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Cold Winters...Susanne in Ottawa sent us "a photo, which my Mum sent to me, along with others of my childhood in Ayr, of the River Ayr, FROZEN OVER and what looks like quite a bit of snow on top of it.It's a photo of my Mother, brother Tom, (A Former Holmston Pupil), and myself standing on the middle of the River Ayr. I'm not sure which year it would be but since I have a brother born in 1948, I would say it is before then, else he would be in the photo also. I'm sure some of your older former pupils could come up with a date!!" We'll be interested to hear... 1947 was a very cold winter in many parts of Britain, so it may have been in that year. All this is strange for people living in Ayr now. The River Ayr hasn't frozen much like this for quite a few years, probably because of Global Warming etc. June Kelly (now Ireland) did tell one of the editors, at the FP Reunion, that the River Ayr had been frozen about five years ago. And just to prove it can still happen, in January 2001 there was some ice on the river at the foot of Mill Brae, until a few days ago. But it didn't look safe enough to walk on! But other Former Pupils remember it happening more than once... From 1935-41 - "I can well remember six of us, in a half circle, getting the belt from the Headmaster for daring to go down to the 'Nether Mill' at the foot of the Mill Brae to watch the breaking up of the ice on the River Ayr, after he had expressly forbade anyone to go near the Dam. Unfortunately we were 'cliped' by the 'Janny'. He was quite right, of course, but we never spoke to the 'Janny' for weeks." - Jim Fairlie, 1935-41. From 1941 or later, perhaps at the same time as Susanne - "While growing up in Ayr, I wandered wide and freely and found it a place of endless fascination. I often visited Burns Cottage which in those days cost 6d to enter, spent hours at the docks looking at the Irish coal ships, borrowed books from the Carnegie Library, skated on the River Ayr in winter and generally enjoyed myself. - David McRobbie, (evacuated to Holmston from Glasgow, 1941).
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