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DWNB's A-Z-B-Y Of Troon and it's Surrounds :-) B

Today I bring you a double "B". Barassie Street and Burnside Place...

When I was little, the building on the Corner was a Health Centre, or something. Mum took me there for Jabs and so see the nurses... It was old then, and in the waiting room there were wooden rocking horses..., old worn but very loved. I loved going there just for the thrill of having a shot on one of the horses.

I returned there in 1994, for my Ante-natal appointment when I was pregnant with Toolibelle. It was exactly the same. The horses were still there.

My primary School is across is behind the wrought iron and sandstone wall. When I was at School, we were told the tale of a boy who stood on the wall to shout at someone across the road, and who slipped and the pointed end of the rail went through his chin and into his mouth. The fire brigade had to cut the "spear" off, to get him in to the ambulance.... if you look just above the no parking sign, you'll see the gap in the rail.

When I was at the School, there was a bakery behind where I was standing to take this shot, I never went to it... but I yearned after other people's purchases. I didn't have money to go to the shops... and I wasn't allowed to leave the school, apart from Fridays when I was allowed to go to Templeton's Cafeteria for lunch. Flat sausage and chips.

There was also "the Co-Operative Hall". I used to go to Country Dancing classes there, and it was in that hall the Sea Cadets met. I was a bit scared of them.

Now - in it's place; the back end of the 5 shop units which were converted from the "modern" supermarket which was built, and which closed when the town outgrew it.

I wonder what will be built in Morrison's place when Troon outgrows it?