Once Upon A Time In The Muirton
by Once Upon A Time In The Muirton
Everybody has a story to tell. Once Upon A Time In The Muirton is a collection of memories gathered and told by the people of Muirton in their own voice and in their own style. These podcasts capture the oral history, spoken by the people who lived, worked, played, laughed and cried in a 20th century housing scheme.Inevitably, memories being what they are, mean occasional mistakes on names, dates and locations will be made. But every story told is done with the best intentions
Episodes
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Episode 2 - Contursi Terme - A one way street to Perth for Pena
In this episode you will hear the voice from one of Muirton's most well kent people over the last 50 years - Pena Rylance. In 1962, speaking only Italian, Pena left her home village of Contursi Terme, in the province of Salerno, south-western Italy. Arriving in the middle of a snowy Scottish...
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Episode 32: Arthur and George Jenkins
Welcome to this latest episode of Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. I was lucky enough to meet Arthur and George Jenkins at the Northern Primary School exhibition a couple of months ago. The exhibition included display of the time capsule recovered from the demolition of the school after it was...
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Once Upon A Time In The Muirton_Movie
Hello and welcome to this episode which may be familiar to many of you. Join Dunks and Barney as they take you in a journey back in time. Sharing the history of a housing scheme in the 20th Century. In January of this year we were lucky enough to be able to share this 30 minute film we made at a...
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Episode 31: Ramsay Chatila
Hello and Welcome to Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. This is another belter of an episode. Ramsay was born in his granny's house in Ainslie Place in 1969. The youngest of 3 brothers. His mum from Perth and his dad from Lebanon. The stories he has generously shared with us for this episode are a...
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Episode 30: Peter Mclaren, one of the original Muirton bairns
Hello and thanks for tuning in to this latest episode of Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. We had the pleasure of meeting Peter and his brother Ally at the November 2023 Muirton Reunion. Peter was born in Muirton in the year 1940. One of the original Muirton bairns. His recollections of the...
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Episode 29: Ally Stirton and Fiona Green
Welcome to your latest episode of Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. Dunks and I recently had the pleasure of spending time with the wonderful Ally Stirton and Fiona Green. They have been on our radar for some time and this episode is another cracker. Two streets are represented - Ainslie Place and...
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Episode 12 - Donna Henderson/McDonald - The Provie woman
Welcome to our latest episode with special guest Donna Henderson / McDonald. This is our first video podcast - so you get to see and hear Donna share her memories of living in The Muirton. You'll not hear the usual intro banter from me and Dunks as we cut straight to chatting with Donna. We hope...
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Episode 28 - Phil Earaker & Andy Drysdale
Welcome to your latest episode from Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. We recently had the great pleasure of spending time with Phil Erica and Andy Drysdale. They have been friends for 46 years and counting. When Phil's family moved to Muirton in the 1970's. You'll hear stories of strong Muirton...
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End of Year Wrap 2023
Welcome to our wrap up of the year. 2023 has had plenty of great memories and a few sad moments with the loss of some auld Muirton Bairns. We think we have captured the essence of the last 12 months in this final episode of 2023. Thank-you to everyone who supports our podcast by taking part,...
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Episode 27: John McCole - Lisbon Lions, shoe laces, 3 wheel bikes, tattie picking and other stories
Our latest guest is the wonderful John McCole. The beginning of this episode is a 4 minute recording of a phone call with John recalling a memory with his mum before you get to the main episode which is another belter. John has lived in many places around the world including America, Germany and...
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Episode 26: Friends: From boys to men! Stories of Friendship, Food and Family!
Welcome to episode 26. We had the pleasure of being with long time friends Steve McKechnie, Tony Quinn and Mark 'Sykes' Sandeman. They have known each other since the 1960's and had plenty of anecdotes to share. Stories of Corporal punishment, dirty protests and sex education. And that is just in...
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Episode 25 - School Trilogy Part 3: Riverside Primary when two schools become one
In this third part of our school trilogy the kids are now in Riverside Primary. Dunks and me had the pleasure of hearing the kids share there first thoughts of the new school and talk about their first few days experiences at Riverside Primary. Thanks again go to Mrs Gibb for facilitating this...
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Episode 24: School Trilogy Part 2: North Muirton Primary School kids sharing memories
Welcome to this, second part of our school trilogy. This time we have gone outside of our usual stomping ground and find ourselves in North Muirton, a scheme built in the late 1960's early 1970's and the Primary school opened in 1977. 46 years later the decison was made to close North Muirton and...
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School Trilogy Part 3: Riverside Primary School Trailer
Listen to voices of of the kids as they share a few thoughts just a few days after their experience of the newest Primary School in Perth Riverside Primary School, North Muirton.
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Trailer...
Hello folks, here's a little audio trailer for upcoming episode... with Tony Quinn Steve McKechnie and Mark Sandeman - it was a great catch-up a few weeks back and the full episode will be with you very soon... Cheers, Dunks and Barney
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Episode 23 - School Trilogy Part 1: Balhousie Primary School kids sharing final memories - Northern / Balhousie Primary 1908 - 2023
The time has come - after 115 years Northern District / Balhousie Primary School has closed it's doors for the last time as a school. We have had the pleasure and the privilege of having regular access to the school over the last 18 months or so. Originally named due to it's location on the...
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Episode 22 - TUPPENCE, KARMA & OTHER STORIES FROM THE NORTHERN DISTRICT / BALHOUSIE PRIMARY OPEN MORNING
This is a live recording straight from the gym hall of Northern District / Balhousie Primary school on the morning of Saturday 25th of February. The school has served the community since 1908 closes this year and the Open Morning was an opportunity for auld pupils to visit and walk the corridors...
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Bonus - Northern District Poem by Liz Lamond
This is a lovely poem that LIz Lamond has written remembering her times at Northern Primary School. The school had an Open Morning on the 25th of February which Dunks recites live. The school, renamed Balhousie Primary, is due to close this year and a fuller podcast from the Open Morning is in…
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Episode 20 - End of Year Thanks...with a few tequilas and listening stats...
Welcome to the last episode of 2022. This is Dunks and Barney signing off with our final episode. We hope you enjoy as we have a bit of banter - washed down with tequila and beer :-) This year has been amazing for Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. Listening numbers continue to grow, the work with...
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Episode 19 - Albert Armour - Born at the birth of The Muirton
Thank-you for choosing this latest podcast. You may recognise the surname Armour. Albert is the older brother of Kathleen and younger brother of Leta from episode 17. It is important to note that this is our very first international podcast - Albert in Western Australia and Kathleen was on the...
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Episode 18 - The Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the bloody truth
A very warm welcome to our latest podcast that shares life from a housing scheme in Muirton. Like all of our episodes this is a very special listen. Possibly the most personal yet, as it features one of your hosts. Dunks and his mum Marlene. ***WARNING*** This episode does have reference to...
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Episode 17 - Meet The Armours - 95B Dunkeld Road 1938 - 1978
Hello and thank-you for joining our latest podcast. This time we had the pleasure of spending time with sisters Kathleen and Leta Armour. Kathleen lives in Australia now and was in Perth visiting her older sisters Leta, 92 and Betty who is 100. Their growing family moved from 3 Hawarden Terrace…
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Episode 16 - 52 years of friendship and counting - Omar Dafalla and John McLeish
Hello everyone, sorry it’s taken a wee bit longer than planned to get this latest podcast out for your listening pleasure. We’re sure you’ll agree after a listen it’s worth the wait. 😊 In this episode you get to hear from 2 long-standing friends of 52 YEARS and counting, Omar Dafalla and John...
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Episode 14 - A 12 Month Review - Thank-you From Dunks & Barney ✊👍
When we first started Once Upon A Time In The Muirton we had no idea what to expect. 12 months on we have been blown away by everyone's support and generous feedback - whether you have invited us into your homes to hear and record your stories or you have been one of our many listeners giving us...
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Episode 13 - The Baker's Daughter
In our latest episode we spent time with Mandy Winton, her husband Jimmy Malloch and Jackie Hutchison nee Wooderson. Mandy's dad, Gerry, had the bakery in the row of Dunkeld Road shops during the 60's and they lived above the shop. We hear so much from Mandy, Jimmy and Jackie. Stories about the...
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Bonus Track - Every story starts somewhere.....
In this short video you'll get to hear how we got together and started Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. https://anchor.fm/dunks-barney/episodes/Pilot-Episode---Once-Upon-A-Time-In-The-Muirton-e11l43e https://www.facebook.com/groups/275795401238996/ Twitter: @TheMuirton1
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Episode 11 - Clint Eastwood, The Rio Grand, 60 year old stools and salmon aplenty
10-4 for a copy, Cmon! Sitting here in the Old Rio Grand. We have a treat for you listeners. We have had the pleasure of spending time with Maureen Hill nee McManamon and some of her wonderful family. Maureen's mum and dad met after they traveled to Scotland in 1939. They lived in Saula and...
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Episode 10 - Liz, Gooey & Jimmy - friends for over 50 years and it seems just like yesterday.
Welcome to Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. Recently we had the pleasure of sitting with 3 Auld Muirton Bairns - Lizzie Lamond, Gooey Mcgrath and Jimmy Duncan (Dunk's big brother). Before we knew it 4 hours had passed and it was time to go. We have edited this episode to a little more than 2…
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Episode 8 - Farewell 2021 - A Banksy Poem, Some Beer, Wine and Toast
This is our last, very short, episode of 2021. It starts with a Christmas poem by Gordon Banks and then goes downhill from there :-) We had great plans for a big finale to the year but beer led to wine led to toast. We have had an absolute ball being given the privilege spending time with so many...
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Bonus Track - Robin's Hip's Away
In the intro to the original episode https://anchor.fm/barnaby-black/episodes/Mr-Softee-a-sneak-rocket-attack-and-the-Shah-of-Persia-e171a82 Dunks and me talked about sharing what Robin had told us following his and Roy Benson's heroics stopping a robbery at knife point. The story didn't end with...
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Episode 7 - 1908 - 2023 Northern District - Oxtail Soup, The Nit Nurse and Shooting Pencils
Dear Listener, join us on our latest episode as we take a step back into our school days. The Northern District was one of the main primary schools that educated the children of Muirton (at least tried to), St Johns, St Ninians and Central District being some of the others. Opened in 1908, 1000's...
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Episode 6 - From The Muirton to Friarton, and Back Home! Where the Heart is!
An Evening with Aileen Myles! Most of us are lucky enough to have a loving family around us, growing up through our formative years that shape us into the adults we are. This episode is special, as it involves this very thing, a loving family, who asked Barney and I if we would come and sit with...
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Episode 5 - Mr Softee a sneak rocket attack and the Shah of Persia
Welcome to our latest episode. You are in for a real tasty treat down memory lane - Robin Rennie aka Mr Softee is taking us on a journey in his ice cream van around the streets of The Muirton. Robin started with Renato's ice cream van in 1964 up until he got his own Mr Softee van in the early...
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Episode 2 - Special Edit (No Music) - Contursi Terme - A one way street to Perth for Pena
In this episode you will hear the voice from one of Muirton's most well kent people over the last 50 years - Pena Rylance. In 1962, speaking only Italian, Pena left her home village of Contursi Terme, in the province of Salerno, south-western Italy. Arriving in the middle of a snowy Scottish...
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Episode 1 - Jumpers For Goalposts
As we are in the middle of the Euros football tournament, Barney and I thought we should do a short episode on football in the Muirton. We made reference in the first episode that football was a big part of our lives growing up playing in the streets and back greens of Muirton. I invited two old...
About this show
Everybody has a story to tell. Once Upon A Time In The Muirton is a collection of memories gathered and told by the people of Muirton in their own voice and in their own style. These podcasts capture the oral history, spoken by the people who lived, worked, played, laughed and cried in a 20th century housing scheme.Inevitably, memories being what they are, mean occasional mistakes on names, dates and locations will be made. But every story told is done with the best intentions
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