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Charles Bannerman

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  1. The Caley Thistle tartan was first worn by Dougie McGilvray and Dougie Riach who had kilts made from it for the Division 3 Championship celebration function in May 1997. I haven't seen much of it since.
  2. In these days of automatic chokes, where do lady drivers hang their handbags? :015:
  3. Smee... do you not remember when "Billy Connolly" was Caley manager and won the title on the last day of the season in 1984 through a trademark Urquhart goal v Keith at Telford Street? Raymond then stepped down as manager and was succeeded by Peter Corbett but then wanted to come back as a player but Corbett turned him down. I remember that was one of the first football stories I covered. Is that not the Garage? Was the laundry not the next building up towards the canal? Did that then become Frozen Foods?
  4. Just in case anyone is in doubt, Bumbers Lane is an alternative title for Balnacraig Road, linking Fairfield Road with Telford Street along the back of the Howden End. The it named after "The Bumber" who was headmaster of Merkinch Primary School in the early years of the 20th century. It was unmetalled until about the 1970s - I certainly remember going through the potholes and the puddles on my way from Dalneigh to Telford Street on Saturdays in the early-mid 60s. I'm interested to hear SP talk of the beginnings of Dalneigh in around 46-50. That presumably would be Lilac Grove or possibly Hawthorn Drive. I suspect at the other end Laurel Ave and Dalneigh Road would also be on their way up with the Swedish Houses not too far away either. Inverness was no different from the rest of the country inasmuch as there was a chronic housing shortage to which the response was a massive building programme, including the prefabs which we hear a lot about on this thread. It seems remarkable that, hard on the heels of a war which had crippled the country economically, the post war Atlee government managed to fund so many of the Welfare promises of the Beveridge Report and came up with the NHS, Council Housing etc etc. There was definitely post war austerity but at the same time so much was done in so many respects. I'd be intrigued to know how they financed it.
  5. The new section of road is due to link the present distributor road (which would be realigned) with the A82. Thuis link up would take place near Torvean. The two options discussed at the Council on Thursday were a high level bridge and a much more expensive 0.9km tunnel (?100M). By I think 41 votes to 21 the Council went for the tunnel. It so happened that earlier in the day Holyrood announed the canelleation of EARL (Edinburgh Airport Rail Link) and perhaps HC thought it might get its hands on a slice of the ?600M that won't be spent on that.
  6. Gordy... the very same Iain Clark. Stayed in St. Mungo Rd. Buckett... I never knew Gordy Bennett, although i know he died the very same day as my mother. I happened to be speaking to his widow Avril last night who was with her in laws in the Heathmount. Oops... I'm only now noticing that if you scroll down you get all the names! :029:
  7. I was surprised to see the photo was as early as 76-77. Others in there include Billy Urquhart, Ray MacKintosh, Alex Main, Tichy Clark(?), Billy Sanderson, Hamish Munro, Norman Miller, John Stewart, Charlie Gair, Hugh Grant, Rodwill Clyne, Gordy Fyfe. Unfortunately, of these Messrs Miller, Gair and Clyne are no longer with us.
  8. I don't suppose "TheresNoEsInBlack" conceals an anonymous former Jaggie who is as a result in denial about who Tommy is!?
  9. My mother used to get her groceries delivered weekly by Willie Ross who had the shop up by the canal. He would phone her for the order and a couple of hours later it would be delivered personally. Each month when she paid the bill there would be a box of chocs thrown in as well. Willie was our family supplier of MacKintosh's Lemonade... remember the Queens Cup? But eventually, despite the personal service, Willie just couldn't compete with supermarket prices and we had to get our stuff from the Coop. On a Saturday when Caley were at home, Willie would come out of the shop for a wee while and watch the game standing on the wall at Greig's garage.
  10. "The radio commentator" said Tokely set up Wyness.
  11. Sportsound 810 medium wave - Commentary from John Barnes on Hamilton v Kilmarnock plus pre match, half time, full time updates etc from me at the Caledonian Stadium. Programme is on air at 7:15.
  12. You mean, apart from events of the last couple of weeks, like the Caley stand (1950), the Clach stand (1988) and the Thistle stand (1995)?
  13. I had the goal clip sitting nicely in my BBC local sports bulletin for this morning, but unfortunately we had a technical problem and the thing didn't get broadcast! It's a wonderful clip from Scott Davie but, to save anyone asking, I'm afraid, for copyright reasons, I don't have the authority to release it to anyone.
  14. I was wondering exactly the same thing on Sat morning as I was wandering up Baron Taylor's St. (past a woman in a Hearts strip with a fag in each hand outside the Keg as it happens). When the merger battle was sorted, Thuistle also signed their Social Club over to CT and as I recollect the it was sold some years ago. I don't know who the present owners are but as far as I could see the place is not currently in use. However Caley Thistle bearing the cost of city centre premises seems a bit unlikely perhaps? Quite a good story from a news point of view, though, that Inverness fans go into a major national retailer in the city centre to be told they can only do Celtic strip numbers.
  15. Rare mistake by BBC Sport there! The score was actually 3-1 because Craig Brewster wasn't the only veteran substitute striker to come on and score in Inverness yesterday afternoon. Victor Smith got a late 3rd for the Fort which is referred to in the BBC Website report but they've forgotten to update the scoreline.
  16. As the American Basil Fawlty said "You started it, you bombed Pearl Harbour."
  17. A local hoop confronted me today with the highly original one liner "5-0!" I looked at him querulously for a couple of seconds before, appearing to see the light, replying "I knew that sounded familiar. Bratislava - July 2005!"
  18. "Young" and "Gifted"? You're not telling me that the former Jags support was able to muster an example of each of these virtues are you? :015:
  19. On the grander scheme of things, erections like this are simply f@rting into the wind. It would take an incredibly large number of them at stupendous cost to create even a tiny increase in the planet's total area of cultivable land. And if there is a shortage of land in relation to the number of people that need fed, how the h?ll are they going to find the space for these much publicised "conscience savers"... the trees which people are meant to feel guilty enough to plant every time they disembark from a plane. Add to this the space needed to grow "biodiesel" and a land shortage soon builds up. Indeed food prices are already beginning to increase, apparently because of a shortage of land since so many green bandwagon drivers are using it to grow biodiesel plants. A lot of this biodiesel stuff is just a huge con since for that to have any effect you have to assume that there is a limitless supply of land on which to grow more green material - which there isn't. This whole "carbon" issue is beginning to become just a bit silly with far too many people jumping on the bandwagon to try to make a quick buck or build up a reputation. Here are one or two suggestions if you want to save the planet. 1) Don't reproduce. The ultimate cause of CO2 emissions is PEOPLE, so the problem really is the fault of folk like Al Gore who has procreated all of FOUR CO2 producing children. The condom will save us! 2) Don't do your garden or cut your grass because doing so reduces the capacity of the planet to photosynthesise. 3) Send the entire management corps of Ryanair back to the building site.
  20. CD... there was a severe nationwide shortage of housing immediately after the war, made worse by a rapidly growing population of baby boomers. One of the solutions to this was the Prefab and permanent council housing estates also went up all over the place. I would imagine that the recently elected Labour government, with all its Welfare State ambitions like the NHS, would also have had public provision of housing high on its list of priorities. Much of Dalneigh seems to be from the fairly immediate post war period although some parts like Dalneigh Road and Laurel Avenue may have predated the Swedish houses such as the one which we moved into (and which was not split new) in 1958. There may have been an element of returning soldiers from big cities but I do remember Dalneigh as being predominantly Invernessian and certainly the influx was nothing like central belt oil workers into Alness in the 70s. As a result of all this, Dalneigh Primary School was built in the 50s (and its architectural first cousin Hilton to cater for a parallel development there) and when I was a pupil at Dalneigh from 58-65 it had two classes in ever year plus a senior remedial class giving a total of around 600 pupils. If younger readers are questioning my totals, 40 odd to a class was commonplace then! Inevitably there were lots of young families then but as time went on the same people tended to stay there, no longer with primary aged kids so the roll of Dalneigh School shrank into the 70s.
  21. As it happens I've just returned from a Rotary Club talk from Councillor Dave Henderson who gave a showing of the old slides originally collected by the legendary Inverness local historian Joseph Cook. One of these showed Cromwell's Tower towards the end of the 19th Century and the slaughterhouse (or "abattoir" if you want to translate that into more contemporary English :015:) is clearly visible behind the tower. It's a pity that the slide didn't have a bit more scope since it may have included the Citadel ground. I must take the opportunity to ask Dave if any of the other slides has any detail of the ground in it. I would imagine that the slaughterhouse was bound to have smelled of animal decay and it would have been worse in earlier days since there was also a tannery by the riverside opposite the old baths. That apparrently stank to high heaven as well and a SW wind would have blown that pong in to join that from the slaughterhouse. There was also a sequence of slides from the 1860s onwards showing the Meeting Park and Victoria Park (now Smith Avenue, Maxwell Drive, Bruce Gardens etc) on the opposite side of Glenurquhart Road. You can see how that area developed with the construction of the Bishop's palace (Eden Court) on one side and steady changes in Victoria Park on the other. Dalneigh, as viewed from Tomnahurich, is just a farm and in the main was not really developed until the 50s. It was a bit scary to realise that I remembered much of the dertail in the old slides (suspension bridge, the Duff Street slums where my mum used to threaten we'd go and live if I was bad, Castle Tolmie etc) and I also remember being at one of Jo Cook's lectures when I was a youngster.
  22. Kiltarlity.... what EXACTLY do you mean by that statement :symbol_question: (Which, with a bit of lateral thinking, reminds me that we've not had many posts from Footballer's Wife for a wee while!)
  23. Now that's a bit ironic! Presumably this was in Canada so, unless it happened to come from an Indian or an Inuit, there's a fair chance the individual concerned originally came from the same place as you did.... just a couple of generations earlier.
  24. Didn't Ally MacLeod make a similar prediction about the 1978 World Cup?
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