Barrowsgate – Page 27

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…

Still Mair Win’

Dec 31, 1936

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

It’s windy again in Buchan and, this time, Westie gets buried underneath a haystack.

Author: Barrowsgate