What was the first bookies in Ardrossan?

by **wellparkno9** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:08 pm

I can remember a couple of bookies shops about that area,MacLaughlan and Ferguson???? comes to mind.

by **scottyd** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:15 pm

In Saltcoats I remember two.
One was at the end of Canal Street and the other up above the High ?Road off Dalry Road.
Mu older brothr took me there,
I also think my pal from school, Jim Davidson's Dad was a bollies runner.

by **morag** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:31 pm

Not Ardrossan bookies again but there was someone up at the Hayocks shops, my dad would occasionally put a bet on the grand national, our neighbour Josey, would take it up. The only other bookies I knew were the Nellany's in Saltcoats..ex boyfriend was a runner for them.

by **Hughie** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:40 am

scottyd wrote:In Saltcoats I remember two. One was at the end of Canal Street and the other up above the High ?Road off Dalry Road.

Scotty. The one in Canal Street was a billard hall when I was growing up. It became Kelly's betting shop when I was a teenager - last time I passed it was a car repair shop, that is if we're talking about the same place. I got concussed outside there when I was a wee boy, I walked into a lamp post while walking alongside the Pipe Band. :roll:

by **sweet caroline** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:50 am

Did Reid not have a bookies in Ardrossan at one time ,then he moved to Stevenston.Brother ? of Nora Reid.

Sweet Caroline

by **Penny Tray** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:21 pm

Meekan,

When you walked down Kilmahew Street towards the harbour and then turned left into Princes Place there was a wee bookie's shop immediately on the right hand side of the street. I can't remember who owned it.

Sweet Caroline,

I think Robert Reid who lived in Rowanside Terrace, Ardrossan, had a bookie's shop, maybe in Princes Street, just along towards the railway level crossing from the junction with Hill Street. His mother also had a shop in the same area.

by **down south** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:09 pm

There was a branch of Mitchell of Saltcoats on one of the corners of Princes Place ( this side ) and Glasgow Street, which I would guess appeared quite early on in the sixties ; I noticed it mainly because it was a little bit of Saltcoats in Ardrossan, as it were....!

But I would guess from what you're saying, PT, that you don't mean this shop, but yet another one not quite as far on as the corner.

Susan

by **Penny Tray** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:46 pm

Susan,

The Mitchell's shop you refer to occupied the former 'Deep Sea' fish and chip shop and probably forced the closure of the premises I'm referring to.

by **oilers** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:26 pm

The bookies in Princes Place was owned by Jimmy Feguson, My dad used to work there part-time.

Robert Reids mother used to own the little sweetie shop across from the Lyric and really done well with the bingo crowd.

Robert now lives just outside of Blackpool in St. Annes

by **Penny Tray** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:17 pm

Oilers,

Firstly, thanks for that information on the bookies in Princes Place. I was unaware of the name Ferguson.

Secondly, I know what you mean when you say Robert Reid's mum had a sweetie shop "across" from the Lyric but technically it was along from the Lyric towards the level crossing. In other words it was on the same side of Princes Street as the Lyric but you had to cross the breadth of Hill Street from the Lyric to reach it.

Thirdly, if you're in touch with Robert and haven't done so already you might want to send him the photos of the Rowanside Terrace 'Coronation Street Party' from this site. He features in two of them, including the one below, and I think Mrs Reid might also be in one.

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Fourthly, am I correct in thinking Mrs Reid walked with a distinct limp?

by **oilers** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:24 am

PT.... Robert was in the threetowns couple of months ago on a visit. I had been trying for a number of years to try and locate him.I was his best man at his wedding. He has a connection with a couple of pubs in Stevenston notably the Cross Keys and another one. I believe his 2 daughters run the pubs.
My wife was in the Saltcot for lunch and Robert walked in and he gave her his e-mail address and I have since sent him a message but have got no reply.
If my memory is right you are correct about his mother having a limp.........George

by **Mitchy** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:06 pm

George Ardrossan wrote:Mitchy, Penny Tray

The photo below was taken on 15 August 2002 when the bookie's shop was called CD Racing.

On 27 April 2007, Morrisons Bookmakers took over as shown in this photo of 15 July 2007.

In summer 2008, Scotbet took over as shown in this photo taken on 25 December 2008.

George

Good photos George. Not that it matters a lot but Scotbet are Morrisons under a different name.

Mitchy

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