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29-12-2009 06:59 PM #1
FAO Hawkhill bus travellers from the 1970's on
This is how it feels
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29-12-2009 07:09 PM #2
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Slightly off the main topic, but anyone have any old pics from Capital Hibs buses?
I'd love to have a look through some of those....
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29-12-2009 07:12 PM #3
I remember Sam from the Hibs club, an absolute gentleman he was, always had a hello even if he didn't know you.
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Recall one trip to Aberdeen and we stopped at stonehaven, brechin, forfar on the way back. Bus bounced home back down the M90!!
We also ran a bus to the Scotland v Spain WC qualifier and had 92 people on it. All good fun mostly but it ended in tears when someone lobbed a headrest out the rear fire window at a passing hun car on the way back from Ibrox.
Scary stuff but good fun. No real trouble...just a few nutters but it was mostly good natured banter. Was only 17 at the time so that must have been about 1984?
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29-12-2009 08:25 PM #7
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I was affectionately known as 'National'...those bus trips were some of the best trips in my life, mental as anything...
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29-12-2009 08:35 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
My Dad knew him
My Dad was involved with Edinburgh West when it started.No Eternal Reward Shall Forgive Us Now For Wasting The Dawn
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29-12-2009 08:49 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Name is Craig. Came from Davidsons Mains which was one of many pick up points. Used to use Shades for ticket distributions. Remember great banter with Artisan Hibs at various games.
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29-12-2009 09:09 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
FFS Hibs, hurry up and win this bloody cup.
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29-12-2009 09:13 PM #11
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Getting back on the subject of Sammy Martinez and the Hawkhill bus of the 70s. Sammy still frequents the Hibs club and will be 100 years old in February next year.
i have known Sam for some 40 odd years and he and his family have been good friends to me and my son. He intends to have his birthday party with all his friends from the Hibs club in the club itself. He is hoping to have a well known youngster called Maude aged 93 as his guest of honour.
How do i know this? Sammy himself invited me to the party and i spent some time with him and reminised about the many happy memories we both have of the days when we travelled on that bus...... memories that wont be forgotten.
Sammy is a legend and a wee darling too, he is also a gentleman with a large loving family. Sadly his wife Mary passed away some years ago. Sammy has never forgotten his time with the Hawkhill travel club and I too have many memories of Sam following Hibs and Scotland !
Happy birthday when it comes Sammy and i hope your party goes well. You deserve every bit of love that will come your way from all us Hibs' supporters!
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29-12-2009 09:14 PM #12
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got you now from the tickets hint but can't recall you by name on the buses. Do you remember me from then?
Will PM you the names - see if they ring any bells.
nb. that multiple stops for a beer trip from Aberdeen, sure we were going to stop in Dundee too but the cops told us to bolt.
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29-12-2009 09:24 PM #13
Best stop was in Forfar if I remember. Whole bus on the tables singing and dancing.....with the bus driver!!!!
Brilliant.
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29-12-2009 10:01 PM #14
I'm reminded of a Sammy story
We're down in London for an England v Scotland game and when we arrive at King's Cross we're not 100% sure where to get the tube to our hotel. Sammy takes charge and approached a BR employee who sounds like he is West Indian. They chat and Sammy returns with a huge grin on his face. We ask why and he chortles as he tells us the BR guy had said it was the first time he'd ever heard a black Scotsman
Anyone who knows Sammy will surely agree that Scots is not obvious on his tongue
Happy Birthday when it comes SamThis is how it feels
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29-12-2009 10:17 PM #15
Hawkhill travel
Yeah, his face was lit up like a beacon, i laughed all day at the memory! I also have a mental picture of Sam standing sharing a bag of chips with two other BR employees outside Kings Cross and watching them slap him on the back and shake his hand almost off his arm.
The previous poster commented on Forfar, but my memory of Sam was when the bus went away and left him and his pal Wattie stranded in Montrose and they had to hitch lifts from there back to Edinburgh, often having to walk great distances between lifts. This never dampened his spirits as he was too full of them.
Sammy's son and i were in the same lecture class at university a couple of years ago. When i intorduced myself and mentioned i knew his dad, he immediately asked if it was true that the walk from Montrose actually happened as all the family were a bit dubious about it.
The poor lad was helpless with laughter when i filled him in with the real story. Yeah a real Hibee and a real family man too....
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30-12-2009 09:08 AM #16
Remember Sammy well from the Hibs club.
Good to hear Maude is still going strong Does she still make the games ?
Always remeber being at the celtic club in Glasgow and the police were stopping all the Hibs buses and charging the driver and bus convenors if the bus was overloaded. Anyway along comes the hawkhill bus which is clearly way overloaded. The copper signals the bus to pull over, doors open and there stands Maude. The copper looks up and says " it's yerself Maude, driver, on yer way". I'm not sure who had the biggest smile Maude or the very lucky driver.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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30-12-2009 09:37 AM #17
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Sammy is a legend
Local celebrity round about Wester Hailes
I'm good mates with his son Sas, worked with him for years and one of the best football players I've ever played with
There was a TV programme about Sam and his family on a few years ago..
Great guy, great family and great Hibbies :notworthy:
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30-12-2009 10:11 AM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
and funny also...
"The people of the neighbourhood, " he continues, "were encouraged to be friendly to them and the girls have interpreted this rather widely.
You can't beat a friendly lass..
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