Barrowsgate – Page 27

Flood Waters

Feb 23, 1937

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Prompted by a recent news story about flooding in the Mississippi Valley, USA, this factual article, published in the Buchan Observer in 1937, describes the work that Barrowsgate had been involved in while in the USA. Transcription: “We, in this country, can hardly visualise the appalling spectacle of a mighty river in flood or realise…

Mistress “B” Writes and Reveals

Feb 19, 1937

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

As Barrowsgate is in bed with the flu, Mistress B takes the opportunity to set the record straight. Barrowsgate won’t be drinking from Mistress B’s secret whisky stash again …

The Tale of an Incubaker

Feb 12, 1937

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

Mistress Barrowsgate decides that they should get an uncubator, for more efficient breeding.

Pluck, Trip an’ Thairim

Feb 5, 1937

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

Barrowsgate attends his local Burns Night supper and the chairman experienced burns of a different kind.

Barrowsgate’s Fun Parade

Jan 29, 1937

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

Rob o’ Northie has to run to catch his train

The Great Controversy

Jan 22, 1937

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

Barrowsgate takes the wrong side at a debate about marriage, and then finds himself on the wrong side of Mrs B.

On Wi’ the Dance

Jan 15, 1937

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

Mrs Barrowsgate lets her hair down at the Buchan Birl.

The red-haired robber

Jan 12, 1937

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in BBC Broadcast, Stories, Writings

“The Red-haired Robber”, broadcast in January 1937 as “Here Awa’ There Awa’” on BBC Scotland, recounts a story Jim that is told by Sam Goldberg in his eponymous saloon bar in a town called Condor. Some years previously a red-haired man had robbed Goldberg’s safe and escaped on horseback over the border to Canada. Many…

Buchan’s Nicht o’ Pleesur’

Jan 8, 1937

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

Barrowsgate spends a pleasant Hogmanay at a dance in Whiteside. Context: During 1936, the UK had three kings – George V, Edward VIII and Geoge VI. The Mormond Stag is a famous local landmark.

Back to the Land

Jan 1, 1937

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in Observations, Writings

Barrowsgate sets out his manifesto on farming in Scotland. This was probably written in the mid-1930s as its essence appears in a newspaper article of 09 July 1937. In summary, he suggests that: Above all, Barrowsgate is in favour of “localism” and support for the small farm or croft, to avoid the migration of the…

Author: Barrowsgate