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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-03-28, Page 3Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, March 28, 190 � Page :3 .:*. .. ., ti logo... '' o ,� , :* +'` ..irk..- `',• ••9, t • M* , Y Pf, r. tic .5•14': *4 . �• t• 1401* • 4 a .4 ade 14-.44 • a -• y K< ice pack between McKenzie Bridge and Howson dam on Wednesday afternoon. can see the granite sticking out. We arrived at Edinburgh at 1:30 and booked in at the Gros- vernor Hotel. This is a beauti- ful city, and reminds us very much of Quebec City. We took Pat to see Edinburgh Castle and Ilolyrood House. You drive up to the castle on a very steep in- cline of cobble stone surface. At the entrance Scottish guards direct you to the place where you buy your tickets. The whole structure is built of granite blocks. This is just a museum and a war memorial. A lot of old relics are here and memories of ancient Scottish monarchy. From there we drove straight east to Ilolyrood !louse, not far from the Castle and still in the city of Edinburgh. This is where the Queen and the Duke do their entertaining when they conte to Scotland. They have had as tnany 7000 guests at their garden parties. They showed us all through the place. Although the living room, the beautiful old halls, the paintings as old as 706 are very interesting, it seems to me an odd place to live in. I hope that the quarters that they occupy thetnsc1 es are more homelike and comfortable. I suppose the places that we see are more like conference rooms to receive visitors than any- thing else. The food generally is very good, but 1 wish some of the Scottish cooks would go over to the States or Canada and learn to make some decent salads. People cat a lot of swectstuffs here with their tea. In restaurants they serve tea in the afternoon. They place a rack with a dozen cakes and tarts, etc., on the table and after you get through with your tea, they ask you how many cakes you ate. They charge you six pennies each, besides your tea. Tuesday morning we set out for Perth and the Scotch cup games. We checked in at the Salutation hotel, supposed to be the oldest operating hotel its Scotland. The opening of the Scotch games was on Wednesday morn ing at 9 o'clock. We went early to make sure of a good seat. Admission was free and we were told as we entered the rink that a special section had been reserved for the visi- tors, We had excellent seats all through the games. This is a very nice rink with eight sheets of ice. The rink was decorated, welcoming the American, Canadian, Swedish and the Scotch curlers. This arena had a restaurant and bar so we didn't have to go far be - Cutters Visit Herb Uolson's Sister, Attend "Scotch tup" Games at Berth Edinburgh, Scotland Well boys here we are again. Weare quite comfortable at the hotel in Paisley. We were over to Bridge of Weir a small burgh about 15 miles from .aisley,. Very nice little place on the hanks of the Weir. It is quite hilly here and fairly good farthing country surrounds the taws. We visited with Crawford Miller here, but as I told you, the water main had frozen so I helped him to get a couple of cans of water from the neigh- bours, Although central heat- ing is becoming more prevalent' Crawford still has fireplaces in each room. As far as we arc concerned, this is pretty un- comfortable. I don't think its because they can't afford to put in central heating but people are so conservative and just hate to make a change. The people are good hearted and very friendly. When you are out shopping they certainly don't force anything onto you. Paisley and Glasgow are very busy factory towns and the building going on here is tre- mendous. The thread mills employ about 4000 girls. The shopping for ladies' goods is terrific here. Every other store is a shoe or ladies' wear store. Paisley is a very old city of 90,000 people. I was talking to some people and told thein about Paisley in Canada and said that they have a population of 800. They said, "Remember this, we started in the year 1100 so they have a bit of time to catch up." We usually drove home with Crawford and took the comrnu- tor train back to Paisley. It was only minutes with the train. Monday I went over to hertz to rent a car, They only had one car, a Consul, but it was in pretty good order. I was a bit concerned about driving on the left hand side of the road, 'ws soon as I got the car out, ent out to do some practis- ing. Fortunately I was on the outskirts of the town. For the first few blocks, 1 kept on turn- ing left, so that I didn't have to cross the street, but it wasn't until I got used to it and Look a chance on crossing the street. I drove hack to the hotel, picked up Jean and Pat and we were away to Loch Lo- mond. The weather had warmed up quite a bit and the sun started to come out. We crossed the Clyde with the ferry at Erskine. The roads are narrow all the way, although they are very good, hard surface roads. Al- though the lake was still cover- ed with ice, the snow along the road was pretty well gone. The countryside is very pretty (very bonny as the Scotch say). Of course the names around here are very familiar, McIntyre, Forrester, McDougall, White, McDonald and lots of others. The roads twist and turn all along the lake through mountains and hillsides, mostly covered with bush along the shore. We drove in a north westerly direction until we came to Killen, and turned south into real sheep country. There was quite a bit of snow along the road here and we were told that it blew so touch in Decem- her, that in one valley a little further south, trees 30 feet high were almost covered up by drifting snow. We stayed at the Ancaster Arms, at Callander, had our breakfast and on to the Tros- sachs. This is an area of lakes and mountains. It is very beautiful and must be a picture in the summer. About half way down the lakes we came to the Trossachs trawl, a great mon- ster of a hotel facing the lake. We came to a sharp hairpin turn in the road and were then on the other side of the lake. We drove hack to Glasgow. Glasgow, itself isn't particu- larly interesting. We visited people in one of the outskirts, then went on to Carlisle, on the main road to London. There is a lot of work being done and a lot of it has agood two lane highway. We stayed in Carlisle over- night and in the morning went on to Langham to visit ilerb llotson's sister and her husband. They have a boy ; years. Lang - ham is situated in hills and the sheep country. There are five woollen mills here in Langham and the finest worsted in Great 13ritain is woven here. We visited one of the mills; a very fine operation. The river Esk runs through the town, famous for salmon fishing. However it had rained for a few days so the water was pretty high and dirty and not fit to fish in. Not far frotn Longhorn is the old stronghold of Johnny Am strong of the days of the board- er raids with the English. Ile was hanged by the British. M one time most of the land between Edinburgh, and Carlisle was owned by the Duke of Buccluech, including all the villages. In later years, this village and the houses were sold hack to the people, but he still owns thousands of acres of land which he rents to the farmers in the area. Ile stocks the land with pheasant and you see them along the road and around the bush and hill country almost every day, We visited with the Brebners for three days, Mr, Brebner took us around and showed us the countryside. We visited the fatuous village and Black- smith Shop of Gretna Green, where in the early days mar- riages were performed over the anvil. Marriages could be per- formed by anyone, with the proper witnesses. The law only held good in that village, of course. They married many elopements because they could marry there at the age of 16 without the parents' consent. The age set for the most of England and Scotland is 21 and in Holland it is 32, so quite a number even came over from the continent. Since that they have changed the law somewhat. You have to be a resident of the village for 15 days, and the marrying is done by the sherriff. Con- sequently a good motel and a series of smaller hotels and restaurants have sprung up. The old Blacksmith Shop is still there and full of articles of the old days. From Langham we drove to Edinburgh. Just on the outskirts of Langham, you get into some real hills, covered with heather and grass. 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We stet many Canadians from Toronto, Stay- ner, Creemore, from Western Canada and many from tiro States. It's no use telling you about the results, you know them by now. We had a great visit here I got (told of the engineer and he showed me the ice making equiprii tit. 1 found he was a great fisherman. The River Tay runs through here and after a bit of talking he took roc fishing on Friday morning. tin - fortunately the water was high and you couldn't get near the hanks. Ile gave me a beauti- ful" casting rod and reel with a 12 pound test line to use. I casted for about an hour and a half wherever I could get near the river. Of course I didn't catch any salmon. Back to Paisley and Sunday on to London. 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