Barometer fell to 28 – 35 [?]1 + remained there all day. There were showers with some blinks of sun between. Motored to Mit Mrs Mitchell, Rosemount2, Middlestead (Brockie3), Heather Mill, Dunsdale + Curror Street. Went to Clark the dentist4 at 12 + got cast taken for a new lower denture. The process was very painful. After lunch made some notes for the interview with Sir Thomas Henderson5 on Wednesday. Had to go down to Mill Street at 4 to see a man Sharp6 who had fallen at Linglie Mill+ sprained his ankle.
1 The Editor does not recognise the numbers or the notation here.
2 Mrs Mitchell is unidentified.
3 John Brockie, shepherd, was Inhabitant Occupier of a house at Middlestead, Selkirk [1923 Valuation Rolls VR011700009-/431, Selkirk County, page 431 of 605].
4 Thomas Raeburn ‘T Raeburn’ Clark (1879-1943), dental surgeon, at 8 The Green, Selkirk, and of Ettrickbridge, 1920 Valuation Roll; married to Isabella Watson, he died, 9 July 1943, aged 63, at 153 Morningside Drive, Edinburgh, usual residence Elburn, Ettrickbridge.
5 Sir Thomas Henderson (1874-1951), woollen manufacturer and Liberal Party. politician. He was a director of Messrs Innes, Henderson and Co. Ltd., hosiery manufacturers of Hawick, and briefly served as Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire (1922-1923).
6 John Sharp (about 1872-), powerloom weaver, born Crieff, Perthshire, living at 35 Mill Street, Selkirk and working for Edward Gardiner & Sons woollen manufacturer, Linglie Mill, Level Crossing Road, Selkirk [1921 Census].
[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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