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Betty Doran Cunningham. Posted 27 Oct 2002.
My Dad was a baker for the Co-op in Glasgow, and ever year we were able to go to the Co-op camps as we called it, we had individual chalets, we were a family of seven, I can't remember if we were all in the one chalet, but we had great fun, dinner was served in a big dining room, and if you were late for dinner all the other vacationers would bang the table with their spoons, we made our own entertainment, walking all over Rothesay, and just loved going down Canada Hill which was a twisty turny road as we called it, they really were the good old days, in the 1940s. | | |
|  | Tam Cowan sen. from Motherwell. Posted 4 Feb 2003.
I can stuill remember it, it would be about 1940 I was there with my parents and two brothers and two sisters.The little sweet shop with the latticed front, also the dining room, the staff always very cheery, I imagined if we went too near the edge of the field we would fall off into the sea. From about age 14 I went to B.B camp at Ettrick bay and have hardly missed a year since, either for a week or just day trips.
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| | Gordon Chisholm from New Zealand. Posted 23 Mar 2004.
Well recall the c.o.o.p camp, my grandparents lived near the bottom of Canada Hill at 125 High Street opposite the school(still there). The camp is long past demolished. Also re Ettrick Bay, can recall the mini railway brought back just after the war, but failed to attract sufficient revenue and so folded....sadly.
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| | Julie McCluskey from West Lothian. Posted 12 Aug 2004.
I too have fond memories of the Co-op camp at the top of Canada Hill, the trip to Rothesay was an adventure aboard the Waverly. I remember the smell of the dining hall at the camp,welcoming and homely,not to mention posh (well, it was to me!). I also remember the rain, but what would a holiday in Rothsay be without the rain? Sitting here in front of my p.c. the 1960's seem so far away, but the memories are always with me.
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| | Isobel McCabe from Glasgow City. Posted 15 Mar 2005.
I remember the co op camps we were taken there for years mum dad two brothers and myself great times. I remember they had races for the adults and the children and sing songs in the hall they used for the dancing. My dad used to give a song: danny boy was one of his favourites. He had a nice tenor voice. I so miss all these things now. Maybe old age has made me more nostalgic so what it is nice to look back and remember
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| | Robert Borland from Troon. Posted 16 Oct 2006.
I lived in Mansefield Place at the bottom of Minister's Brae. Later moved to Glebe Terrace which was half way up Minister's Brae. I went to Rothesay Public School in 1940 as an evacuee.
My Dad drove a Yates's bus to Canada Hill in the 1950's.
I worked in Johnny Hunter's blacksmith shop and helped erect a handrail on a new hut's front steps. That was in 1951!
A great family holiday based on clean comforable lodgings without frills. If I hadn't lived in Rothesay I'd probably have stayed there!!!
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| | Jim Boyce from Cumbernauld. Posted 16 Oct 2006.
The co-op camps were demolished and a caravan site was set up on the vacant land during the 80's. It's still there but they're all packed in like sardines. I holidayed over the hill at Bogany Farm in the huts. We came over to the camps to use the wee shop to buy sweets
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