Gascon Ha’
11th April 2022, Peter and Sian visit the ruins of Orchard and the last remains of Gascon Hall. Perthshire Courier, 6 July 1987: A schoolboy adventure, September 1884: Newspaper report, … Continue reading Gascon Ha’
Tag: River Earn
An End of Waiting
On Monday, Sian joined me on a walk in Strathearn along the River Earn to the long abandoned farm of Orchard. The poem [above] is the closing stanza of ‘An … Continue reading An End of Waiting
27 High Street, Dunblane
I rise very early, and on Monday I went for a local walk along the Allan Water to Dunblane. It was a little drizzly and the river was in good … Continue reading 27 High Street, Dunblane
[Writes in his notebook.]
I noted an unnamed but inhabited place marked by a dot on the first Ordnance Survey map of Strathearn. It had a wall round it and tracks to it, but … Continue reading [Writes in his notebook.]
That small space in the whole of time
On Sunday 23rd September we explored Strathearn. We were looking for Craigmill cottage, but alas we were to find that it had long since been demolished. In its place is … Continue reading That small space in the whole of time