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Lanarkshire / Re: The Garvie's of Glasgow and Holytown
« on: Monday 28 November 11 06:37 GMT (UK)  »
Yes please...I would be interested to see a photo of the Garvie building. You can attach a photo by clicking the [Attach a photograph] link just below the message box.

Or if you are a Facebook user post a photo to the "Garvie Family Roots Group" at http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150403896513237&id=515253236&ref=notif&notif_t=feed_comment_reply#!/group.php?gid=2445805917

Many thanks!

Colin G Garvie
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Lanarkshire / Re: The Garvie's of Glasgow and Holytown
« on: Tuesday 15 November 11 05:27 GMT (UK)  »
@ Lodger "The Scratcher was the local cinema (we called them picture houses). No idea what the real name was but everyone knew it as "The Scratcher" because you were itching to get in - and scratching when you came out! In other words - a flea pit "

LOL! Probably not relevant but the Garvies who came to Africa were pretty much into bioscope or "scratchers" as you call them. Donald Garvie (1873-1912) is credited with introducing "bioscope" to Nairobi in Kenya. By all accounts "Garvies Bioscope" was something of a "flea pit" too!

Garvie's showed "select cinemagraphic entertainment" every evening at 9.00pm and on Wednesday there was a matinee for children. The programme was changed twice weekly. Chairs were 3 rupees and half price in the gallery. "When the quality was very bad, the performance was interspersed by jeers as disapproving members of the Traveller's Club nearby threw empty bottles and more vulgar things on to the tin roof of the little theatre." Trzebinski, Kenya Pioneers, page 168.

;-)

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Lanarkshire / Re: The Garvie's of Glasgow and Holytown
« on: Tuesday 26 January 10 18:00 GMT (UK)  »
See "Garvies of Scotland" which lists some known Garvie families of Glasgow and other parishes  http://www.garvies.co.za/Docs/GarvieOfScotland.pdf. I trust this will help.

Colin Garvie

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