The Strathblane notebook : life in a Stirlingshire village before the First World War
Urquart, Alex
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After the closure of Blanefield's calico printworks in1898, the Blane Valley emerged as a popular destination for holiday makers and day trippers. In the era before colour photography, Strathbalne and the Campsie Fells became a popular subject for the hand-tinted postcards. Many of these, depicting well-known local landmarks such as the Gowk Stane, Ballagan Spout, Drumgoyne and the Blane Water, are now collectors' items. The same places feature in extraordinary memoir of life in Strathblane before the First World War. Alex Urquhart was ten years old when his family rented an upper flat in Dumbrock Road. Fondly looking back on a childhood of poaching, picnics and pranks with boys who would perish in the war, Alex came to see it as a golden age that had disappeared forever by 1918. This book brings these two sources together to recreate for the first time a very special time and place.
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Strathblane Heritage Society: 2021
Dewey class:
940.46
Language:
English
BRN:
3512892