Strange to say although the Barometer rose only 0.12 i.e. 28.22, it was a fine sunny day with just a very slight shower + there was slight hoar frost. I walked to Clark’s + got my another the cast fitted1: then to Mill Street, Dunsdale and Goslaw Green. Motored to Hawick + along with Fleming2 + Davidson of Kelso3: Tyrell, Gala4 + Barrie, Hawick5 interviewed Sir Thomas Henderson6 at his office. Brought Tyrell back in the car to get train to Galashiels.7 Got B.A.U. Dividend of £33 – 3 – 8 being balance Dividend from year ended 30/6/23.
1 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.
2 Alexander Dickson Fleming (1865-1955), M.B., Ch.B. (Edin.), medical practitioner, physician at Kelso Dispensary and Medical Officer to Kelso Union.
3 Samuel Davidson (1871-1958), M.D., medical practitioner at Kelso.
4 Edward Munro Tyrrell (1863-1940), M.B., C.M., medical practitioner, born India, of Wellwood, Galashiels in 1923 [UK and Ireland, Medical Register, 1923].
5 William Turnbull Barrie (1859-1935), M.B., C.M., medical practitioner, born Castleton, Roxburghshire, of Bridge Street, Hawick in 1923 [UK and Ireland, Medical Register, 1923].
6 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).
7 This is not as illogical as it seems. The Selkirk – Galashiels train was very direct compared with its Hawick – Galashiels counterpart which swung eastwards through St Boswells and Melrose before reaching Gala.
[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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