Oxgangs-A Pastime From Time Past #20 Rab Moir 8/5 Oxgangs Avenue

A later arrival at 8/6 Oxgangs Avenue after the Calder family left Oxgangs in 1966 were the Moir family who took up residence at the flat. 

I was the first person to meet Rab Moir. 

Rab will be remembered for his large Alsation dog and love of motorbikes - he was a a few years older than me, but he was small and squarely built - I had a friendly relationship with him and perhaps because I was the first person to befriend him felt he tended to look out for me. 

He didn't join in at football or much else, but clearly he had been a player, playing in the good St Patrick's Primary School team; the photograph is from the 1965/66 season taken at the Warriston Playing Fields - Rab is back row, extreme left.

Paul Kaszynski: Can't remember the dog's name but it used to leap into his arms, it was almost as big as him.

Dougie Begbie: Which dog - he had Beefy then Mushow.

Tam Smith: Yes Peter, Rab joined the rest of us later. He bid play some football with me, Colin Benson, Junior (David McLeod, 2 Oxgangs Street) and a few others from across the main road - Eric Carruthers; Tich, and Rab McMillan and Alex Cunninghan - Alex was a bit younger than us but he was a great player.

When Rab and I got our moter bike licenses we sat outside working under the street light; it was bloody cold at 11 o'clock at night. His big brother George helped sometimes, then we would take the bikes for a run - good times.

Lisa Sibbald: I remember Rab well. We used to often travel on the same No. 5 bus in the morning when I was going to school (Gillespie's) and he was going to Ramsay Tech. - and of course I was into motorbikes.