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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 6, 2020November 6, 2020

Windfall Cooking Apples

We have several old apple trees in our garden. At harvest time, Sian shares as many apples from these trees as she can. This year Sian has also provided hand … Continue reading Windfall Cooking Apples

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2020, Andrew Robert Gordon, apple trees, apples, Bridge of Allan, cooking apples, Covid-19, Covid19, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, garden, Hole Ousia, Mossgrove, orchard, Peter Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Scotland, sharing, Sian Fiona Williams, windfall, windfall cooking apples

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 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

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1210, Allan Water, Antiquary, Bishop of Dunblane, blossom, blossomest blossom, Bridge of Allan, Carluke, Cox burn, Drumdowlis, Drumdroulls, Drumdrouls, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Drumendufleis, Dunblane, Hole Ousia, Lindores, Macbeth Rex, Mossgrove, Muthill, Omphalos, Omphalos films, orchard, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, plums, R and W Scott, Rab Scott, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, Stevenson's cave, Sweet peas, T Brough, The Antiquary, The brig that spans the Wharry, The Rebel Antiquary, Wharrie, Wharry

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 3, 2020September 3, 2020

BE BRIEF

This frontpage advert featured in several Scottish newspapers in June 1943. This was during WWII and in the very month that my mother was born here in Bridge of Allan. … Continue reading BE BRIEF

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, BE BRIEF, Brideg of Allan, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Hole Ousia, Margaret Mary Scott, Margaret Scott, Mossgrove, mother, mum, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Rab Scott, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, selfless, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, wonder, World War II, WWII

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