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By Hole Ousia Posted on April 17, 2021

Polmaise Castle Garden

It was lovely to read about this community effort in Polmaise Castle Gardens [Stirling Observer, 31 March 2021]. A few years ago I made this film about the sad fate … Continue reading Polmaise Castle Garden

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Voluntary workTags: 18, 65, a modern ruin, Antiquary, blown-up, Cambusbarron, collapsed doorway, Demolished, Digging into the past, Dr Murray Cook, Gillies Hill, grave, Hole Ousia, Ian Collins, is it time itself that we mourn, Modern Ruin, Murray family, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Peter J Gordon, Polmaise castle, rebel antiquary, rubble, ruin, ruins, Social maverick, St Peter's Seminary, Stirling, Stirling Observer, Team are bringing beauty back to spot, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, WWI

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 21, 2020

Dare to be Wise

Malcolm Allan of Coneyhill, Bridge of Allan.

Categories: Bridge of Allan, This is Not yesterdayTags: Alastair Macneill, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - a history, Bridge of Allan bids a farewell to a wise town stalwart, Coneyhill house, Craig Mair, Dare to be wise, Dr W H Welsh Trust, Dr Welsh Trust, Farewell, flying now, Henderson Street, Hole Ousia, Hydropathic, Ian McLaren, Librarian, Malcolm Allan, Mossgrove, obituary, Omphalos, Omphalos films, owl, owl Man, owls, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Revolutionary time, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Spa Town, Spa town is one of the best places to live in Britain, Stirling Archives, Stirling Observer, The Antiquary, The owl man, The owl parliament, the owl parliament of Scotland, The Rebel Antiquary, The Welsh Trust, The Welsh Trust lecture, Tribute

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 21, 2020

Farewell

Stirling Observer, Wednesday, 21st October 2020:

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Alastair Macneill, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, Bridge of Allan - a history, Bridge of Allan bids a farewell to a wise town stalwart, Coneyhill house, Craig Mair, Dare to be wise, Dr W H Welsh Trust, Dr Welsh Trust, Farewell, flying now, Henderson Street, Hole Ousia, Hydropathic, Ian McLaren, Librarian, Malcolm Allan, Mossgrove, obituary, Omphalos, Omphalos films, owl, owl Man, owls, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Revolutionary time, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Spa Town, Spa town is one of the best places to live in Britain, Stirling Archives, Stirling Observer, The Antiquary, The owl man, The owl parliament, the owl parliament of Scotland, The Rebel Antiquary, The Welsh Trust, The Welsh Trust lecture, Tribute

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

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