Day: June 21, 2016

What more can be be said regarding our Fair weather over the last few years. Where has Lady Luck been?

” IF YER no’ a Granger, yer a stranger” or so the saying goes, I have to admit to being

HOW unfortunate with the weather we have been this past year or two and how disheartening it must have been

IN 1960, or thereabouts, I used to visit all local primary schools in Bo’ness in my capacity as an itinerant

THE Band is now assembled into ranks of four abreast the road, just in front of Craigmaillen Church on Braehead.

As most Bo’nessians will know, the town was once Scotland’s second port ( and reported as such by the 17th

THE crowd of ‘20.000’ packed the Glebe Park for the crowning ceremony and suddenly I was the focus of attention.

FOR weeks now our news from home had been full of Bo’ness Fair. We were on first name terms with

Born and brought up ” up the Braes “, where the land can be somewhat marginal, we were able to

“Write me 2,000 words on the Fair Days you reported when you were with the Bo’ness Journal”. The request was