God With Us – Abergeldy (part 1)
Chapter 4 of ‘Deeside Tales’: Abergeldy has become a dear friend to me and perhaps in another life I would be fortunate enough to be its chatelaine. Yet that is … Continue reading God With Us – Abergeldy (part 1)
Category: Deeside Tales
Material relating to upper Deeside including my book ‘Deeside Tales: The stories of a small glen’
God with us – Abergeldy (part 2)
It is time now to leave the Jacobite cause and to return to Peter Gordon the eldest son of Captain Charles and Rachel Gordon. This Peter was to become the … Continue reading God with us – Abergeldy (part 2)
Rachel Gordon of Abergeldy
With the death of Peter, the thirteenth laird of Abergeldy, in 1819 the entrail took a knights-shift. Peter had no son and heir to leave his estate, and so it … Continue reading Rachel Gordon of Abergeldy
Under the Cosh – Mill of Cosh
Chapter 5 of ‘Deeside Tales’: Under the Cosh – Mill of Cosh Abergeldy has taken us on quite a journey meeting the good, the great, and the not so great … Continue reading Under the Cosh – Mill of Cosh
Wolf McAndrew – Lynvaig
Chapter 6 of ‘Deeside Tales’: Wolf McAndrew – Lynvaig It was a curious yet stirring dream. It all started at the Cosh with a vintage car rally of which I … Continue reading Wolf McAndrew – Lynvaig
The Muckle Inventors – Littlemill
Chapter 7 of ‘Deeside Tales’: The Muckle Inventors – Littlemill This chapter takes us to the life-blood of Deeside, for its capillaries, like the Girnoc, all flow into the silvery … Continue reading The Muckle Inventors – Littlemill
The Forgotten Door
Chapter 8 of Deeside Tales: The Forgotten Door – The Genechal It was with very great interest that I read chapter seven of Robert Smith’s book ‘A Queen’s Country’ published … Continue reading The Forgotten Door
Lochnagar: stoneballs
Chapter 9 of ‘Deeside Tales: the stories of a small glen’ This chapter, let me say at outset, carries neither political correctness nor respect of authority. You see whisky, Deeside, … Continue reading Lochnagar: stoneballs