Seefew
A few days before Christmas I ventured to SEEFEW. I did so in remembrance of Elizabeth Hall, who died there a month short of her 16th birthday: To watch a short … Continue reading Seefew
Tag: infant mortality
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
Seefew
The Berwick Ramblers have visited Seefew many times. An old shepherd’s cottage in the Scottish Borders, it is now a roofless ruin: Berwick Advertiser, 24 October 2002: Southern Reporter, 14 … Continue reading Seefew
SPASM
I travelled the ‘Destitution Road’ to visit you: To play this short film please click here. This film is for Robert Savage Reid, who died in January 1861, in Dundonnell … Continue reading SPASM
Spasm of the heart
Dundonnell You died aged sixteen: a ‘spasm’ of the heart. Your bones in a circular place inside an ancient beech plantation. Here, adding to the melody of bird song, I … Continue reading Spasm of the heart
Holocombe’s Angels
Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer, 12 July1946:
Death on board
Let us remember little Jane Hymers. She was born on the 14th December 1856 in a remote under-keepers croft called Wag, in Latheron parish Caithness: Ordnance Survey book, 1871: That … Continue reading Death on board
Cecilia
Last week I travelled north. I did so for Cecilia. Upstairs bedroom, Upper Tullochgrue farmhouse, Rothiemurchus: February 1947, on the birth of the NHS: