Election Day
Back to frost – a cloudless calm dry day + roads in places like glass. My cold a shade better but still very troublesome. Had breakfast in bed. Took the car to Beechwood, Bridge Street + back to Knowepark School1 where I voted for Dalkeith.2 Then I went to Midlem Old Manse + was called in to see Barb. Turnbull3 + Jo. Black The Toll.4. Great deal of motor traffic going + coming to the polling booth.
1 Knowepark Public School, Selkirk, known as Chapel Street Public School until 1882.
2 In the December 1923 General Election Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch from 1935 but at this time Earl of Dalkeith, took Sir Thomas Henderson’s parliamentary seat for Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire on 6 December 1923 with 11,258 votes (43.1%).
3 Barbara Turnbull is as yet unidentified.
4 John Black (about 1859-), gamekeeper, inhabitant occupier not rated at Whitmuirhall Old Tollhouse, Selkirk [1921 Valuation, VR011700009-/333, Selkirk County, page 333 of 611]. He had married, 1888, Selkirk, Jessie Black née Cochrane and they lived at Whitmuir Toll with their daughters Agnes and Kate [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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