Barrowsgate explains what it means to be a baillie or gentleman and the subtle differences between them.
For context, a bailie or baillie was a civic officer in the local government of Scotland and was a post similar to that of an alderman or magistrate.
Note: This article appeared again in the “Observations of Jeems” column in the Huntly Express newspaper in 1950. An English version was published in the Buchan Observer on 16 February 1937.
