Take a trip down memory lane in Bo'ness, Linlithgow and South Queensferry
THIS week's group are Mrs Raeburn's Kinneil Primary pupils of 1988. The photo belongs to Jamie McLean of Pennelton Place, who was 10 at the time. He is now aged 31 and a technician for BP at Grangemouth.
Among his P6/7 classmates was cousin Gillian Adamson, now Mrs Thorburn, who still lives in Bo'ness.
Top row, from left: Christopher Dewar, John Liddle, Graeme Brown, Stephen Peters, Bobby Grant. Third row: Mrs Raeburn, Jamie McLean, Robert Meichan, Neil Buchanan, Lisa Welsh, Elaine Purdie, Jamie Hamilton, Derek Sharp, Iain Aitken. Second row: Edward Graham, Paul Topping, Stuart Johnston, Andrew Aitken, Philip Galea, Neil Girvan, Jason Swinton, John Mills, Ian Fleming. Front: Gillian Adamson, Emma Kidd, Claire Hughes, Andrea Todd, Fiona Hastie, Stacey Wyngrove, Sandra Woodhead, Vicki Wright.
40 years ago
Linlithgow and District Pipe Band were unable to perform in the world pipe band championship after a bout of flu which badly hit their numbers, until there were not enough members able to compete in the competition.
The new library on the beginning of Shore Road in South Queensferry has been formally opened by the chairman of education, Mr Gavin Howieson.
A man from Winchburgh has been fined 5 for the theft of a purse from a telephone kiosk outside the Winchburgh sub-post office. The 24-year-old man had denied stealing the purse.
Four busloads of old age pensioners departed from Linlithgow to go on their anual trip to Perth. While they were in the city, the senior citizens enjoyed watching the World Pipe Band Championships which were being held there.
The Rangers and Scotland striker Colin Stein has married his fiancee, Linda Smith, in Linlithgow. The couple tied the knot in the Royal Burgh's historic St Michael's Church.
60 years ago
Mr John Watson of Linlithgow, an eyewitness to the Tay Bridge disaster, has passed away. Mr Watson was a railway porter on the Dundee side of the river at the time off the disaster 70 years ago.
It has been announced that the increase of 2000 in the libraries budget was mostly because of the new library opened in Linlithgow. Some of the money will go twards books that need to be repaired, as well as on new books.
A 17-year-old boy has been warned that if he ever returns to Bridgend he will be jailed. The teenager was given the warning after he confessed to stealing a bag of wheat and admitted four other counts of theft. He was also fined 1.
It has been decided by a newly formed association made up of drama societies from across the county that a drama festival will be held in January.
A 15-year-old boy has been fined 3 for having a single match in his possession. The boy pleaded guilty in front of Sheriff Macreggor in the Linlithgow Sheriff Court.
The West Lothian County cricket team won their first match in the county championship when they defeated Clackmannan County 200 to 67.
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Sunday 05 February 2012
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