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Girgenti followed Paestum: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. DISCOVERIES at GIRGENTI: To play this short film please click here or on the image … Continue reading Girgenti: footnotes and forget-me-nots
DISCOVERIES at GIRGENTI: To play this short film please click here or on the image above.
Isabella Thomson Masters was born at 11am on the 15th August 1860 at 19 Hospital Street, Perth. Her young mother worked in a factory and could not read or write. … Continue reading From Thimble Row to Girgenti
Girgenti followed Paestum in a blue sky summer that was not little. Beneath this sky two girls sang. It was a beautiful summer.
Thesis 1389, and that of Dr Iain Smith give an account of Girgenti following the death of Captain John Cheape:
Captain John Cheape died in 1850. Unmarried and with no children, he left Girgenti to six Scottish hospitals. Girgenti was then sold and re-sold. Summer was giving way to autumn.
After serving as a Captain in the Napoleonic wars Captain John Cheape “retired” to the Girgenti of his imagination: