Barrowsgate

Category: Verse

  • Spring

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    A poem about Spring. Published in the Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser.

  • Doric

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    A paean to the Doric – with Jean Baxter reference – which dates it to the early 1930s. Other people name-checked are William Will (from the Burns Society of London) and J M Bulloch (who wrote the Foreword to the Blethers O’ Barrowsgate). Unpublished.

  • Snowden an’ me

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    In the summer of 1931, the government had been gripped by a political and financial crisis as the value of the pound and its place on the Gold Standard came under threat. This satirical verse is about Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald asking people to trust him and Viscount Snowden, the Chancellor of the Exchequer to…

  • Hairst O’ War

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    This is one of Barrowsgate’s rare serious verses and amongst his first published works. It was originally published in May 1931 in the Mearns Leader as “Hairst o’ War”, then republished in the same newspaper in November 1931 as “1914 – Remembrance – 1918”. The image above was taken from the July 1934 edition of…