Had a blether with my mum. She can remember a couple of Vale songs, so I'll get these onto the site. I didnt' know Dick played accordian, but she obvioulsy remembers it well. The only McDonalds she could place were in Smollet St, and the only guy she could remember working with Willie was a guy called TOmmy Smith, though I think he was maybe an apprentice rather than doing running and stuff. When are we talking about Jim?

Sorcha, we were looking for one song (though from what my mum says maybe two) I'll get at least some of the lyrics as a prompt.

The Hiking song is the song that was "blocking" these others.

I don't know where your based Sorcha, but the Vale of Leven, 15-20 miles from Glasgow, is quite an interesting area,in that it was a series of small villages based along the river and know for its natural beauty, leading to banks of Loch Lomond. Housing policy in Glasgow in the sixties lead to the boom in house building,to accomodate what was called Glasgow over-spill, rapidly transforming what was still recognisably rural villages inthe sixties through to satellite towns of Glasgow.

I'll re-post once I've got some lyrics.