Daly's Corner Quiz
Original & Best
13th October 2022
Quiz Number 150
A. What is the link between a recently transferred Hibs forward and Lamer Street's "Jersey Arms"?
a) Australian born Martin Boyle who was transferred for £3 million to the Saudi's Al-Faisaly football club on 21/2/22. He is the son of Graeme who was born when parents Betty and Chick moved to Australia. Chick was lost at sea (North) after "falling" from an oil rig crane. Betty, elder daughter, of Jimmy Smith and Buckie Jean, subsequently owned The Jersey. Post relegation of the Saudi team, and Martin having a view that his Australian selection may be in jeopardy, he has returned to his ancestral hame to join The Hibees.
B. Where is the oldest gravestone (excluding flat-stones) in our Parish Kirkyard?
a) A "divided" stone dated 1604 in memory of Andrew Pringle, located at Lair A215. (Please see plat and photographs below).
These stones are 2 or 3 places to the right of Janet Kennedy's triple Lair number A214 and left of Kelly’s (banker) memorial at A217. Simpson’s family ground is located on Lair A196
between the two stones but to their rear (west).
Footnote - Also lost in the mists of time (or to Boorhoose Quarry) was a "bifurcated" calvary cross-style memorial dated 1604, its two members each approx 6 ¼’ long planted within yards of one and the other. The portion nearer to the Kirk door had a cross-member near its base and the only inscription thereon was the date as above. The above two "memorials" were included in the late John McNie's Kirkyaird tours.
C. Which four closes were successive to Browns ex-Thomsons, moving up towards Seaport?
a) Jameson's, Thomson’s Court, Raeburn's and Common (running NE across three riggs).
D. Who said "Sure we must have landed on a foreign shore"?
a) One of Thomson trio, Shie, Shaw or Traiveller when coming ashore in a mist on Bayswell Beach in the early 1900s espying Sirdar Reginald Wingate’s "Nubian" servants.
E. Whose early 20th century local nickname was Kaiser?
a) Jack McKenzie, ex-Perthshire, of Lochend Gardens.
A. What was atop the lady above's mantle shelf at her Colvin Street hame?
a) A nugget of gold.
B. Which family brought the above "True Blue" Annie Johnstone, nee Gilroy, up?
a) The Robertsons i.e. Peter and Mary.
C. Who was True Blue and Brown's eldest son (of 3)?
a) Peter "Tam Pat" Robertson Johnstone second husband of Jane Gaylor (nee Fairbairn) ex-Marr.
D. When did the Golan/Gullane/Gullen family uproot themselves from North Berwick and move here?
a) During the second decade of the 19th Century.
E. Where did Shaw, Traiveller and Shie - all Thomson brothers and successive children - bide?
a) Old Castlegate.
"Shaw" = John 8/3/1860 - 11/1/1927, "Traiveller" = Thomas 10/12/1862 - 20/9/1934 and "Shie" = Andrew 17/3/1865 - 29/2/1948.
Old Castlegate delineated in red
Daly's Corner Quiz
Original & Best
13th June 2022
A. What number of coins were found on our streets paved with silver?
a) A hoard of 290 silver coins, from the period 1558 - 1603, were discovered during September 1773 when laying out a street which was subsequently and appropriately named Silver Street. [Grid reference NT679789]
B. Where was the Officer Cadet Club?
a) Also known as the Cosmo, it was located in the basement of the Beach House Hotel and one went down the steps to right of the now demolished Heatherly House and through the door on the right-hand side, at the bottom.
C. Which street was Heatherly House built on?
a) At the foot of Silver Street and the same address described "The Beach House" as well as the tenement which became "The Foresters Arms".
D. Who were the first owners of the above hostelry, formerly Belhaven Brewery-owned?
a) Elaine Mary and R Collin Knox in 1977 and they succeeded tenants J&D Taylor.
E. Whose soubriquet was Three Lums?
a) Jock Bowie, oor mid-20th Century Castle Street "Turf Accountant".
A. What is the significance of the PGA European Tour badge above?
a) It was David Robertson's who was banned for many years in 1985.
B. When did the Huntly's sailship, "The Golightly", with a crew of thirteen, go down on its way to the mussel beds at Tyne Water to get bait?
a) 12th of July 1886, off the North Pierhead.
C. Which members of the Huntly family perished in the disaster above?
a) Andrew born 20/5/1858, his wife Catherine Smith born 18/5/1859 and his brothers Alexander born 23/6/1864 and James born 21/6/1869. Their parents were David and Isabella Huntly (nee Clements). Also, the brothers’ cousin Agnes Dalgleish Huntly born 30/5/1870, her parents were Andrew Huntly and Sarah Dalrymple. Four others also drowned and four were saved.
D. Where was the town's Post Service before it was based at the Lorne Hotel?
a) Where else but Post Office Close or nearby; this Close ran down S by E, by the RNLI shop.
E. Who, born at Shore St. in 1928 and referred to as "Bert", was mentioned in despatches for gallantry in Korea and Malaya?
a) Robert Craig.