Once Upon A Time In The Muirton

Hello and welcome to this episode which may be familiar to many of you. Join Dunks and Barney as they take you in a journey back in time. Sharing the history of a housing scheme in the 20th Century. In January of this year we were lucky enough to be able to share this 30 minute film we made at a screening in the old Museum & Gallery. It captures a little of the life and times of folks who live...

Hello and Welcome to Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. This is another belter of an episode. Ramsay was born in his granny's house in Ainslie Place in 1969. The youngest of 3 brothers. His mum from Perth and his dad from Lebanon. The stories he has generously shared with us for this episode are a mixture of funny, graphically honest and passionate. The time we spent with Ramsay was special, fro...

Hello and thanks for tuning in to this latest episode of Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. We had the pleasure of meeting Peter and his brother Ally at the November 2023 Muirton Reunion. Peter was born in Muirton in the year 1940. One of the original Muirton bairns. His recollections of the characters fae Muirton and Perth is vividly and fondly told. His passion for Ice Hockey, originating at Dunke...

Welcome to your latest episode of Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. Dunks and I recently had the pleasure of spending time with the wonderful Ally Stirton and Fiona Green. They have been on our radar for some time and this episode is another cracker. Two streets are represented - Ainslie Place and Malvina Place. You will hear stories of large families, Chippie Vans, Knife Sharpeners, Budgies, tropi...

Welcome to our latest episode with special guest Donna Henderson / McDonald. This is our first video podcast - so you get to see and hear Donna share her memories of living in The Muirton.  You'll not hear the usual intro banter from me and Dunks as we cut straight to chatting with Donna. We hope you enjoy whether you listen or watch this fabulous episode. Enjoy. Dunks and Barney 

Welcome to your latest episode from Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. We recently had the great pleasure of spending time with Phil Erica and Andy Drysdale. They have been friends for 46 years and counting. When Phil's family moved to Muirton in the 1970's. You'll hear stories of strong Muirton women, music and it's importance growing up. Football, 3 channel television, gramophone record players an...

Welcome to our wrap up of the year. 2023 has had plenty of great memories and a few sad moments with the loss of some auld Muirton Bairns. We think we have captured the essence of the last 12 months in this final episode of 2023. Thank-you to everyone who supports our podcast by taking part, listening and sharing the stories of Once Upon A Time In The Muirton. Your stories are important, deserving...

Our latest guest is the wonderful John McCole. The beginning of this episode is a 4 minute recording of a phone call with John recalling a memory with his mum before you get to the main episode which is another belter. John has lived in many places around the world including America, Germany and now Australia is home. However his formative years are rooted in The Muirton from a new born in 1963 un...

Welcome to episode 26. We had the pleasure of being with long time friends Steve McKechnie, Tony Quinn and Mark 'Sykes' Sandeman. They have known each other since the 1960's and had plenty of anecdotes to share. Stories of Corporal punishment, dirty protests and sex education. And that is just in the first 30 minutes 😁 Through the memories shared, the importance family and friendship regularly co...

In this third part of our school trilogy the kids are now in Riverside Primary. Dunks and me had the pleasure of hearing the kids share there first thoughts of the new school and talk about their first few days experiences at Riverside Primary. Thanks again go to Mrs Gibb for facilitating this session and making it all possible. Naturally, a huge thanks go to the kids that took part: Holly, Sasha,...

Welcome to this, second part of our school trilogy. This time we have gone outside of our usual stomping ground and find ourselves in North Muirton, a scheme built in the late 1960's early 1970's and the Primary school opened in 1977. 46 years later the decison was made to close North Muirton and Balhouise Primary, bringing pupils from both schools together in a new modern primary called R...

Listen to voices of of the kids as they share a few thoughts just a few days after their experience of the newest Primary School in Perth Riverside Primary School, North Muirton.

Hello folks, here's a little audio trailer for upcoming episode... with Tony Quinn Steve McKechnie and Mark Sandeman - it was a great catch-up a few weeks back and the full episode will be with you very soon... Cheers, Dunks and Barney

The time has come - after 115 years Northern District / Balhousie Primary School has closed it's doors for the last time as a school. We have had the pleasure and the privilege of having regular access to the school over the last 18 months or so. Originally named due to it's location on the Northern edge of Perth. 30 years later families began to move into a new local authority housing sch...

This is a live recording straight from the gym hall of Northern District / Balhousie Primary school on the morning of Saturday 25th of February.  The school has served the community since 1908 closes this year and the Open Morning was an opportunity for auld pupils to visit and walk the corridors one last time. The school put on an amazing display with photographs and artifacts available for...

This is a lovely poem that LIz Lamond has written remembering her times at Northern Primary School. The school had an Open Morning on the 25th of February which Dunks recites live. The school, renamed Balhousie Primary, is due to close this year and a fuller podcast from the Open Morning is in the edit room being readied for your listening pleasure 😁👍 Happy Listening, Enjoy. Dunks and Barney&nbs...

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 fin...

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...

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 frie...

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 occupi...

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 Muirto...

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...

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. We hear so much from Mandy, Jimmy and Jackie. Stories about the shops, growing up as kids in Muirton, memories of Christmas's long past, and guising. We hear a bit abou...

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....