Molly Weir – Shoes Were For Sundays – Autobiography

Born in Springburn, Glasgow on 17 March 1910…Molly’s working life  began as a shorthand typist in an office in the city, always a keen  writer – her first article was published in the Glasgow Evening Times  when she was only 15 yrs old.  She went on to write eight volumes of  autobiography, radio scripts for BBC woman & children programmes, a  newspaper columnist and she wrote a best selling cookery book Much of  Molly’s spare time was spent in amateur dramatics and she was spotted by  the radio talent show host, Carl Lewis, whose show she appeared on but  her big break came when she played the part of Tattie MacIntosh in a BBC  radio comedy called ‘Its that man again’
She had a lovely Scottish accent and her voice was in demand for many TV  commercials, notably the cleaning detergent ‘Flash’ and ‘Mother’s  Pride’ bread. She lived in London since 1945, always a proud Scot she  was honoured and named  Scotswoman of the Year in 2000.  Molly lived in  Pinner, near London when she died, aged 94 on 28 Nov 2004 the loving  sister of broadcaster and naturalist Tom Weir.
As well as the big Church, where we went to Sunday School and Bible  Class, and had our church parades of Girl Guides and the Boys Brigade,  we had the excitement in summertime of tent missions coming to  Springburn to convert us. We didn’t know we were being converted from  our heathenish ways, we just enjoyed the sight of the huge tent being  erected on a piece of waste ground at the end of Gourley Street, and we  begged to be allowed to help to hand out little leaflets telling all  that Jock Troup would be preaching and saving souls that night and all  week from 7 30pm.
As soon as our tea was swallowed, we raced back to get front seats, and  the adults crowded in at our backs, greatly entertained to be having  hellfire preached to them inside a tent. Jock was great value, and we  all imitated him afterwards, not in any spirit of derision, but in  profound admiration. He could make the flames of hell so real, we felt  them licking round our feet and the prospect of heaven so alluring we  often stood up to be saved several times during the week, just to see  him fall on his knees in thankfulness at having plucked so many brands  from the burning. His hymns were different from those in Sunday School  and had a sort of music hall ring to them which we all enjoyed.

She appeared in a number of television series, plays and films a few from which were :-
1949-Floodtide                    1951-Cheer the brave
1953-Forces sweetheart            1954-Life with the Lyons
1955-The Lyons in Paris           1961-Carry on regardless
1962-Visiting Day                 1969-Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1970-Scrooge                      1971-Hands of the Ripper
1975-Root of all evil             1975-One of our dinosaurs is missing
1976-Rentaghost                   1996-Flowers of the Forest
1999-Captain jack.