Although the wind was still N.N.W. it was much milder + the snow was entirely gone. I cycled in the forenoon to Heatherlie Hill (Pollok1), Green Terrace, Bridge Street, Bridgelands + Hospital. At 2.40 along with 7 of the S.C.C.2 (4 ladies, Kemp, Bryson, Anderson, Thorpe + 3 men, …, Rodger + [blank space]) I walked via Gala Rigg, Jerusalem3 + Friarshaw to Lilliesleaf. Except for the wind it was a delightful walk + we had tea at the Cross Keys.4 I called for W. Law.5 It was a lovely moon-light night as we came back via Greenhill reaching home at 8.30. It was most enjoyable though I was pretty stiff at the end. I had my heavy shoes which weigh 3½ lbs [pounds].
1 John Pollok (1858-1938), sometime Town Clerk and Procurator Fiscal, recorded as tenant occupier at Heatherlie Hill, 1921 to 1925 Valuation Rolls.
2 Assume Selkirk Cycling Club.
3 Jerusalem Heights aka Jerusalem Height aka Sprot’s Bonnet, north east of Friarshawmuir above the 270m Contour Line at the covert now known (and shown on Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger) as Sprot’s Bonnet. Sources include oral testimony from Walter Elliot and Mrs Wilma Gunn, who recalls that her father, a driver, who always referred to the road into Whitmuirhall as “the road to Jerusalem”. See also Ordnance Survey six inch Roxburghshire Sheet XIII, surveyed 1858-9, published 1863.
4 The Cross Keys was open in Lilliesleaf until relatively recently.
5 William Law (1854-1926), retired postmaster, recorded at Eastville, Lilliesleaf, 1923 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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