trout Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 Oh oh .... Sandvoe actually was a beautiful loooong sandy beach! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 There were no helicopters in Shetland, and the only plane you saw was a Viscount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 Going through da auld windey Gulberwick road to get to Lerwick .... .. when was the new high road built? I do remember for sure going behind, was it the post office and phonebox, in Quarff to get to Gulberwick!? Da twisty road now to get to Wester Quarff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clanchief Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 Remember when the only beer on draught at the Grand was "Light" or Heavy" and the only lager available was bottled. You got your carry out in a brown paper bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 Mini-Milks from Wisharts were 5p! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 when Womans breast hill at sound was was womans breast hill and not womans breast hill with a bit dug oot o it beh moominhill is not a swear word pesky swear fillter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 ^ That's too funny. Sorry about that, Twerto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 Going through da auld windey Gulberwick road to get to Lerwick .... .. when was the new high road built? I do remember for sure going behind, was it the post office and phonebox, in Quarff to get to Gulberwick!? Da twisty road now to get to Wester Quarff! Late 70's. A most diabolical time to be a regular traveller on the sooth end buses, there was either single file traffic, temporary ramps and hardcore sections, or just general chaos and mayhem somewhere between Cunningsburgh and the Sandy Loch permanently for years. Another one was the laying of the concrete slabs on the street, that were taken up again a few years ago when flags were put down again. That was around the same time, more often than not it was just two men and an old MF 35 tractor slowly working their way from the Cross to the Fort. A half width street and everybody having to walk the plank to get by the missing bits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 I mind going to Islesburgh when it was in peerie Islesburgh andI think it was Monster Mash always playing on the juke box .. the jukebox still had it last time I looked. The bairn was shocked I knew the codes off by heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kavi Ugl Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 I can mind when Santa would visit Smith & Harper's at Christmas and you would ging intae a peerie grotto tae meet him and even get a peerie present fae him. Magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 Twerto - I mind that flying bump doon by the planti crub - unfortunately it was the scene of a fatal RTA in the 1970's so thankfully something was done to obliterate it. Islesburgh was formally the Central School - I mind the mad dashes at piece times to either go to Bob's Sweetie Shop in St Olaf Street, Nick Carters, (where the Golden Coach was on the hillhead - a true emporium for a youngster) or across for a warm "Whale" from Mitchell Georgesons bakery at the end of the hillhead. Boy were they filling (with the pink icing dripping aff them as we made back to class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlady Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 ^^ Or a cream cookie .. how did we survive the calories Or an ice cream from Battie on the Slotties bike .. environmental health would have a field day nowadays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 i can mind when dey were nae "cookies", but dey were things at hed names like biscuits an buns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 Can onybody mind the "Black's Water Biscuit" and does onybody have the proper recipe to recreate them because every bakery in Shetland that makes "big biscuits" come nowhere near getting them the same? There must be a baker out there somewhere that knows the secret. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppet Posted February 12, 2010 Report Share Posted February 12, 2010 Did some Orkney baker not buy the recipes for Black's biscuits and start making them? I can't be sure but there's something lurking in the depths of my mind about that happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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