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David, Mabel, Beryl and Mervyn Gillespie
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David, Mabel, Beryl and Mervyn Gillespie

1955 David, Mabel, Beryl and Mervyn Gillespie on a day that we went a run up to Hoy. Jimmy Swanson said to dad to "take us a run in his car" It was a great adventure because all we had back then was a motor bike. I remember he had swinging birds with stickers on the window in the back. Sadly Jimmy was lost on the Longhope Lifeboat in 1969 and they never found his body.
Picture added on 01 August 2011 at 20:38
Comments:
What a fine couple David and Mabel were and totally devoted to each other, Davie as he was known was so full of fun, they had a great life together Mabel was a very good looking lady and a capable hard worker.
Peety the dowter" is such a faull" thing!!.
L.O.L !!!
Added by Guess who !! on 02 August 2011
I kane fine who it is that left that comment aboot me, that ould school mate sitting on me left in the South Walls School.;-)
Added by Beryl Simpson on 03 August 2011
Sittan on the peedie dyke gan across the ayre, if am no mistaking.
Added by Keith Dempsey on 03 August 2011
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