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With the Sassenachs coming north again for Christmas in Stirling this year, a plan was hatched to do something a bit different between arriving at Newholme and our dinner at Hermanns.

So I booked a ghost tour for our small group (14) and what a laugh this turned out to be too. We were greeted by the ghost of Jock Rankin, the town hangman, who haunts Old Stirling Jail, by day and takes out parties of unsuspecting souls like ours at night.

We were treated to an hour an a half of tall tales mixed with history and humour. And of course traditional Scots abuse for us mere mortals. Among the gems were some of the names inherited by some of the group- the classics being, Frodo, Gollum and Quiff Boy. And what had to be the best Barbara, who was to carry Jocks cane round as we toured the kirk grave yard hearing tales of ghosts and hauntings. Some of these names will stick!

An excellent way to kick of an evening, (we were lucky with the weather it was only about -5 degrees C but it was very still and ideal for the occasion if you were dressed right. )Highly recommended, you can book private tours out of season (i.e outwith July or August where the tours are scheduled nightly) by phoning 01592872788.

These pictures came my way recently, from a colleague. They were found while clearing out a drawer or something. These are pics taken round and about the Orange operations team in Scotland in the mid ’90’s. Thought they were worth publishing as a laugh.

 This pic has the following people in during a team buiold event at Kenmore, Raymond Reid (Now Logistics and Contracts team Manager in Network Operations), Gail Sherwood, Roddy Nicoll (now on contract with Core Infrastructure Expansion), Alan Halferty , Sandra Johnstone, (Scotland Office Admin) , Gareth Hall, Field Ops North Scotland,  John Gilmour (Resource Manager North England, and Scotland), Richard Caul (Switched Network Support Manager) Kenny Archer, (Team Leader Northern Ireland.)

 Here we have Bobby Dickson top IT guru (Now in New Zealand), and Jenny ( no idea where she is now!). This pic was taken in the old Livingston Office.

 Here’s me looking infinitely younger in the days when men were men and sheep were frightened. On one of my spares jaunts back to base- looks like I am booking in a faulty BSC card.

Here’s Raymond Reid with the ATV on the back of his 4×4, Raymond often used to find himself in ditches and muddy fields, though usually while trying to keep a motorcycle on the tarmac!

 Here’s Derek Brown our Storeman. Unfotunately Derek has not been too well these last few years, but he works with the North East Field Team out of Darlington as a field Tech.

 All round top bloke- Craig Miller, foremr field ops engineer, now contracting somewhere (last known to be at Nokia) Here we see Craig in Cold weather suit, apparently standing on a peir somewhere. Notice behind him he has a fishing rod. This therefore could safely be assumed to be in working hours. Craig was obviously waiting on finishing time coming round so he could book onto OT!

More of the same suspects as before in the cafe at Kenmore, though Stan Davies former District Operations Manager is sitting far right. Stan has now semi retired, though we see him at Christmas doo’s and things.