Additionally, a poem called “Maid of Longbar” by Hugh L. Paterson – if you know this place now, you would know how ridiculous a poem about the place sounds.
Other names include: Miss Shaw, Miss Provan, Williamson, Warnock, Hubner, Hamilton, Gordon, Breckenridge, Sharp, Kerr, Anderson, Abernethy.
A Steel work Employee who came from Linwood.
Other Names in this page:
West, Busby, Calder, Ferguson, McGhie, Aitken, Stewart, Drysdale, McBride, Graham, Clifford, Baxter, Clark, Vann, Kean, McBride, Anderson, Henderson, Martin, Robertson, Watson,
Picture of Leslie Martin, Miss H H Barclay, E C Stuart, W H Aiton.
Other names, McMinn
Leslie P Martin, HH Barclay, EC Stuart, WH Aiton.
There were a few people with the name Ronald McTaggart around Kilbirnie in 1922 – I´m unclear which one he is.
Other names:
David M Parker, (emigrated to the USA)
A. Roddie
Jack Bray
J. McIvor
D. Clifford
W. Welsh
D McKie
An insight with a photo of a young man Terence McCabe and his trip to France. I only have the first page – if you need the second one, write to me.
Profile on James McGinley, moved to Glengarnock from Coatbridge. on 2 pages.
Surnames: Henderson, Hynd, Martin, Aiton, McGinley, Anderson, Morrison, Barclay, Dumphy, Richardson, Connell, Busby, McBride, Robertson, Wood, Ramsay, Stewart, McBlane, Baxter, Reid, Clifford, Vann. (Please check for further names)
Poem by George Robertson, Glengarnock, 1922
Biography of Robert Ferguson
Lots of names in these ones, I cant write all of them:
AH Graham, JH Hill, A. McDowall,
As we know, all good movements cannot simply be literal with facts and figures, we need a myth or a tale to reflect on what is happening to us. The Story of Scotland is no exception.
Daily we see words cast around between Westminster and Holyrood about facts figures, some hopeful others not. We seem to have lost the ability to tell our story in a wider way, a way which explains what is happening in the lives of the people. Today people laugh at stories but acknowledge there is power to change hearts and minds.
In Dublin, they used a statue representing the Children of Lir – an old Irish story of Children turned to swans by a wicked old witch and subsequently a poem was written to accompany this statue in the Garden of Remembrance by Parnell Square:
“We Saw A Vision”
In the darkness of despair we saw a vision,
We lit the light of hope and it was not extinguished.
In the desert of discouragement we saw a vision.
We planted the tree of valour and it blossomed.
In the winter of bondage we saw a vision.
We melted the snow of lethargy and the river of resurrection flowed from it.
We sent our vision aswim like a swan on the river. The vision became a reality.
Winter became summer. Bondage became freedom and this we left to you as your inheritance.
O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision
It got me thinking if the Scottish Parliament will ever embrace our story, what that would look like and what Myth from our past will we connect with. Perhaps Robert The Bruce and the Spider or the Nine Maidens of Dundee who were all martyred by an evil dragon and finally slain by the hero “Martin”. (The dragon of course being Westminster)
It is sad that Religion has tried to stamp out mythology with a rather fierce literal interpretation of the Bible in the North and West of the Country. I rather fear that Art itself is something Scotland has yet to become once again comfortable with.
After years of grey buildings, designed to dampen our senses. I sincerely hope they find their way with a narrative, if Jews and Black People can adopt “Let my People Go” as a song (originally from the Bible Exodus 5:1) then surely so can we.
Or perhaps its time for a new myth, one that we can write to explain all that happened in the run up to our “freedom”.
Page 1 – A tribute to Alexander McInnes
Other names: William Brown
Page 2: Alex McInnes, Peggy Law, Jas. Gibson, poem by P. Milligan “Where Garnock Flows”
Page 3: Robertson, Marshall, Reekie, Clifford, Glen, Gilmour, McMurray, Knox, Logan, Higgins, Ramsay, Aitken, MacBride, Robertson.
Text of Page 1
Colville’s Magazine – Glengarnock Gleanings (January 1925)
We take great pleasure in presenting the portrait of Mr. Alexander Campbell, though it is with regret that we announce his departure from our midst. Mr. Campbell left for Wellington, New Zealand, on the 12th of February.
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