38 thoughts on “WHERE’S BONGO?”

  2. No 6 belongs to the post- Who’s Bongo with, not Where’s Bongo as otherwise Andi looks younger than I thought 🙂

    Is Bongo in Kirkintilloch? Peel Park at one point?

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    1. LOL. I’m pretty sure that Bongo’s not with Andi in that photograph. I think that, handsome fellow that he is, he found himself a girlfriend.

      I don’t know the answer… Bongo is rather secretive.

      I’m sure Andi will tell us in the fullness of time.

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          1. Another interesting detail that surprises people is the fact that there was a shipyard in the ostensibly land-locked burgh, where many of the Clyde Puffers were built, including The Vital Spark.🙂

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  4. Yes, I go along with PP and tfhbbard. For me the big clue was the fountain and the bandstand, one the gift from and the other to commemorate Baillie Hudson.

    Handsome red sandstone, and is that a the stone mason’s mark on the slab that Bongo is sitting on image No1?

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  5. Good evening, Tris, PP, tfhubbard, Willie John, Alan Gordon, Auld Touns, (have I missed anybody?). Well done for recognising Kirkintilloch! As to No6, the lady insisted on being photographed with Bongo who readily agreed to a dual portrait. The lady won’t mind me saying that she is Seana Doherty, a local Kirky artist and partner in a wee arts & crafts shop – CreatED – in Kirkintilloch, which has a great stock of all sorts of arts & craft work. I stress that no money has changed hands for my recommendation and no personal relationships are involved. Yes, PP, Bongo was in Peel Park – well done. Willie John, I did think of chiselling off the fountain’s inscription but thought that was maybe just too extreme. Auld Toons, I knew you’d cracked it when I saw you’re comment on “Ca canny, but ca awa” Alan Gordon, that is indeed a mason’s mark in No1. The red sandstone building is Holy Family & St. Ninian RC church, opened 1893 and designed by Peter Paul Pugin of the renowned architectural firm Pugin & Pugin, London.

    A final teaser – nae Googlin’ – why has the origins of Kirkintilloch’s name got nothing to do with a Kirk?

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        1. Yup, the Romans put one of their forts on the Antoine Wall at the north end of a ridge looking over the floodplain of the Kelvin and its earthworks we were still clear in the early Middle Ages when the Cumbrian-speaking Strathclyde Britons named the place. A couple of centuries later the Red Comyns used the earthworks to make building their castle easier, and the burgh followed on to make them some money.

          Ain’t feudalism and capitalism grand, eh?😗🫤

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          1. Auld Touns, you seem to know everything about auld touns everywhere. I think it’s time Bongo made a few trips to the likes of Irvine, Cumbernauld, Livingston, East Kilbride & Glenrothes. Or is there an alter ego out there – New Touns?😃🦍

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            1. Dunno, what happened to that comment, Andi. It went into moderation…

              WordPress never ceases to amaze.

              So Auld Touns, how are you on New Touns?

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              1. I will admit to passing through a few (mutter, moan) on the way to more interesting places.

                I still have a few auld touns I’ve not got to yet, too! I just remember places quite well -it seems to be the way my brain works 🤔

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              1. Yes, it does that.

                I keep on trying to remember (and failing dismally) to put the name of the person to whom I’m replying, on the post.

                Danny always remembers to do that. (Smarty pants that he is!)

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    2. Thanks for the explanation and Munguin is happy to give Seana a wee bit of publicity, given that she’s clearly a friend and admirer of his pal Bongo.

      Without Googling (and Munguin wouldn’t allow it) I have no idea about the origins of Kirkintilloch’ name, but I did assume that it was something to do with the kirk.

      I see, however, our touns expert has it…

      Thanks for that…

      And once again out thanks to Bongo and his factotum for sending in the west coast photos.

      🙂

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      1. I’m sure that the bandstand has been the scene of many a grand open-air concert. Kirkintilloch used to have (and still has, hopefully?) a fine brass band. Championship Section, I think.

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  7. I may be auld, but I’m not bigoted. New Towns (the town-planners’ delight) will become auld touns eventually! Plus, Mrs Auld Touns grew up in one of the ones you listed…😗😁

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    1. Do you think these New Touns will ever get to be old, without having to be entirely rebuilt. Great swathes of Dundee have been built and knocked down in the last 50 years, and parts of it which were built in the 1800s, or before, are still standing.

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      1. That’s happening in all the New Towns, Tris. It’s natural selection in architecture!

        More seriously, it is a sign that they are maturing as places, and old places do tend to have buildings from different periods. It’s just the age-gap between the buildings in the new places is shorter than in older places.

        Glenrothes will never have the time-depth of Dundee, but most of the New Towns do have an old village or burgh at their heart.

        Time will tell!

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        1. Indeed, Auld Touns.

          I just look at the houses that they are building and think that they probably won’t be here in 100 years.

          I remember about 20 years ago my brother bought a house. It wasn’t cheap. Back then maybe £350,000.

          I helped him move in. It was fine, I suppose. 4 bedrooms, two with ensuite, kitchen/family room, dining room (with enough space for a small table), salon with enough space for a three piece suite and a coffee table.

          So, in my opinion, overpriced.

          But the worst thing was that the walls were paper thin and you could hear everything through them.

          I wonder if it will still be standing in 100 years.

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          1. We moved to Stirling when I was four, in 1964, and my parents bought a brand new house on a new estate. It’s still there, so 60 years…just another 40 to go lol

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  9. Tris have you read about the Tory MP Nick Fletcher who is suggesting voters in Ashfield re-elect Lee Anderson aka 30p Lee as their MP in the next GE as a Reform UK party candidate….and where having done this Sunak has rejected a call to remove the whip from him as in Tory MP Nick Fletcher…..OMG…..talk about mental…..

    Why would he, Fletcher, do this ?….does he think it will help him sustain his seat in his own constituency, Don Valley, as in a Red wall seat that formerly was a Labour seat , via Caroline Flint, and was then won by him, Fletcher, a Tory in 2019….and this constituency voted 69% for Brexit…..perhaps he feels threatened by Reform UK party in his own constituency and is trying some mental psychology in supporting Reform UK party in another constituency to hold onto his own seat as a Tory…..as in his sympathies lie with Reform UK Party and their policies….and if he lost the Tory whip would he also then defect to Reform party….hence Sunak’s reluctance to remove the whip.

    Some of these Red Wall Tories who won their seats in 2019 seem to be the most questionable characters……I’m old enough to remember when there was a time if you gave support to another political party other than your own as an MP…you would be OUT of your existing party….now……well…..desperate times calls for desperate…..lack of action…..LOL

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    1. I think it shows how weak Sunak is.

      I’m sure it would have been a suspension in the past.

      Don’t vote Tory, says the Tory and the Tory leader says “Britain is the second greatest country in the world”.

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