Saw swallows at Nisbet Bridge
Fished today which I have not for at least 2 if not 3 years. John Bell, Mill Street1, has often spoken of a day in Teviot so we got it fixed for today. Motored him to Jedburgh leaving at 9.30. There at his daughter Mrs Ingles’ he got his fishing gear2 + we went to Nisbet Bridge3 + fished above + below till 4 with an interval for lunch. It was a fine day but the E. wind was strong + cold + there was no rise on. I got 4 (in grayling) + Bell got 6 trout + grayling. I enjoyed the outing + found Teviot a finer water than I thought. Got home at 5.30. Saw Mrs Mack4 some of the take, John Bell having given me his.
1 John Bell, woollen warper for Gardiner & Sons, widowed, lived at Mill Street, Selkirk, with his son George Buller Bell (1900-) and daughters Ann ‘Annie’ Bell (1896-) and Agnes Bell (other children must have left home by 1921). His wife Agnes Bell née Bell died in 1914 [sources: 1921 Census and Statutory BMDs].
2 Jane Bell, another daughter of John Bell and Agnes Bell née Bell, had married Walter Ingles, journeyman baker, 10 August 1906 at Mill Street, Selkirk. By 1921 they were living at Duck Row, Jedburgh with three daughters.
3 Nisbet Bridge, Crailing, Roxburghshire, grid reference NGR NT67480,25436 is immediately south east of Nisbet Station, see Ordnance Survey 25 inch Roxburghshire Sheet nXIII.8, published 1921.
4 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk.
[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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