Barrowsgate

Category: Stories

  • Aul’ Wattie

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    This is a eulogy about a real character, William Watt, who worked for many years as ostler at the Balcarres Arms Hotel. It appeared in the Bon Accord but the original handwritten version is reproduced below. Barrowsgate describes a man of good morals and integrity who loved his animals and treated everyone equally. Barrowsgate contends…

  • Canadian Emigrant 1908

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    Jim’s apparently autobiographical story “A Canadian Emigrant” was serialized and published in four parts as “A Colonist in Canada Twenty-Five Years Ago” by “Hugh James” in the Bon Accord in May and June 1934. Jim revised it and it was published again as “Call of the Golden West – Recollections of Thirty Years Ago” by…

  • Some snake

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    This is an interesting piece, published in the Mearns Leader newspaper under the name “Hugh James” (i.e. his first names reversed). Barrowsgate appears to have only used this nom de plume a couple of times in total. It is an early example of Barrowsgate’s later approach, where he recounts a story which was very likely…