Another dry cold grey dull day but roads improving. Cycled in town, Hospital Broadmeadows, Newarkburn, Bowhill + after lunch to Newhouse. Roads pretty stiff about Clarklands.1 Got wire after dinner to go to Gilmanscleuch to see a tramp. Baptie2 drove me down with Macaulay.3 The tramp was lying in the Elliots’ byre at Ladyside.4 There was very little wrong with him. Got back at 12.
1 Clerklands, on the road to Riddell and Lilliesleaf, grid reference NGR NT503,246 and Newhouse, S.S.E. of Riddell, grid reference NT522,235.
2 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
3 Macaulay was one of Dr Muir’s horses, see also diary entries for 9th, 12th, 29th January and 2nd and 22nd February.
4 Ladyside School, Kirkhope, was at approximate grid reference NT333,211 and is shown on Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire XIV, published 1863.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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