Still showery but with fairer intervals. I took Angus + Gerty1 in Bryson’s Dodge2 to Bowden Toll, Melrose, St Boswells, Mainberry, Smailholm, Dryburgh + Bemersyde Hill.3 The views were fairly good but there were rain clouds round about although we got very little. We got back to lunch + the Gillans left shortly after. They go back to Sudan in October. We looked in at Wellwood4 on the way back.
1 Margaret Douglas ‘Gerty’ Ord Mackenzie (1891-1973), daughter of Montague Allan Ord Mackenzie and Frances Gordon ‘Fanny’ Ord Mackenzie née Rennie, had married James ‘Angus’ Gillan (1885–1981), twice Olympic gold medal rower and colonial administrator on 28 August 1917 at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton. Later Sir Angus Gillan, K.B.E., C.M.G., his papers are in the Bodleian Libary, Oxford.
2 Bryson had a motor business in Selkirk.
3 The party has done a little loop beyond Bemersyde Hill and Scott’s View, grid reference NGR NT597,343, to the area of Mainberry, NT666,356, and Smailholm, NT647,363, fairly close to the Berwickshire Border.
4 Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, home of Dr Muir’s daughter Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948) and her husband John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner.
[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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