*2014 that talks about Freddie Forrest, Dad's Uncle and Dad's nephew writes a piece about on of the steam engines in the family.
*2012
Your cousin, Wull's steam Engine
NB I made a copper
cowling for this engine for the top of the lum. This was my main copper
smithing practical project when i was ca 18 yrs old as an apprentice at
Falkirk Technical College. It contributed to my intermediate London
City & Guilds Certificate in Sheetmetalwork, where I was
top of my tech class from age 15-18
Plus a story re Bonnybridge Junior Secondary School that my two brothers, Billy, John and myself attended
At
age 11/12 yrs of age I attained the Scottish national exam result of
the 11plus exam, which allowed me to go to either Falkirk Technical
Secondary School or Denny High School
I Chose Denny as being closer- and cheaper and quicker than going into Falkirk
I
also had the pick of going into the 'A' (Latin & French&
commercial subjects) or the 'B' class of Technical and French. I chose
'B', I didn't fancy studying a 'dead' language as well as French as
well. 'Dopey me' I could have been a professor, as chided by my big
brother, hence his rather takedown nickname, 'Professor'
So
, as I have intimated many times, to my childhood brothers, I could
have been a brain surgeon, just didn't have the brains for it!!!!
Work that out yeseyins!!
Also link to info on Bonnybridge
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnybridge
The article about James Wilson, Timber merchant is where my Grandfather
had his sawmill when he and your grannie Ellis[Born 1911]ms Forrest],
came to Bonnybridge in ca 1916.My grandad set up a blacksmiths shop in another part of Bonnybridge and later down to the area you see in the picture
History lives.
In this edition of Bonnyseen[the Bonnybridge magazine of recent years] is a story of the Bonnybank sawmill that my Grandad/Grannie[your grannie Ellis’s Father-Wull[William] Forrest/MotherEliza Forrest[ms Bastable] owned, when i was a boy.
Many’s a happy time almost every weekend was spent at the sawmill helping to saw the timber brought in by the menfolk from places afar in Scotland. We, sometimes, spent a large portion of our 2[or was it 1] months summer holidays with the men, with the steam traction engine and the crane lorry and ordinary lorry carting timber from a all over Scotland, back to Bonnybank sawmill and yard that Grandparents owned between the Forth and Clyde canal and the Bonny river.
We, Billy, me and wee brother, Jock, ’the wain’ as Maw would state-“dinnae you older wains leave the wain behind ysi'[2 years between each of us] were indeed very fortunate as laddies tae have such an outlet for us to enjoy.
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