Singer Factory Clydebank

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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby robertpool » Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:19 am

every surname merits a tartan. l have designed loads of personal tartans for people. Give me up to 6 colours including the main background colour and l will come up with something :-)
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby banjo » Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:45 am

thank you for your kind offer Robert but I'm afraid after sixty years without one I will carry on regardless.also,i have never worn a kilt in my life. ::):
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby Henrysix » Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:54 pm

Nor but I have lifted a few!
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby robertpool » Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:17 pm

banjo wrote:thank you for your kind offer Robert but I'm afraid after sixty years without one I will carry on regardless.also,i have never worn a kilt in my life. ::):


You don't have to have worn a kilt to own your personal tartan. If you change your mind let me know. :-) The last tartan l designed and registered was 2 weeks ago for the grandson of Sir Harry Lauder and he has never worn a kilt. see: https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tarta ... ?ref=13010
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby banjo » Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:47 pm

by sheer coincidence I was in his birthplace during the ease of lockdown.portobello a favourite haunt of mine any time of year.he wrote keep right on to the end of the road after losing a son in the war. :(
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby robertpool » Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:37 am

yeh, l believe his son was John Lauder ..I could be wrong of course :-)
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby robertpool » Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:42 am

banjo wrote:note to doorstop,got your message my friend and all is tickety boo sir.note to Robert poole,got yours as well and I'm in Davidson.


I worked part time with John Menzies Distribution in Hamiltonhill. 2 brothers l worked with lived in Davidson; one now works for one of the railway companies and l cannot remember what the other one is doing.
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby banjo » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:16 am

could be the cuthill boys Robert.
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby robertpool » Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:46 am

banjo wrote:could be the cuthill boys Robert.


well done Banjo l believe it was. From memory they lived at one of the first houses on the left as you entered Davidson. Can you remember their first names?
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby banjo » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:18 pm

across from me diagonally,nice family I know one is called scott, memorys gone for the other.i know their dad Wallace very well.
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby robertpool » Thu Dec 24, 2020 2:41 am

yes that's them. I'm sure Scott is the younger one. It's the older one that works on the railway.
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby niven » Thu May 27, 2021 8:14 am

My Great Grandmother was a french polisher there...early in WWII my 14 yr old father did piece work assembling bayonets and brought home more money than did his father who was foreman of the tool and die shop.
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Re: Singer Factory Clydebank

Postby banjo » Fri May 28, 2021 7:44 am

interesting point there niven,i wonder why that was the case. :?:
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