Photograph Andrew Carothers
A popular picnic was to the Braid
Hills; there was a very shallow open cave where we would eat our picnic if the
weather turned sour giving us some shelter. It served as a good base from which
to play. On one occasion a group of us were setting out for a picnic; all that my
brother Iain and I had was a bottle of water each which I'd stored in my small
brown haversack. All the others had sandwiches and perhaps a few sweets.
Hilda Hanlon
I
don't know how but Hilda Hanlon (6/7 Oxgangs Avenue) somehow must have noticed
this; she leaned out her window and threw down a tanner - threepence each and
told us to get something at Jimmy's Green Van which was parked outside the
stair.
I bought us two packets of Golden Wonder crisps. Or was it Smith’s.
