Bo'ness Fairs 1968 & 1969

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Takes you back - the days when The Store ruled with its individual Grocery ,bakery .dairy ,drapers ,furniture ,butchers ,coffee house and paint shops . The toon service green double decker buses - one went one way the other went the opposite . Findleys sweety shop opposite the bus stance at the old Salvation Army building with the little cafe in the back for the bus drivers and conductresses .Chairlie Peas shop on Dean road next to The Learigg pub.John and Tom mullhollands and Castleloan and Jamieson avenue . Shivasies at the bottom of the quarry brae where the ladies got their new frocks (a la mode - or as near as you could get in Boness) Chips a la Serafini (their ice cream was awsome) ,Rosie Corvis or Aggie Rothney ( she would buy your green shield stamps off you too).In the toon there was 3 butchers (one called the pork butchers) 3 bakers - Hasties pies yum - and Woolworths .5 Store grocery vans and 5 store bakers vans that delivered the milk first to them that wanted it in the posh hooses then went round tooting their horns all over Bo ness for anyone wanting to come out for milk and rolls - then when that was done they started all over again with bread and cakes freshly baked at big bakers at Grangepans.When you met someone they would ask you who your Grannie was and with 5 second mental calculation they new exactly who you were and could tell stories about your mum and dad - good ones to your face Chinged days noo tho