Gilbert Holiday
Lately, when researching a forgotten but once champion billiard player, I came across the art work of Gilbert Holiday [1879-1937]. Here are some of his works:
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Granville Lowe Paterson
A short film aboot Granville Lowe Paterson [1921-2004] fae Balnarge, Glenglass. He was a weel kent Inverness ‘worthy’. To play this film please click here or on the image above. … Continue reading Granville Lowe Paterson
brilliance + humanity
Tom Stoppard [1937-2025]
NEW MARKET STREET
This is a very sad story involving the Bishop family of 25 Glebe Street, Falkirk. It involves the death of a child so please do not read further if this … Continue reading NEW MARKET STREET
A mania for collecting tools
I came across this report in the Scotsman of 4 May 1927: In doing some further research I established that Reginald Porteous died of pneumonia in Edinburgh’s City Hospital in … Continue reading A mania for collecting tools
Baroness Dombrowski
Baroness Dombrowski [1881-1968], Austrian writer and illustrator, has been largely forgotten. During her career she used multiple names: Kathe Schonberger, Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger, Katharina von Dombrowski, Baroness von Dombrowski, and the … Continue reading Baroness Dombrowski
Mrs Hippo Pops into the Pool!
First published in The SKETCH, 2 August 1933, by Baroness K.O. S. Dombrowski
A friend to friendship itself: Davie Glen
David Rioch Glen, 1909-1978. Sadly, I never met Davie [Davy] Glen but I heard some wonderful tales about him when I was researching the history of Jock’s Road, Glen Doll. … Continue reading A friend to friendship itself: Davie Glen