Work To Do

I Think i was Independent At this Time Cause I Didn't really Know what my Brothers Were Doing. I was just doing my thing as always. My Oldest Brother Brian Was A Prefect at Waid Academy and my other Brother Alex was at Waid academy also but with no job. I was the only one Making a wage and handing over my Dig money to my parents. Lol ( The Mind Boggles)

Elie House is a country house in Elie, Fife, Scotland. It is a Category A listed building.

The house, built in 1697 and incorporating an earlier structure, is south facing, constructed in stone in 3 storeys, 2 bays deep with a 5-bay frontage. Later additions were made c.1770 and in 1854–55.

History

Elie House was built for judge Sir William Anstruther, Lord Anstruther, S.C.J.

The house passed to Sir William's only son, Sir John Anstruther, 1st Baronet, of Anstruther, His son Sir John Anstruther, 2nd Baronet, of Anstruther made a major addition to Elie House and carried out a landscaping scheme in about 1771 which involved the building of a surviving summerhouse known as the Lady's Tower. He also ordered the clearance of a hamlet called Balclevie to improve the view, which, according to local legend, caused the building to be cursed by one of the uprooted victims.

The house descended in the Anstruther, later Carmichael-Anstruther, family until it was sold in 1853 to the industrialist William Baird by the financially insolvent 7th baronet. Baird carried out the 1855 modifications, reconstructing the east side of the house and adding a tower. In 1928 Baird sold it to Sir Michael Nairn, 2nd Baronet.

In the 1950s the house was sold to the Marie Reparatrice order of nuns who commissioned Peter Whiston in 1958 to build them a large chapel. In 2000, Elie was sold to a property developer who in 2012 converted the buildings into 13 apartments. The remainder of the Elie estate now belongs to the Trustees of the Elie Estate Trust under the stewardship of the Nairn family.

I Worked Here For A While Planting Trees and Estate Work  Cutting Grass etc.

At This Time i was 14 Years old Getting a Weeks Wages in my Little Brown Pay packet every friday.

You Dont See those wage packets anymore.

My Wage for the week was about  £15 Pounds 9 shillings and  2 Tuppence.

Which in todays money is equal to  £272.35 Per week

Still a good wage for me in 1969 lol

This is Earlsferry Town Hall Where I was A Member of the Earlferry Carpet Bowls Team League.

Now.

 Then.

Carpet Bowls Era.

We Played A Carpet Bowls League Around all the towns and villages That had a Town Hall. What is "Carpet Bowls you ask" well is like  A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls. But you use a Carpet instead of grass Indoors.

Carpet Bowls is a variant of lawn bowls played indoors. Originating in England, it is played particularly in the South of England,and Scotland although it is played at League and County level in East Anglia, the Midlands and the North. There are also a few players in Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada. Despite the name, carpet bowls is not just a trivial indoor game played at home.

the game itself is played in many village halls up and down the country. Around the turn of the century there were more than 1,000 clubs. In accordance with the village hall background, the bowls mat is smaller at around 30 x 6 feet, and the inventors clearly paid less emphasis upon trying to maintain all the rules of the Mother game. For instance, Carpet Bowls dispenses with the notion of a 'ditch' and various sometimes complex rules associated with it.

Bowls are delivered from an 18-inch-wide (460 mm) space at the front of the carpet and must avoid an 18-inch circular block placed in the centre of the carpet. The Jack is 2.5 inches in diameter (the same as for Indoor Bowls) and is placed on a centre line 3–6 feet from the end of the carpet.

Aficionados of Carpet Bowls are keen to point out that, because a bowl must be delivered within the 18-inch delivery area whilst not standing on the carpet, it is rare for players to attempt to "break up the head" (attempting to spoil the end by delivering a forceful bowl that knocks the bowls and jack randomly). Carpet Bowlers regard this as a point of superiority over Indoor Bowls and Short Mat Bowls, as Carpet Bowls is really a game that relies heavily on the art of quality drawing woods and less on power and fortune.

A Quick learning Curve about Carpet Bowls.

I was 14 years old and its not all for the old Folk. I was Junior champion For Singles and Doubles and Got a Huge Big Silver Cup with my name inscribed on it for a Year.



Another Song That Got my attention was This ....

To Be Continued