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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

The Well Hoose

The following account of visiting Bridge of Allan Well House is by Dr Murray Cook [as published in the Stirling Observer, 7 October 2020] The following images were taken by … Continue reading The Well Hoose

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 18th, 21st May 1947, 50th, Ageing is Truth, Airthrey, Albert Ernest Bayne, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Water, Allan Water cafe, Altered Images, Alva, And the old brass bed they bought together, Andrew Robert Gordon, Andy Murray, Arnhall, Arnhall castle, Bannockburn House, Blair Drummond, Blawlowan, Bologna, Borrowmeadow, Borrowmeadow farm, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - a history, Bridge of Allan Highland Games, Bristol, But I'll remember thee, Carse, Carse of lecropt, Chalybeate, Chalybeate pump, Chalybeate well, Charles Rogers, Classic car rally, Cleopatra's needle, Cleopatra's triangle, Constitution Street, COSTA, Craig Mair, David Livingstone, David Rutherfoord, David Rutherford, doctor, Dr Eric Dow, Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord, Dr W H Welsh Trust, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Dunblane, Eliza Black, Enlightenment, Family film, Fernfield, first Stirling marathon, fish and chips, Florence Nightingale, Gang Forward, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Great Scottish Tapestry, Greatest Reward, Hannah Ann Stirling, Heathershot, Henderson Street, Hercules, Hercules bear, Highland Games, Hole Ousia, Hydropathic, icecream, It is not down in any map, It is not down in any map true places never are, James McEwen, jeely piece, Jerah, Jessie lennox, Keir, King's village found, Kippenrait, Lecropt, Living to tell the Tale, Lord Kames, Malcolm Allan, Mark Stanford, Mauchline Belle, Mavisbank, menstrie Glen, Millad, Monumental Madness, Mossgrove, moving on, Murray Cook, Museum Hall, mytholm, Nature's Fashionable Lounge, Nineveh fountain, non est mortale quod opto, NOTES, NOTES No. XXIV., Now through my window, Ochils, Olympic torch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, Orchard House, Part of, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Pathfoot, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, picnic, Rab Scott, Rabbie Burns, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, sampler, Sculpture, Sheriffmuir, Sheriffmuir Inn, Shooting the Past, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Sometimes history takes things into its own hands, Spa, SPA CLEAN, Spa Town, Spa town is one of the best places to live in Britain, Stirling, Stirling Observer, Stirling University, suicide, Sunnylaw, Susan Rutherford, Ten Summers fade, The Ageing Stone, The Altar of COSTA, The Antiquary, The blossomest blossom:, The brig that spans the Wharry, The Flight of the Heron, the million-petalled flower of being here, The owl parliament, the owl parliament of Scotland, The passing bell, The Rebel Antiquary, The Welsh Trust, The Wharry, The world's Best, there was an insistent present tenseness, time passes listen, two shadows in conversation, tyranny of the quantifiable, Ursine physiology, Victorian, Wallace Monument, Wally Mint, Wally Mint and the Wobblisks, Well House, wells, Westerton Drive, Wharry Glen, William Stirling-Maxwell, William Wallace, You think so much of yoursel

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 26, 2020

Dunblane Cathedral reopens

During the lockdown I regularly walked the Darn road, by the Allan Water, to Dunblane. What follows is based on exploring ‘the local’ as widely as I could! A garden … Continue reading Dunblane Cathedral reopens

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, History of medicine, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 27 High Street, A garden aabove High Street, Allan Water, Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid19, Darn walk, Dunblane, Dunblane Cathedral, Dunblane Chemist, Glassingall, Glassingall gardener, Hole Ousia, Keir gardens, Lockdown, Mossgrove, murder, Notes from Here and There, Omphalos, Omphalos films, pandemic, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, social distance, social distancing, Social maverick, The Antiquary, the auld gardener, The Captain of Wanderwrang, The old gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, three moustache tree, Tragic End, Wanderwrang, Wife of Otto, Your imagination doesn't need to be in lockdown

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020

Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg died on 10th September 2020. A special women with such talent and style. She will be missed by so many. Diana Rigg was married to Archibald Stirling of … Continue reading Diana Rigg

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2020, A smothering lack of focus, Allan Water, Archibald Stirling, Archie Stirling, Bridge of Allan, churchyard, Dame Diana, David Stirling, Diana Rigg, Elbow, Emma Peel, Game of Thrones, Gang Forward, Guy Garvey, Hannah Ann Stirling, Hannah Stirling, Hole Ousia, In the beginning, King's village found, Lecropt, Little Sparta, non est mortale quod opto, old Lecropt, Omphalos, Omphalos films, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Rachael Atlanta Stirling, Rachael Stirling, remote yet near, Row hill, SAS, September 2020, statue, Stirling, Stirling Observer, Stirlings of Keir, Ten Summers fade, The Antiquary, The Avengers, The Rebel Antiquary, Uni tributes to former Chancellor Dame Diana, University of Stirling, William Stirling-Maxwell

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 4, 2020

A most ancient place

I have recently come across this account of the ancient history of Drumdruills, which in my grandfather’s time was a fruit orchard. The etymology of Drumdruills is still being revealed, … Continue reading A most ancient place

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