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Jimmy McGregor from Perth. Posted 12 Mar 2002.
Annual picnic was the highlight of the summer. Boarding a train at Kinloss Railway Station, fathers mothers, children, would set off for Nairn. Arriving there we formed up outside the station, the bigger boys were given banners to carry and a piper led the way through the town to the Links.
Light refreshments and then on with the sports, racing and jumping. Teatime arrived and each received a bag of buns and foodwise that was our lot. Prize money would be spent on ice cream, windmills, etc and then it was back to the station again led by the piper. Entrained, en route we were issued with Conversation Sweeties eg "Can I kiss you" "You are my sweetheart" etc followed by a singalong.
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|  | Cathleen McWilliams. Posted 14 May 2002.
I remember back during the 1940s back court concerts were organised for the Red Cross. Our mothers would make up a programme and we practised singing and dancing and we really thought we were something.
Our costumes were made from crepe paper and at the interval someone went round with a Red cross box. This was handed into one of the red cross centres and the receipt was put up in the window of the local shop.
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| | George Russell from Dundee. Posted 21 Jun 2002.
We were very fortunate in our school as one of our former pupils had obviously done well in later life and left an annuity to the school to provide a picnic once a year to pupils of Brown Street School. This picnic was a trip to Tayport in the summer months which really was a marvellous treat, we were all paraded in the street with our tin cups and marched down to the railway station singing as we went:
"Tayport once more,
is the place we adore,
when we leave Dundee,
were longing to see,
Tayport once more."
We had our picnic on the common with games organised and of course, the usual buggy with sandwiches. I expect that youngsters of today would find it difficult to understand the pleasure we got from that one day out at the beach they have that much now, but thats how it should be, children should always have things going for them.
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