Tell Us A Story

Tell Us A Story: Stories and Memories from the John Bellany Day Centre, Port Seton & Cockenzie Primary School

East Lothian Library Service, the Department of Celtic & Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2002

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This collection of reminiscences comes from Cockenzie and Port Seton's oldest and youngest residents, and spans almost a century, from the early 1900s to the present day. Members of the John Bellany Day Centre for the elderly have got together with school children from Cockenzie Primary to produce shared stories and memories that cover everything from playing with whips and peeries to computer games, and from holiday trips on the tram to Portobello to flights to Majorca. Along the way are tales of the Box Meeting, working at the oilskins factory or on the buses, growing up in mining families, courting at the Pond Hall, wartime weddings, bombs and rescues, evenings at the Scratcher and much much more.