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By Yon Bonnie Banks By Yon Bonnie Braes: A Tayside Childhood

Vera Milne

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Vera Milne
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A review (©, 2004) by the author Vera Milne
Original Copyright by Vera Milne. Used by permission of the author. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without permission of the author.

By Yon Bonnie Banks By Yon Bonnie Braes: A Tayside Childhood is an amusing, nostalgic yet moving account of everyday living in a small Scottish town on the bonnie banks and braes of the River Tay just after the second world war, mostly between 1946-1956, as remembered by the author.

People from all parts of Scotland will be able to identify with many of the events and happenings. The book in most parts is written in the vernacular and in the way in which things were spoken.

The book starts with an armchair tour of Tayport during the period of about 1946 -1956. She starts this off going over the places that were in existence at that time recording this in an anecdotal form through her life as a bairn born, bred and educated in Tayport. It also reflects on happenings in other Tayside Towns and Cities - Broughty Ferry, Wormit, Newport, and Dundee. The idea was to remind people of the life that we had then.

Inevitably, there are some sad memories. However, the following chapters are about the customs etc., that were taking place not only in Tayport but in the Tayside area of Scotland. Her memories will be shared by most of the local people. As the author said: "Let's preserve our history and chuckle."

The contents are:

• A Post War Childhood spent primarily on the banks and braes of the river Tay
• Armchair tour of tayport (with more than a passing reference to Dundee, broughty ferry, wormit and Newport)
• A day at the Berries
• Coal Fires and Clootie Dumplings
• The Belt
• Familiar Sounds, Sayings and Ditties
• Entertainment
• Steam Trains and the Tay Bridge
• Here Come the Tattie Pickers!
• Wedding Scrambles
• 3d Worth of Aulders
• The Pictures or the Flicks
• Please Could You Help the Guisers?
• Dookin for Apples
• Do You Remember?
• Short Poem
• Old Picture Gallery

Lorraine Kelly highly recommended this book in her recent column in the Sunday Post (5th December 2003 ) --

" 'Vera's Golden Memories' --

"A lovely book which has just beem published will appeal to most of who look back on our childhood as a golden time.

"By Yon Bonnie Banks By Yon Bonnie Braes -A Tayside Childhood is by Vera Milne from Tayport.

"It is utterly charming and very funny and will strike a chord with people from all over Scotland, but especially around Tayport, Dundee and Broughty Ferry.

"Those who grew up in the post World War 2 era will find it especially poignant.

"Vera has also done a remarkable service by documenting the kind of games we used to play,the sweeties we used to sook and the words we used, before they are lost altogether.

"It is a perfect Christmas present."

Paperback 150 pages (November 21, 2003)
ISBN: 095463750X
Price: £8.50 or US $15.40 + £3.00 or US $5.45 shipping
Order either at Vera Milne or at http://www.amazon.co.uk/.

[Capital Scot advisory: The author assures that this novel is safe for kids of all ages, and meets the UK safe surfing standard for all ages.]

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