Dry + coldish day with very little sunshine + sharp S.E.wind fairly strong at times. My new bike1 arrived at Stark + Murray2 with a nasty dent in the gear case + a stupid little carrier on the handle bar. Murray thinks he can do something for the former. I cycled (on B.S.A.3) to Shawpark, Ashybank, Spionkop, Faldonside + Whitmuirhall Toll.4 Sent my brown suit, Burberry + 2 hats to Turnbull to be cleaned. Helen5 cycled to see Mrs Kennedy, Melrose.6 Terrible erruption [sic] of tramps in evening.
1 Dr Muir had ordered a Singer bicycle from Stark & Murray on or after 26 February 1923, see Dr Muir’s diary entry of that date.
2 Stark & Murray of Selkirk looked after Dr Muir’s bicycles.
3 The B.S.A. was Dr Muir’s old bicycle.
4 Whitmuirhall Toll, also known as Jovial Jenny’s, grid reference NGR NT497,279 is not to be confused with Ladylands Toll, NT475,279 – both tolls are visible on Ordnance Survey Six Inch Roxburghshire, Sheet XIII (and parts of Selkirkshire Sheets XI), published 1863.
5 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
6 Mary Balfour Kennedy née Alison (1889-1978), wife of William Nicol Watson Kennedy (1888-1961), O.B.E., M.D. Edinburgh, M.R.C.P.Ed., D.P.E.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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