Softly, her little head doth lie

I am often asked:

‘Why do you visit so many ruins?’ Generally followed by: ‘Why do you carry a teddy bear with you?’

I reply by stating that I am a little ‘madcap’ and that I like to go on ‘wee adventures’ with my ursine friend.

This short film seeks to go a bit deeper, to explore a world of transience and transition in which we all live and die.

This film is for ‘Wee Mary’ and her Dungavel family [all dead]

CREDITS:
Opening voice: Rowan Williams [BBC Radio 4]
Music: Exit Music – by Steven Lindsay [I do not have copyright]
Drone footage: by RaymieS [I do not have copyright]1859:

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First edition Ordnance Survey map:

 

4 March 1912, Hamilton Advertiser:

10 October 1913, accidental death, at Darngavel, of Mary Moffat, aged 2 years 5 months:

17 October 1914, Hamilton Advertiser:

8 June 1916, Hamilton Advertiser:

3 April 1931, Motherwell Times:

26th May 1936, death of Isabella Moffat from advanced breast cancer:

23 December 1938, Wishaw Press:

1 March 1952, death of Thomas Moffat:

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