Cultural traditions – Page 6

Barrowsgate is invited to the opening of a Public Bathhouse. Note: This was republished in 1950 in the Huntly Express and was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1958.

An Echo of Muckle Friday

Jun 8, 1934

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

Two of Barrowsgate’s newspaper colleagues decide to go to Muckle Fair in Aberdeen, pretending to be Buchan farm labourers looking for work. “Muckle Friday” was originally held in medieval times at the festival of Michaelmas on 29 September when the produce of the harvest would be sold in the stalls of the markets, and labourers…

Roups

Jun 1, 1934

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

Barrowsgate explains auctions and auctioneers.

The Maister

Apr 1, 1934

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in Other verse, Verse, Writings

Barrowsgate remembers his old schoolteacher with affection. Published in the London Scottish Regimental Gazette. This previously appeared in the Bon Accord on 04 August 1933 as “Oor Dominie”

The Kilt

Mar 1, 1934

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in Other verse, Verse, Writings

In praise of highland dress. Published in the London Scottish Regimental Gazette.

The Kilt

Feb 2, 1934

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in Bitties Fae Barrowsgate, Observations, Writings

It seems slightly odd that this Bittie starts in English then switches to Doric after a paragraph. The verse at the end was also published separately the following month.

Nane ither

Jan 19, 1934

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in Other verse, Verse, Writings

A verse in praise of Rabbie Burns, dated 1951, but originally written for a “Bittie” in 1934.

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