GLASGOWOLD PEOPLE’S WELFARE ASSOCIATION

Be happy, stay healthy and join our clubs.

We care about senior citizens ... could you?

No need to knock on our door, it is always open!

Sheena Glass, Director of Glasgow Old People’s Welfare Association, invites all senior citizens in Glasgow to rise to the challenge during the organisation’s Jubilee year – 60 years young!

If you know someone, or yourself, who will benefit from our help, tell them to contact us or tell us to contact them.

Too often in the busy lifestyle we have, too many vulnerable older people slip through the safety net.

Please use our experience and expertise to solve any problem you may have. From home visits for benefit checks, income maximisation, advocacy and general information, we are here for you.

We are a “hands-on” charity for our older people and are self-funded. Please give generously to promote our good work and to show our appreciation and respect to the wonderful senior citizens of Glasgow.

7 Sandyford Place, Glasgow, G3 7NB Telephone: 0141 221 9924 Fax: 0141 221 6244 www.gopwa.co.uk Scottish Memories SEPTEMBER2008

CCoovveerr SSttoorryy

Our front cover this month from the lens of ace landscape photographer Dennis Hardley is of St Abbs Head lighthouse atop the steep Berwickshire cliffs.

Scottish Memories Lang Syne Publishers Ltd Strathclyde Business Centre, 120 Carstairs Street, Glasgow G40 4JD. Tel: 0141 554 9944 Fax: 0141 554 9955 Email: info@scottish-memories.co.uk

FOUNDER/PUBLISHER Ken Laird

Editor George Forbes

Advertising Manager Alison Fraser

Designer Dorothy Meikle

Subscriptions

0141 554 9944

Print Warners Midlands Plc

Distribution Warners Midlands Plc

ISSN 0968 7874. The publishers, authors and printers cannot accept liability for errors or omissions. Any transparencies, prints or artwork will be accepted at owner’s risk. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the copyright holder and the publisher, application for which should be made to the publisher. The editor reserves the right to shorten or rewrite any submitted material at his discretion without consultation. © Lang Syne Publishers Ltd. 2008

Periodicals postage is paid at Rahway, NJ. SCOTTISH MEMORIES is published monthly by Lang Syne Publishers Ltd., Strathclyde Business Centre, 120 Carstairs Street, Glasgow, G40 4JD, Scotland. POSTMASTER send address corrections to SCOTTISH MEMORIES, c/o Averbell Ltd., P.O. Box 32510, Fridley, MN 55432. Distributed in the USA by Mercury Intl., 365 Blair Road, Avenel, NJ 07001.

Inside

Winding Waters

2

2

Chiel,Fancy Thats,Wit And Wisdom

4

A Moveable Keep 5

Ever Upwards

6

Marking The Miles 8

The Murder Ballads 10

Sounds Of Scotland 11

6

The Massacre Of The Weekend Wonders 12

O’er The Hills And Far Away

14

Unexplored Isles

Feats And Fairs

Time Capsules

16

18

20

Dennis Hardley’s View Of The Month 24

Dancing Stones

28

12

Newsflash ’78 30

Pioneers In Healing 32

Coming Attractions 34

The George Forbes Column

35

32

Nothing But The Tooth 36

Keeping The Sabbath 38

Supernatural Scotland,Time Capsule 39

Time Capsules

41

Mailbox

Poets Corner

42

43

44

September Scenes 44

Doctor Of The Occult 46

Next month in Scottish Memories • Evocative Aromas • Autumn Tints • Built To Last • Cave Of Dreams • Felling The Forest • Coastal Snaps

October issue on sale Thursday,September 25th.

www.scottish-memories.co.uk

View Of The Month

In this issue it is a panoramic sweep of th e

Tay Forest Park near Tummel Bridge

in Perthshire; and it can be viewed

on pages 24 and 25.