Napoleon Wilson Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Here's the Arbroath Song, a stirring tune about the place where i live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Ha ha ha. I used to live in Arbroath, Monymusk Road. Was there from 1980-83 when at primary school (Timmergreens) then moved backed to Edinburgh. I went up a couple of summers ago to see what was happening and it was ok. Loving the song - the reference to Keptie Pond is class! Was that all frozen over recently? Bet it was. We used to go sledging there and then run onto the frozen pond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxteth O'Grady Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 No mention of Pie Bobs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Do The Dance Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 No mention of Pie Bobs 1 minute in. Whatever it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Vallance Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Here's the Arbroath Song, a stirring tune about the place where i live. Anywhere near Lamb Terrace ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxteth O'Grady Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 1 minute in. Whatever it is. A good pie shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Vallance Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 A good pie shop Yer having a laugh. Robertsons by a mile ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Anywhere near Lamb Terrace ? Is that up Wardykes way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Vallance Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Is that up Wardykes way? Cairnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Cairnie Ah, a bit off my patch when I stayed up there. Used to play cricket at Lochlands a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Vallance Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Ah, a bit off my patch when I stayed up there. Used to play cricket at Lochlands a lot. Yeah. I'm working class I'm afraid. The Cricket Club is my summer local, excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxteth O'Grady Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Yer having a laugh. Robertsons by a mile ! Where is it? I'll give it a try next time I'm up there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napoleon Wilson Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 Anywhere near Lamb Terrace ? Im down by the harbour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Better call Saul Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 The Macc family love Arbroaff ! The red lion caravan site is the dogz! FACT The seaside arcade centre is not ..... end of message Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Better call Saul Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 BTW ...Was not impressed wi smokies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beverley Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 thats brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Roller Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 brilliant song once went to arbroath to see the abbey. beautiful history and a poignant memory of the abbey. BUT !!! what the feck is up with the rest of the toon ??? the best thing to come out of arbroath is this quote : Thus our nation under their protection did indeed live in freedom and peace up to the time when that mighty prince the King of the English, Edward, the father of the one who reigns today, when our kingdom had no head and our people harboured no malice or treachery and were then unused to wars or invasions, came in the guise of a friend and ally to harass them as an enemy. The deeds of cruelty, massacre, violence, pillage, arson, imprisoning prelates, burning down monasteries, robbing and killing monks and nuns, and yet other outrages without number which he committed against our people, sparing neither age nor sex, religion nor rank, no one could describe nor fully imagine unless he had seen them with his own eyes. But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him Who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert. He, that his people and his heritage might be delivered out of the hands of our enemies, met toil and fatigue, hunger and peril, like another Macabaeus or Joshua and bore them cheerfully. Him, too, divine providence, his right of succession according to or laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our Prince and King. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound both by law and by his merits that our freedom may be still maintained, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand. Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom ? for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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