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An energetic lady from Whiting Bay proved that you are never too old to have fun this week when she jumped on the back of a four cylinder, 900cc motor tricycle.
Ena Arnold, aged 89, first got a taste for motorbikes back in 1930 when her father had a bike and sidecar.
Her home-carer Nigel Taylor decided to take her for a spin on his tricycle to let her feel the wind in her hair once again.
‘It can go faster than the bike and sidecar,’ she said after a wee run. ‘Thank you, Nigel.’
Jim Arnold, Ena’s son said that in 1930 his mother lived in Dalmuir, near Clydebank, and that the family holiday in Maidens would be quite a distance for them to travel on the old bike and side-car.
‘They visited Maidens a lot. In fact mother Bennett (Ena’s mum) got to know a householder who allowed her to keep camping stuff in the basement,’ said Jim. ‘The house is still there, though the fields round about are now all built up.
‘Ena’s mum was killed in the Clydebank blitz and the camping stuff was never retrieved!’
Jim added: ‘We can see Maidens from Whiting Bay, where we live now. It was really Ena’s mum who wanted to ‘get away camping’.
‘Grandad had the responsibility of the transport and was not so adventurous.
‘That spirit came out in both Ena and her brother George and in Ena’s case it was her confidence that persuaded dad that they should buy a very old cottage in Whiting Bay in 1960 and eventually they managed to build the house that we are in now.’
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