growing up in beith

words pictures and places. what it was like to grow up in the small town of beith ayrshire scotland. words often paint many a picture, some words spark memories. alot of these remind me a growing up with my friends and remembering how good it was.

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Film & Animation

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• beith
• ayrshire
• scotland
• bjfc
• juniors
• witherspoon
• football

[brianreid]

what aboot jeanie mcghee's toaffee?

and rab whit aboot the wall?

[thegeneticengineer]

wee jeanie used to make awesome toffee and tablet...she used to scare the crap oot of us...depeneding on wot mood she was in...but it was worth it...i remember people chucking things..but for as long as i remember there was a tear that had been repaired on the lower corner of the screen, i heard someone did that with a bottle...

[tattooedgodlike]

I grew up in Beith,was born 1957 beside kilbirnie loch at the old Beith north station on the Kerse rd,moved to london 1976 and was drummer for UK subs punk band,I was rab fae beith,I now live in Arizona USA

[thegeneticengineer]

hi rab..theres alot of kids still into punk, the new wave here in canada...still see alot of UK Subs patches being brandished around...i know alot of them go on the net/ebay to try and get some of the real british punk stuff..you guys are still legends...

[pappachook]

Unfortunately Beith is now full of interlopers and their ned buckfast drinking kids. None of which know or care to be part of a community> Shame really

[banditbike]

 I grew up in beith in the seventies and eighties. it was a great place. moved away in the mid nineties. come back now and again to visit family. any sunday you care to pick the town is dead and the saracen front door is mobbed. my eight year old thinks every body in beith is an alkie.

[ronnieandme1]

I have strong family connections to Beith, my ancestors named Douglas were blacksmiths my grandfather born at Greenhills Beith. I visited Beith 2008 from Australia and felt that the village had seen better days but was charming in it's own way

[Parisien1965]

Moved away in the 90's as many others did before and after, could stand the negativity no longer, I return very occasionally to see family and friends and always see the same wasters ( the ones that haven't drank or drugged themselves to death ) staggering about the place.

Seems to be a lot of very bitter people around the place now.

My only surprise is the suicide rate is not higher.

[Parisien1965]

Social scene ? well if you want to go to a pub and watch a single mother of 5 spunk her giro getting pished while screaming into a Karaoke mic as her eldest ned has a square go with some other ned ( he doesn't know is actually his half brother) then be my guest.

[Parisien1965]

Plenty of teeny slaggs breeding more teeny slags to live off the state, a never ending cycle of inbred halfwit Jeremy Kyle show candidates.The only business that seems to be doing well is the one dishing out methadone every morning to the every increasing Que of smack heads.

[Parisien1965]

I grew up in Beith in the 70' and 80's and have great memories of many topics covered in this film, the Boys Brigade, Morrishill boys club etc - all great institutions that kept us busy.

Unfortunately the place is now a ned and junkie infested shytehole full of boarded up shops alkies and assorted detritus and scum that other councils have managed dump on Beith

[georgeaimer]

Very good m8.Visited town a couple o times for Scottish cup games v Linlithgow n Airdrie.

[cARCHIEc]

hi there guys,i remember a wee fkr called chinky,,thinkinging now he was a coward +a chib m,erchant like many so called hard men from those times,

take there chib away +they were nothing. ha ha the cowards

[rizlawhizz]

Hey i moved to beith 7 months ago i think its a good place to live, least everyones white and no attitude here, strangers actually talk to you, wudnt happen down south