fighting circles when he was younger.So called hard men would make the trek out to Airdrie to take oor Dunky on but always left on the wrong side of a good tannin. Dunky gave up the drink and fighting and became VERY vocal on the religous side, hosting sing songs on a Saturday afternoon in Airdrie across from the staging post and at the old Rialto bingo hall. I was a doorman at the Staging Post and Dunky would always have a laugh with us, he would be on the mike telling anyone who would listen that in his younger dafter days he would have been over giving me a go.From what I have heard I'm glad he saw the light as he would have kicked my arse with ease.Sorry to see he had passed away as he was a very nice man, after he found his Lord, R.I.P Dunky, LEGEND Jim Traynor from the Record lived on Kipps Ave, next door to the Burns’s.I lived over the back on McKenna Drive before moving to Canada in 87.I well remember Dunky Donaldson, he was a janitor at St Margarets when I went there.Was a legend in street fighting circles when he was younger.So called hard men would make the trek out to Airdrie to take oor Dunky on but always left on the wrong side of a good tannin.
Dunky gave up the drink and fighting and became VERY vocal on the religous side, hosting sing songs on a Saturday afternoon in Airdrie across from the staging post and at the old Rialto bingo hall.
I was a doorman at the Staging Post and Dunky would always have a laugh with us, he would be on the mike telling anyone who would listen that in his younger dafter days he would have been over giving me a go.From what I have heard I’m glad he saw the light as he would have kicked my arse with ease.Sorry to see he had passed away as he was a very nice man, after he found his Lord, R.I.P Dunky, LEGEND

]]> http://www.airdrie.net/weblog2/2006/04/02/new-name-in-famous-airdrie-folk/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Linny Pinny Mon, 01 May 2006 18:45:58 +0000 http://www.airdrie.net/weblog2/2006/04/02/new-name-in-famous-airdrie-folk/#comment-244 My mum remembers Wee Hary Roy. She quotes a phrase "He hurls a bara for Joey Lamarra. Who is he Joe Isy? - Naw wee Harry Roy." Apparently Joe Isy's famous saying was "A scoutered the peas a' ower the coonter" My mum remembers Wee Hary Roy. She quotes a phrase “He hurls a bara for Joey Lamarra. Who is he Joe Isy? – Naw wee Harry Roy.”
Apparently Joe Isy’s famous saying was “A scoutered the peas a’ ower the coonter”

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