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Courage to Care
‘Two cultures’
Omphatyp’
A Sunshine Act for Scotland
“This isn’t a priority for us”
Bring me sunshine
Shame on us all
“The Sunshine label”
The many sponsorship opportunities provided by the Royal College of General Practitioners
The Scottish Government has chosen not to listen to the Scottish people
A decision made behind closed doors
The voices of the people really do matter
Unethical pharmaceutical marketing: a common problem requiring collective responsibility
Curriculum vitae
Declaration of interests
Delirium screening
‘Informed consent is a fundamental principle underlying all healthcare’
Faltering, unfaltering steps
Haloperidol prescribing to Scotland’s elders
Jason Leitch: qualifications and clinical experience
Infusion of worldwide teas
NHS Scotland requires a culture that listens to all
Scientific progress requires open-minded enquiry
The benefits of clinical engagement
The hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people
In support of professional values
OUR TOWN
Perpetrator responses to victim confrontation
The case for kindness
Leading to the Exit door
Leaving a profession
Looks out for each other
Medical publications
Messages about my retirement
Putting patients first: that is all I have tried to do
Serious Adverse Events
Testimonials for Dr Peter J. Gordon
The Governance of the NHS in Scotland
A Spartacus moment for public health physicians?
The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
Timely diagnosis of dementia
Dementia: the “epidemic” of metaphors
Dementia: who is in the “driving seat”?
I was concerned about our most elderly
Role of cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia care needs rethinking
Scotland’s approach to Dementia Diagnosis
Sertraline and Mirtazapine for depression in dementia [HTA-SADD]
The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
“This House supports the early detection of dementia”
The result: ‘Motion defeated’
Anti-amyloid immunotherapies: low benefit/risk ratio
“The data point to beta-amyloid playing a minor aetiological role”
‘Therapy related brain damage’
Estimating the true value: Aducanumab and Donanemab for Early Alzheimer Disease
Back in the driving seat: Industry
Joint Letter by Alzheimer’s Scientists
Dementia Case-Finding: language and ethics
Dementia’s Medical-Industrial-Charity Complex
Donanemab [TRAILBLAZER]
“The hyperbole in the media and scientific response is unjustified and cruel to patients”
Brain volume loss due to Donanemab
Donanemab: bleeding and Seizures
Donanemab:’The results may be misleading’
EPAD co-coordinator: Professor Craig Ritchie
Glasgow Memory Clinic
Hide and Seek
In a “muddle”?
Issues not considered in the ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
Keynote Lecture: Alzheimer Scotland: Annual Conference 2023
National Clinical Director for Dementia
Professor says: “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
absurdum
Scottish Brain Sciences
Adverts for ‘Scottish Brain Sciences’
Snakes, ladders and Monopoly
The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’ – a timeline
Wandering, wondering and worrying
Under-valued ideas
Deeside Tales
Short films about Deeside
The gate to Abergeldy
To be humbled.
Diary of a house
Pianos and Flowers
Films made by Peter
3 films that almost ended my career
A maker of beautiful books
The Great Tapestry of Scotland
A new way of seeing
A Thousand Chances
Alive in the river of light
Angelology
Bridge of Allan
bridges
Canto two
Finding Cimbrone
Folk worth talking about
friendship itself
Glenbardy
Go seek adventures
Here is where we meet
I am part of all that I have met
Important note about my films
in its ending
incorrigibly plural
It was the singing
Language is leaving me
Let the anchor go
Little Sparta
living mountains
man with the child in his eyes
Marginalia
mathematically me
Mossgrove garden
my library-haunting self
of an Antiquary
Oor big braw Cosmos
Political pieces
Progress hardly broke its stride
sensitive to the faltering steps of age
Sheramoor
Stravaiging need not be lonely
The anatomy of emotion
the blue flower
The bright cave under the hat
The Cabrach
the Glentruim series
The Rebel Antiquary
They fell for us
this gifted gardener [I discovered one day]
Time passes. Listen
To see what Scott saw:
Trees: age and beauty do go together
[Series II]
Firrhill High School
Hole Ousia [what does it mean?]
Mavisbank
On Esca’s Flow’ry Bank
Short films about Mavisbank
MEDICINE
Films about MEDICINE
Films about PSYCHIATRY
Films and Sapere Aude
Films on ETHICS
Films on Professional VALUES
Films that consider ‘First Do No Harm’
My dissertation on hedges
My schooling
One-word poems
Peter’s poems
Publications in the “Leopard”
The Ageing Stone
The making of the future
The speaking hedge
What is in a name?
being and becoming
“A place with no quotation marks”
Academic reductionisms
Admissions of doubt
Ariel
Cell Mates
Medical “truants”
Multifarious learners
A fortunate man
Dr Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Dr Arthur J. Brock
Dr Arthur Mitchell
Dr Daniel Reid Rankin
Dr Gavin Francis
Dr James Sheridan Knowles
Dr Leon Eisenberg
Dr Samuel Brown (1817 – 1856)
Edmund de Waal
Edward Victor Appleton
Femi Oyebode
Francis Seymour Haden
George Washington Wilson
Graham Watt
James Clerk Maxwell
James Ferguson
James Skene
John Berger
Here is where we meet
John Frederick William Herschel
K. J. Fowler
Kenneth Calman
Mr and Mrs Rose
Nadar
Patrick Matthew
Rev George Gilfillan
Richard Feynman
Scottish women writers
Sir Harry Burns
Theodore Dalrymple
Thomas Browne
William Friese-Greene
William Lewson Burrowes
William Ramsay
Philosophers
Albert Camus
Andrew Greig
Dr John Flaxman
Dugald Stewart
John Macmurray
John Stuart Mill
Mary Midgley
Raymond Tallis
Poets
Alexander laing
Bill Douglas
Caledonian Antisyzygy
Carol Ann Duffy
Daniel Abse
Donald Gordon
Edwin Morgan
Iain Banks
Iain Crichton Smith
Ivor Gurney
James Hyslop
James M Slimmon
John Betjeman
John Halliday
Kathleen Jamie
Kieron Winn
La Teste
Leonard Cohen
Liz Lochhead
Norman MacCaig
Patrick Deeley
Paul Muldoon
Peter Davidson
Rab Wilson
Rabbie Burns
Robert Fergusson
Robert Nicholl
Robert Pollok
Robin Hyde
Sylvia Plath
T S Eliot
Ted Hughes
Tom Leonard
Tomas Tranströmer
Wilfred Owen
William Carlos Williams
William Soutar
Sapere Aude
A bit of a prat
a very clever young man
Caroline Phillips
Chrys Muirhead
Claire Fox
Dr Donald Brownlie
Dr Margaret McCartney
Fara McAfee
Gawaine Baillie
Gerald
Hale-Bopp
Humpty Dumpty
I mistook myself for a scientific label
Jessie Lennox (a Nightingale)
Joan Eardley
John Aubrey
King Kong
Margaret Maberley Gordon
O. G. S. Crawford
Omphatyp’
Owen Jones
Richard Holloway
Richard Taylor
Roy Porter
Stanley Murray
Writers
A L Kennedy
A S Byatt
Adam Nicolson
Alan Trotter
Alexander McCall Smith
Ali Smith
Alice Hoffman
Andrew Greig
Andrew Miller
Annalena MacAfee
Anne Tyler
Anthony Doerr
Candia McWilliam
Cesare Pavese
Charlotte Peacock
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
David Szalay
Deborah Levy
Douglas Stuart
E M Forster
Emily Fridlund
Ernest Hemingway
Evelyn Waugh
Fiona Mozley
Ford Madox Ford
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gabriel García Marquez
Geoff Dyer
George Orwell
George Saunders
Hanya Yanagihara
Henry Mackenzie
Herman Melville
Howard Jacobson
Ian McEwan
Iris Murdoch
J. D. Salinger
Janice Galloway
Jessie Burton
John Buchan
John Lanchester
John Steinbeck
Joseph Conrad
Julian Barnes
Kazuo Ishiguro
Lampedusa
Laurie Lee
Madeleine Thien
Marcel Proust
Margaret Drabble
Matt Haig
Max Porter
Mohsin Hamid
Mukul Kesavan
Muriel Spark
Nan Shepherd
Nathan Filer
Oscar Wilde
Otessa Moshfegh
Penelope Fitzgerald
Rachel Cusk
Richard Flanagan
Richard Holmes
Richard Yates
Roald Dahl
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Seethaler
Rudyard Kipling
Sara Baume
Thomas Mann
Virginia Woolf
Vladimir Nabakov
Will Cohu
William Boyd
Yann Martel
in the world
A Sunshine Act for Scotland
“The influence of pharma is not excessive”
‘Listen, let the people petition and be heard’
‘To influence others by offering money’
A matter for others
Artificial light
Bring me a sunshine act
British Psychiatry: Marketing as ‘Education’
“A robust learning environment for healthcare professionals”
“A wrong un’ when you see it”
“An ethical relationship with pharma”
“Big Pharma Conspiracies”
“Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
“Dominated by people against psychiatric medication”
“Excessive claims by drug firms”
“FULLY BOOKED”
Yet more “education” funded by Industry
“MacDonald’s to advise on childhood nutrition”
“P R O M I S C U O U S”
“The place to go to” for CPD
“We have an appropriately puritanical relationship with Pharma”
“Working with the drug industry—is your reputation at risk?”
‘Fees for services’
‘Industry Biased Medicine’
‘Medical Education for the 21st Century’
‘MEDICAL EDUCATION: In the grip of industry?’
‘Psychiatry without borders’
‘Trusted Information Creator’
‘Welcome to Pharmacare’
2013 International Congress: Defensiveness
2017 International Congress: Psychiatry without Borders
“Performed well”
2018 International Congress: Psychiatry: New Horizons
“He delivered piercing insights”
2019 International Congress: The commercialisation and branding of a profession
ABC of Mental Health: Depression
BAP ‘educator’ on prescribing received $3,581,159 in payments from Pharma
BAP relationship with industry
A decade of BAP Summer Meetings
“BAPFEST”
An Erudite Encounter with Guy Goodwin
Lundbeck Institute: How should the education be provided and by whom?
Who’s paying your doctor
Guy Goodwin’s final blog as President of ECNP
Professor David Nutt: “The race is on to get it to market”
“Psychedelic drugs could soon treat alcoholism”
Imperial College London: a response from the Research Integrity Officer
Conflict of interest and the British Journal of Psychiatry
Continuing Medical ‘Education’
Correspondence with the British Association for Psychopharmacology
Crappy Branded Stuff
Darkness prevails: the Royal College of Psychiatrists
“Questioning the Journal’s independence and lack of scientific explanation in the College’s response”
Royal colleges are urged to be more transparent on industry payments
Data Protection: The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Is academic psychiatry for sale?
Is there evidence to support this statement?
It’s boom time for the College
Latuda: vigorously marketed in The UK
New Beginnings
New Editor-in-Chief of The British Journal of Psychiatry
Paid Opinion Leaders
“What a moment to join the party”
‘The race is on to get it to market’
2022 BAP Annual General Meeting
5 Live Science: Tackling Depression
A letter that the Scottish Parliament felt unable to publish
an extraordinary claim
Paid opinion leaders on public engagement
Professor David Nutt
The Royal College of Psychiatrists on sunshine legislation
Pharma payments to the Royal College of Psychiatrists [2019]
all that jingle-jangle of coins
Pharmaceutical influence and psychiatrists
Pharmavarsity
Prescribing Guidelines: let’s be transparent
Professors A, B, and C
Puritanical or Platinum?
RCPsych International Congress and BAP
Presidential handover
Rising stars: British Association of Psychopharmacology
Royal College of Psychiatrists: “This is a matter for the Government to decide”
“Shirking a leadership responsibility”
How many bite the hand that feeds them?
Satellite symposia and paid opinion leaders
Simon said
Has not left the building
The British Journal of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Industry advertising
“SPECIAL ARTICLE”
‘AUTHENTICITY’
Are competing interests of authors sufficiently transparent?
The Defeat Depression Campaign
“Buy it, read it and recommend it!”
“CONSENSUS STATEMENT”
Managing depression in general practice
“Defeating depression in old age”
“Dista Products [for] Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993”
“Doctors gamble on a cure”
“Fear of dependency”
“Fun Run”
“Generously sponsored by Smith Kline & Beecham”
“Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
“The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
“To mount a glossy campaign on the basis of this method is frankly disturbing”
‘Antidepressants unlimited’
‘Continuing to defeat depression’
‘Costs should have been considered’
‘Defeat Depression: A European Perspective’
‘Doctors’ Survey Sparks Campaign’
‘Dyspeptic Dinner Entertainment’
‘The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry’
‘Warm-up led by former DJ of Capital Radio’
‘We cannot be in the pockets of the Pharma companies’
‘Why can’t GPs follow guidelines on depression?’
(orders 100+ at 25p per leaflet)
A summary of the Educational Components
After the Defeat Depression Campaign
An ‘Educational Campaign’ sponsored by Pharma
How to Defeat Depression
Is depression a chronic illness?
LILLY Pharmaceuticals: the Defeat Depression Campaign
Mass prescribing
My career began with the Defeat Depression Campaign
One-and-the-same
Psychiatry in General Practice: a ‘Campaign’ begins
Putting caring conversations into practice
RCPsych archive: 5 Boxes
SSRIs: “Public confidence needs to be restored”
The ‘Chemical imbalance’ theory
This historical campaign has vital lessons for today
Video Training Package
What Price Depression?
The latest ‘Platinum Sponsor’ for RCPsych conference
The Law of the Few
The mismatch
The President’s Lecture
The RCPsych Psychopharmacology Committee – influence of industry
Transparency and British Psychiatry: Hold the applause
Transparency at the Top
Who pays the piper?
Led Astray – Industry’s Influence on Drug and Device Watchdogs
Medicine remains as conflicted as ever
‘Murky Stuff’
Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
“Attacks on antidepressants”
“Discontinuation syndrome”: sophistry of the drug industry
“groupthink”
“It is all too fashionable for psychiatry to be dismissed along with the medical model”
“Objectivity” does not come in a title
“The Coulson effect”?
‘At least 500 million years of nervous system evolution’
‘Tens of thousands of children’
Adolescent depression and anxiety
‘The tide may be turning’
‘They say no’
‘What steps can be taken to ensure that patient voices are listened to and heard’
A moral duty
RCPsych response to BBC Panorama
A Survey of the provision of support and withdrawal services for patients dependent on prescription drugs
A timeline of missed opportunities
“Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”
ALARMS IGNORED
An open letter to the incoming President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”
Words and numbers should be used with equal care
Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms -Telephone calls to a national medication helpline
Antidepressant withdrawal with Tony Kendrick and Mark Horowitz
Aripiprazole Augmentation in Older Persons with Treatment-Resistant Depression
Big Pharma with the help of the British Journal of Psychiatry
Collective values of an organisation in the era of social media
‘A fantastic insight’
RCPsych Presidential elections [2022/23]: in support of Dr Kate Lovett
Coming off antidepressants
Compelling evidence
‘Unpicked’ by an Expert
Cumberlege Report: First Do No Harm
A reply to Professor Robert Howard
A loss to science
CIRCLE values
Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?
Criticising psychiatry is still not ‘anti-psychiatry’
Language and professional values
‘Why all this nastiness?’: Twitter
2019: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
2022: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
A College Spokesperson
Screaming mouth
Language Matters: indeed it does
Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ
Medicine’s contract with society
Polypropylene Mesh Implants
Professionalism and psychiatry: past, present and future
Professionalism and psychiatry: the profession speaks
Psychiatrist #1 on First Do No Harm
Psychiatrist #2 on First Do No Harm
Psychiatrist #3 on First Do No Harm
Psychiatrist #4 on First Do No Harm
Psychiatrist #5 on First Do No Harm
Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
RCPsych values courage of its members and staff [but not, it seems, of patients]
Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
“Cult of Rob”
“flattering and gratifying”
“Stay classy”
‘outside the circle of listeners’
Do doctors need to be told to be kind?
Labelled
The case for kindness
the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer
Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]
Discontinuation of antidepressant therapy [1997 symposium]
From the individual to the Institution
Gilbert Farie Revisited
Going off antidepressants – take time to quit
It is by living that we learn
outside the circle of listeners
Pattern language: the professionals
Position Statement on antidepressants and depression
Some immediate reactions
RCPsych [Prescribed harm]
“Another me exists”
“Casual false reassurances”
“Pill Shaming”
“We care about our crest and it is sad to see it used this way”
A letter in the Times
An extraordinary divide
Antidepressant withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?
Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
SIBERIA
The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
unanswered
Realistic prescribing
“80% might be false positive”
“It’s BOOM time in Industry”
“That prescription figure is high”
“The biggest effect on human health is commercial determinants”
‘A generation in crisis’
‘Medicine remains a conflicted as ever’
‘The Medical Untouchables’
Aye RIGHT!
CHEMIST and DRUGGIST [heard the whisper?]
Moderate to severe depression: No evidence that CBT is less effective than antidepressants
New ADHD resource [missing information]
Our own window
Psychiatry in Fabula
RSM Health Matters Podcast: Episode 1 – Antidepressants
Science Media Centre
STAKEHOLDERS
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for the Elderly
Serotonin: What is its role in treating depression?
The Award culture of British Psychiatry
The Narrative Controllers
‘Chumcentric’
Conflict and antagonism within global psychiatry
Misuse of influence
Soft Power [and telling stories]
The Neon Yellow Preservation Society
the starting-point
Unanswered
Royal College of Psychiatrists: “Necessary redactions have been made”
S Y M B O L I C
Something is amiss with CR229
Stigma and Psychiatry
suicide cairns
The ANTLER trial
Published letters on the ANTLER Trial
The need for antidepressant withdrawal services
The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm]
“Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”
“Villains and Demonisers”
‘Antidepressant use: changing patterns, cost and clinical effectiveness’
Antidepressants (Overuse)
Antidepressants: ‘no good evidence’ for long-term use
Now over ONE MILLION
Yet again the Scottish Government fails to be transparent
The serotonin hypothesis of depression: both long discarded and still supported
This ‘U-turn’ has taken 30 years
We must heed the lessons of experience
Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care
Trial by Anecdote
Unrealistic Medicine
Architecture
‘The Story of Drummond Place’
18 Kilrymont Road
Abbotsford
Andrew Crosbie’s House
Auchinleck House
Bute House
Charles Brand Ltd
Dalhousie Memorial Arch
Drummond Place, Edinburgh
Edinburgh’s first Theatre
Forglen Mausoleum
Gladney House
Glasgow Necropolis
GOLDBERGS
Hermits and Termits
Hospitalfield House
Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
Kildonan House
Kinneil House
Laverock Dale Cottage
Mar Lodge, Stirling
McCaig’s Tower, Oban
Moatbrae House, Dumfries
Monument to the Political Martyrs’
Muschat’s cairn
Old Royal High School, Edinburgh
Peterson’s Tower
Rainbow slides, Stirling
Scottish architectural follies
SeaPark
Shakespeare Square
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
Temple of the Muses
TEMPLE [Cupar]
The galleria
The Red Road flats
The Wallace Monument
The Well of the Seven Heads
Tower of Glenstrae
Warriston Gates
Ardeer Explosive’s Factory
Bridges
Abergeldie foot-bridge
Boat o’Brig
Brewlands bridge
Broom of Moy
Broomhill wooden bridge
Faery Bridge, Dunblane
Forth Road Bridge
Garva bridge
Haugh of Drimmie
Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
Millhaugh bridge
Old White Bridge
Tay Bridge
The bridge to nowhere
The Glenfinnan Viaduct
The Old Bridge of Livet
Twa Gables
CITIES
Films about ABERDEEN
Films about DUNDEE
Films about EDINBURGH
Films about GLASGOW
Films about PERTH
Films about STIRLING
D.L.R.O.W
The mild cigar
Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
landscapes (time held green)
‘Hill of the Resurrection’
Carsebreck
Cliff House
Dunbuy
Duncryne
Garden Archaeology
Gardeners
‘Gardener Found Insane’
A high summer garden
A new generation of gardeners
A Nursery Manager
Abergeldie’s gardener
Alexander Gibson
Alexander Marr
Alexander Walker
Arbigland’s gardener
Archie Leech
Boghead, Bathgate
Carnbroe’s gairdener
Charles Bell, Ormistoun Hall
Charles Frampton
Charles Webster
COREHOUSE
David Pringle Laird
Davina, Lady Stair
Dorothy Renton
Eagle and Henderson
Glassingall Gardener
Glentulchan gardener
Helen Carmichael
James Hossack, Castle Cluny
James Ironside
James Sutherland
John Halliday
John Wright Paton
Last of Horse Wynd
Miss Hope
Monty Don
Ninian Niven
No.1 Shrub Place
OLDEST GARDENER
Patrick’s garden
Peter and Sian’s garden
Peter Gordon, gardener
Peter Rankin, Glen Creran
Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’
Peter Thomson: ‘the patient art of fieldwalking’
R E E K I A N A
Return to the seed
Robert Graham of Tamrawer
Robert Martin
Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens
Robert Rust
Scotland’s Silver Glen
Teri and Paul Hodge-Neale
That garden [on either side of the burn]
The Abbotsford gardener
The Astronomical Gardener
The auld gardener
The Edzell Castle gardeners
The gardener of Finca Vigia
The gentle gardener
The Queen’s Gardener
The Sisters’ Garden
Thomas Cleghorn
Tom Spence
Under Gardener [D U N I R A]
Volunteer gardener
Wellington Dauncey
William Rutherford
Garrel Glen
Gauch
Glen Girnoc
Abergeldie castle
Bovaglie
Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)
The Bovaglie manuscript
Loinveg
The Camlet
Glenbardy
ISLANDS
Alloa Inch
Eilean Fhianain
Eilean nam Faoileag
Eilean Subhainn
Inchcolm island
Linga Isle
Lismore
Lucky Scaup
Samalaman
St Kilda
Vallay
Jock’s Road
Kilmadock churchyard
Leckie Glen
Little Sparta
Lochnagar
Stronmilchan
The Devil’s Pulpit
The Dragon’s Hole
The Hill
The John Muir Way
The living mountain
The Lost Garden of Dunira
The lost garden of Penicuik
The suicide graves
Wanzie
Mental Health Tsar
Mortar and Pestles
Necessity Brae
Rogues’ Gallery
Duncan Paton
Helen Nicholson
John Grovenor
John Moir
John Yates alias John Hewitt, Patrick Hines, John Miller, John Roy
Peter [alias John]
Philip Hughes
The Highland Hotel Robbers
William Slater
The Great Globe
The Jam factory
Trees
Adam and Eve [Eden Place, Rothesay]
Balmachie Plane tree
Beauly’s Wych Elm
Betty’s tree
Cathedral of trees
Goodnestone chestnut tree
One way of measuring a tree
Seven Sisters Oak
Sir Walter Scott’s Tree
The Benvie Ash tree
The bicycle tree
The Bonhill Ash trees
The Chapel Tree: ‘Early Man in the Scottish Landscape’
The Dule Tree[s] of Newark Castle
The Lanrick stone tree
The oldest and largest tree in the world
The Tree of Mains
The Wallace Oak
The Yellow Gowan Tree
Trunk of an Oak tree
Yew trees
Adam and Eve Yews
An incredibly ancient child
“When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree”
Chapel of the Yew Trees
Craigend Yew
Earlshall [shapes abandoned]
I Vow Yew
Rockingham elephants
Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees
St Columba’s Yew
Stow on Wold Yews
The Abbotshall Yew
The Auchendrane Yew
The circular Yew hedge
The Culfargie Yew
The Fraser Yew
The Inchbrakie Yew
The little loch of the yew grove
The Ormiston Yew
The Raploch Yew
The Somerleyton Yew
The Wallace Yew
Waverley
Mind The Gap
where time passes (listen)
Bridge of Allan
‘Quote of the week’
A bridge over the Allan Water
Bridge of Allan gardens
Chemists and Apothecaries
Charles Neil Rutherfoord
Gilbert Farie
Oswald Robertson
Drumdruills
Beware the Fly!
Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
Millad
Miss Jessie lennox
Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
Rab Scott
Stevenson’s cave
The Wharry Glen
The Wrights of Loss
Films about BRIDGE of ALLAN
Fire Brigade
Fountain of Nineveh
A dry fountain that once gushed and sparkled in the sunlight
History
‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
ARCHIVE [old photographs and writings]
Craig Mair
Glimpses of Local History
Landmarks of Bridge of Allan
Lecropt
‘A Lecropt Girl’
Keir Estate, Stirling
Keirfield
David Rutherfoord
Lecropt and Larger Scotland
Ten summers fade
The Rutherfoord letters
Mossgrove
Arborglyphs
Diary of a house
FAMILY films
Hale Bopp
He cannot unlearn the feeling
MERRYTHOUGHT
Mossgrove garden
Our cats
Our graffiti bench
The Medicine is in Aberdeen
The son of a Bank Manager
This is not yesterday
Tillybin
VANDAL
Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
We follow them, as they are us
Photographs of Bridge of Allan
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sheriffmuir
Shops, buildings and houses
105 Henderson Street
Fernfield
John Cullens
Museum Hall
Music Hall
Mrs Hamilton
Professor Ewart
Professor Whitworth
Our first village shop
SPA CLEAN [ZERO WASTE]
St Ann’s
The Cleopatra needle
The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
The Well House, Bridge of Allan
Well House restoration project
The Ochils
Ashintrool
Hercules
in a SERIES II Land Rover
Jerah
Village doctors
Dr Alexander Wilkie Paterson
Dr Andrew S. Biggart
Dr Balbirnie
Dr Eric Dow
Dr John Hosack Fraser
Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord
Dr Mary Baird Hannah
Dr William Eagleson Gordon
Dr William Haldane
Dr William Halliday Welsh
Villagers [old and new]
A poet as well as a gardener
Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s
Finn Russell
Hector Dove
Holed out in ONE!
John McCaig
Mrs Fridge
Old Village Worthies
Remembering Ian and Malcolm
Rev Charles Rogers
The Owl Man
The Tufty Club
Waller Hugh Paton
Dunblane
Andy Murray
Dunblane Cathedral reopens
Folk worth talking about
“Dr Frederick Adair”
‘Big Kate’
‘Black’ John Skirving
‘Bob Dragon’
‘Dr William Brodum”
‘SCOTUS’
‘Whistling Willie,’ the LION MAN
A Big Burd
A Railway-Porter Astronomer
Agnes Mary
Albert Ernest Pickard
Alexander Munnoch
Alexander Ormiston Curle
Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA
Allison
Aloysius
Andrew Wilson
Angus John Campbell
Ann Shaw
Anne Grant of Laggan
Annie Graham Baird
Arthur
As strove this man who
Aubrey Beardsley
Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild
Betty Anderson
Betty Mouat
Burrish Lyons
C. P. Snow
Captain Alexander Morrison
Captain Michael Slater
Captain Peter Gordon
Captain Phillips
Carol Colburn Grigor
Caroline Stuart Clarke
Charlotte Skinner
Clive Wright
Colin McWilliam
CYNICUS
Dandie Dinmont
Dani Garavelli
Daniel Muirhead
David Bowie
Davina Gordon
Diana Rigg
Doddie Weir
Dr John Macintyre
Dr John Stuart
Dr Pat Beausang
Dr Peter Brunt
Dr Quackleben
Dr Syntax
Drue Heinz
Ed Ruscha
Elijah Wood
Elizabeth and Ada
Ella Rae
Emma Raducanu
Ena Scott
Eric Redmond
Esmé Gordon
Felix Feneon
Florence Taylor
Francis Moncrieff
Fynes Moryson
Geoffrey Jellicoe
Grayson Perry
Gregory’s girl
Gunnar Jungner
Hannah Ann Stirling
Hector Dove
Henrietta
Ian Collins
Ignotus ex Aquis
Ion Keith-Falconer
Ivor Gurney
J. J. R. Macleod
Jacob Forster
James Ferguson
James Maxwell Glover Wilson
James Muir
James Woodburn Dunlop
Jane Creighton
Janet B Wood
Janetta Sophie Dalglish Pollock
Jenny Nettles
Joan Eardley
John Byrne
John Glen Parker
John Mackenzie Bacon
John Marshall Scott
John Ramsay of Ochtertyre
John Wilson
Johnston Shearer
Jonathan and Mary E. Reed
Joseph Gordon
Kenneth Kuanda
Lola Montes
Lord Esher
Margaret Mary Risk
Mary Melvill
Mary Wollstonecraft
Miss Christina Gib
Mr Perpetual Motion
Mrs Crudelius
MRS H B B Paull
Mrs Hendry
Mrs Picken
My Great Uncle Peter
Nancy Prentice
Nora Rintoul
Octavius Morgan
Oliver Postgate
Oswald Bates
Patrick Geddes
Peter Pan
Professor Cairo
Prophet Peden
PUDDIN’
Rashiebog
REDCAR
Rev. I. M. Jolly
Richard Wright Heath
Robert Atkinson
Robert Cornelius
Robert Hutchison
Saad F Ghalib
Sally Scott
Scipio
Shane Mac Thomáis
Sian Fiona Williams
Simon Sutherland
Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster
Snibs
Sophia Jex-Blake
Tam Dalyell
Terry Burns
The Buchanites
The Lass o’ the Lecht
The Lighthouse Georgesons
The Odd Dr Todd
The Red Lady
The Wizard of the North
Thomas Hastie Bryce
Tom John Moore
William Borthwick
William Delacour
William Friese-Greene
William Graham
William Hay Leith Tester
Winifred Roberts
Ruins
A modern ruin
Aberdeen
142 King Street, Aberdeen
Royal Cornhill Hospital
Aberdeenshire
20 Main Street, Buckpool
Auchtavan
Bridgealehouse
Brodie’s cairn
Brucklay castle
Castle Newe
Clinterty
Croy House
East Lodge, Aberlour House
Glen Girnoc
Bovaglie
Loinveg
The Camlet
Glencowie, Strathdon
Kingseat Hospital
Knowsie House
Largue, Glenkindie
Lessendrum House
Nether Buckie: covered water reservoir
Pennan farm
Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
South Milton Cottage
the Cabrach
Auchmair
Bank
Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach
Buck, Cabrach
Cabrach Shooting Lodge
Gauch
Glenfiddich Shooting Lodge
Largue, Cabrach
Powneed, Cabrach
Tombain, Cabrach
Upper Cabrach School
The Temple of Polmona [or fame]
Thornbush, Gourdon
Tollafraick, Glenkindie
Whitehaugh Mausoleum
Angus
Aldbar castle
Aldbar Chapel
Backbrae Youth Hostel
Fishtown of Usan
Fraser Mausoleum and Mortuary Chapel
Kincaldrum House
Knowegreens Inn
Lindertis
Maison Dieu, Brechin
Maulesden
Meigle steading
Panmure House
Rossie castle
Strathella
Tirlybirly
Torwood Cottage
Argyllshire
Badnaiska, Loch Awe
Barbreck Mausoleum and Folly
Bathwell, Rosneath
Dalmally Tabernacle
Glen Fruin Schoolhouse
Kilneuair Chapel
Oban Hydropathic
Rosneath Castle
The Clock Lodge
The Kist
Turnalt
W A T C H M A N
Ayrshire
ANGEL Inn
Auchinleck Summerhouse
Caldwell House
Catrine House
Chapel farmhouse
Cleikum Inn
Craigends House
Dalquharron
Fullarton’s Folly
Glenure [Glenover]
Greenock Tempietto
High Dalblair
Oswald’s Temple
The Dutch Gable House
The Macrae Monument
The Viking Cinema
Whigham Inn
Bardrill farm
Clackmannanshire
Alva Ice House
Cherryton Brick Works
Hartshaw Tower
Sheardale House
The Garlet
Tullibody House
Dumfriesshire
Barnbarroch
Carnsalloch
Cormilligan
Crawthat cottage
Gelston castle
Gordonston
Kenmure castle
The H E R M I T A G E [Friars’ Carse]
Dunbartonshire
Dunglass Castle and Bell’s Memorial
The Friends of Truth burial ground
Woodbank House, Balloch
Dundee
Edinburgh
Allan Ramsay’s House
Bristo Port
Cammo House and Estate
Causewayside Service Station
Dryden, Bilston Glen
Edinburgh’s Orphan Hospital
Edmonstone house and park
Falcon Hall
Gilmerton House
Hawkhill Villa
Patriothall Laundry
PIPE Lane
Rockville, Edinburgh
Shakespeare Square
St Leonard’s
The Drummond Scrolls
England
Blackborough House
Fife
24/26 High Street West, Anstruther
Abdie Curling House
Balyarrow
Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay
Castlehill Colliery
Corston Mill
Craighall castle
Crawford Priory
Dunbog House
Kilmaron castle
Largo House
Lucky Scaup
Siberia
St Fort, Newport, Fife
The Binn
The Temple of Decision
Thornton Fever Hospital
Forth Valley
Alloa Inch
Avondale House
Bandeath armaments depot
Bannockburn House
Buckieside
Carnock House
Carron House
Club’s Tomb
Cowiehall
Craigton mausoleum
Drumnessie
Dunmore House
Glenhove tomb
Jawhills
Kennetpans
Lathallan House
Lochgreen
Orchardhead, Bothkennar
Rullie
Scotland’s Close, Bo’ness
Stockiemuir Anti-Aircraft Battery
Stoneyinch farm
Tamrawer
Westfield viaduct
Glasgow
Balmoral Crescent
Dreghorn Mansion, Glasgow
Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium
Garngad House
Glasgow Green Station
Petershill
SINGER Factory, Clydebank
Walkinshaw House
Highlands
An Dachaidh
Dalnawillan Lodge
Helen’s Well
Mains of Ulbster
Poltalloch
Rosehall House
Vallay
Invernesshire
Allt Catanach
Badnambiast
Ballachroan
Blaragie
Easter Limekilns
Glenbanchor
Heatherbell
Moy House
Ruichlachrie
Sronphadruig Lodge
Lanarkshire
Boathouse, Blantyre
Carmichael House
Carnbroe
Carstairs Mausoleum
Douglas Support
Dykehead, Strathaven
Eastend, Carmichael
Gilbertfield castle
Keeper’s House for Hamilton Mausoleum
Rawyards Cotton Mill
Shark’s Mouth, Coatbridge
Smyllum Park
Lochery
Lochrosque
Lothian
Amisfield, Haddington
Gosford Mausoleum
Hatton estate
Mavisbank
Mavisbank (as Clerk’s “villa”)
Mavisbank (maps and plans)
Mavisbank (newspaper cuttings)
Mavisbank (the Asylum years)
Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
Mavisbank: Talk to the Civic Trust Conference
Roseberry steading
Roslin Curling Pond
STOBS Gunpowder Mills
Perth
Custom House, Bridgend, Perth
Perthshire
Apollo’s Temple
Argaty House
Arnhall castle
Arnmore House
Auchloy
Auld Fossoway
Balboughty Dairy
Bardrill
Bishopsfauld
Blackford Farms Ltd
Boreland Cottage
Boreland Farmhouse
Braes of Doune
Broadley
Broomhill
Buttergask
Charlotte’s Cave
Craigmill cottage, Inverpeffray
Dillot
Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie
Dunalastair
Duncrub house
Dupplin West Lodge
Eilean nam Faoileag Folly, Loch Rannoch
Evelick castle
Feddal castle
Gannochan
Gascon Hall
Glendevon castle
Glenside
Glentulchan
Haldrick
Holmehill House
House of Nairne
Inchbrakie
Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’
Inverpeffary castle and library
Keirwoodhead
Kilmadock old churchyard
Knowehead, Blackford
Lairhill
Lanrick castle (demolished)
Lanrick Home farm
Little Tullybelton
Lynedoch
Maidsmill
Millearne
Muir o’Gill
Newton of Condie
Pitmiddle village
Powside
Rosecraig, Strathbraan
Side of Balhaldie
Straid
Stronhavie
Stronvar House
The Esher-Stank mausoleum
The Mercer Obelisk
Tombane
Topfauld farm
Tullybeagles Lodge
Upper Quoigs
West Dron Hill Farm
Wester Bow
Wester Clow
Whaick
Williamsfield cottage
Renfrewshire
Balrossie
Skye
Gesto House, Skye
Kingsborough, Skye
Totarder
Stirling
Borrowmeadow Farm
Carim Lodge
Christie Memorial Clock
Haugh of West Grange
Heathershot
Keir Home Farm
MARIEVILLE
Polmaise castle
Shielbrae
Steuartfield
Wanderwang
Westleys farm
The Borders
Ellemhaugh
Haughhead
Hundy Mundy
Huntershall Inn, Dun Law
Lion Gate, West Lodges, Ladykirk House
Roxburgh House, Kelso
West Lothian
Almond or Haining castle
Auchengray House
Balbardie
Duntarvie castle
Grovemount
Kipps
Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar
Leadloch farm
Polkemmet Mausoleum
The REGAL Cinema
Waterloo Tower
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“Possession”
by A S Byatt is one of my favourite books.
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