Once Upon A Time In The Muirton

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 the Museum has been a great success, a brilliant creative writing workshop and involvement with the final months of Balhousie / Northern Primary school just some of the highlights.

Thank-you to every single one of you for being a part of Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. We hope Christmas has been amazing and that 2023 brings you all health and happiness!

2022 was a big year for our wee podcast and we aim to make 2023 even bigger. 

Slàinte Mhath

Dunks and Barney

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 Eastern side while we recorded from the Fair City of Perth.

The family moved to 95B Dunkeld Road in 1938 - Albert was only 4 months old, not much older than the new Muirton Housing scheme. Albert has outlived the bricks and mortar of the place he fondly called home and in this episode he shares his memories as a bairn during WWII, his experiences of The Perth Panthers Ice Hockey and Saint Johnstone's highs and lows at Muirton Park. Both of which were only yards from his family home. 

You'll hear stories of Alberts first job as delivery boy for a local butchers, how his brother taught him to dive at the local baths. You'll also get to hear about The Original 'hand of god' goal and much, much more.

These stories are shared by Albert and Kathleen with warmth, fondness and as always with our guests, plenty of humour. 

It has been an absolute pleasure to spend time with 3 members of one of the original Muirton families and we hope you enjoy this episode as much as we have had recording it. 

Happy Listening. Enjoy.

Dunks and Barney

Below are a few links of reference from Albert's experiences. 

https://www.britishicehockeyhalloffame.com/index.php/players/jimmy-spence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muirton_Park

Twitter - @TheMuirton1

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/275795401238996/ 

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 domestic violence, substance abuse and other sensitive topics.

At the start of this episode you'll hear friend of the podcast John McLiesh read a poem he has written after we had Creative Writing workshop with renowned author Natalie Jayne Clark  https://twitter.com/nataliejayclark - poetry amd prose are really important to helping tell the story of life in Muirton.

Our intro lasts about 20 minutes before you get to hear our main guest. Marlene Duncan.

Marlene was born in 1937 and moved to Ainslie Gardens in Muirton in 1962/3.

Marlene has had a rich tapestry of a life. Moving to Muirton from a hostel with few material belonings and a bagful of tenacity and independence.

This episode covers the life of a single mum and you'll hear about Marlene's tenaciousness and strength not to be defeated or accept what the society of the time deemed to be acceptable.  Marlene is a lady of humour, straight talking and has the temperment of a lioness where her family is concerned. 

You will love the laughs and honesty Marlene shares as her and son Dunks chat about life in a scheme called Muirton. 

Happy listening and Enjoy

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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 in Perth to 95B Dunkeld Road in 1938. Which is the very beginning of the homes in Muirton being occupied. Not only that their grandfather James Macgregor was the Clerk of Works for Muirton and other building projects in and around Perth.

Leta was 8 when they moved to Dunkeld road with 3 brothers and 2 other sisters. Kathleen is the youngest of the family and was born a few years later  in 1944 and lived there until she got married.

Kathleen and Leta will take you on a journey from the early days of Muirton up to the 1970's. 

We also had the privilege to film Kathleen and Leta for the documentary we are putting together and David took part in the conversation in the first part of this episode. 

This is an important episode as it takes us right back to the beginning of Muirton and we believe you'll enjoy the stories Kathleen and Leta share.

Happy Listening, Enjoy.

Dunks, Barney & David

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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 McLeish. They are both lovely storytellers. We did a bit of filming and podcasting with these Auld Muirton Bairns which is why the sound fluctuates a couple of times. But it takes nothing away from the quality of Omar and Johns retelling of their time growing up in Muirton.

You’ll hear about Racism, Scone Aerodrome, Cross 70 bike,   Muirton Park, Andy Robbins, Hercules The Bear, Kendo Nagasaki, Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Cappy Oswald, Garden Olympics,dead man’s fall ,polio jags, lumps of sugar, fray bentos pies and much, much more.

Happy Listening, Enjoy.

Dunks and Barney 

Welcome to this latest episode with our special guests, brother and sister John and Gail (Mclean) Ferguson.

Dunks and Fergie are great friends and share many, many memories from being young boys and continue creating new memories today.

Fergie and Gails family have a long history in Muirton - with their granny living there from the 1940's. 

This episode starts of with John and Gail talking about the encyclopedia's their dad bought and how they were a feature as they were growing up and for future family generations.

You'll hear about how the Ferguson's moved from Birnam to Perth to live in Malvina Place. Stories of school days. growing up in The Muirton and as kids just wandering around creating their own entertainment until the lights come on.

Their mum and dad had a clear influence on them and there is a bit of a theme that runs through this episode of the importance of family life living in The Muirton.

Happy Listening. Enjoy.

Dunks and 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 encouragement to keep going we thank you all. Thank-you, thank-you, Thank-you.

This episode started out as an Intro for our latest guests, brother and sister, John and Gail Ferguson. But in our usual free-flowing style it's turned into something a little different.

Have a listen while we talk about our memories of the last 12 months with a little snippet from each of those episodes thrown in as little extra. 

The episode which follows this is with John and Gail, which was another brilliant night spending time hearing and sharing stories of The Muirton.

Happy Listening, Enjoy.

Dunks & Barney

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.

This is another episode where it was an absolute pleasure to sit and listen to folk who lived in Muirton, vividly recalling their time in The Muirton.  

We're sure you will enjoy this episode as much as we have putting it together.

Happy listening. 

Enjoy.

Dunks & Barney 

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

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 Blainaskill, County Mayo, not knowing each other, even though they were in villages just a few miles apart. They soon met and found their way to Perth. 

As a 10 year old Maureen and her family moved to Ainslie Place in 1953 from The Friarton. Maureen later married and moved to her own home in Ainslie Gardens, where she brought up Stevie and Graham spending 30 years in The Muirton.

From the very start laughter fills this podcast and we're sure you'll smile and laugh as you listen to these stories.

Happy Listening, Enjoy.

Dunks and Barney