Out of the Camp

Roger Cairns

Out of the Camp Ch. 42 – Brick Walls and Shysters

We had probably been in California three or four years when Mary took it into...
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Out of the Camp Ch. 41 – Changes

When the group, ‘Listen’, broke up and all the extensive national press coverage, the Parlophone...
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Out of the Camp Ch. 40 – Immigration

When I left Edinburgh in 1967, I would tend to go home for a visit...
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Out of the Camp Ch. 39 – Dima, New York & Andy Williams.

That was the way things were left for many years, aside from one or two...
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Out of the Camp Ch. 38 – Gilmerton Dykes to Hyvots to … 

It didn’t take long thanks to Edinburgh’s council house tenant exchange programme, for Mr. Smith’s...
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Out of the Camp Ch. 37 – Canada

As I’ve so earnestly engaged myself in bearing my soul on these pages over recent...
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Out of the Camp Ch. 36 – Turnhouse, Morcambe Bay and more

Around the same time that I left Moredun Primary School to go to the Inch...
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Out of the Camp Ch. 35 – “How would you feel if it were true?”

The week following our trip to Grantham when my uncle had ‘spilled the beans’ about...
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Out of the Camp Ch. 34 – Sunday Mornings in Moredun

Before I get back to Moredun I need to finish this story referred briefly to...
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Out of the Camp Ch. 33 – Back to Moredun via Worksop & Music

Pleasurama was a duo consisting of songwriters, Mike Young, aka David Motion, and Dave Kovacevic....