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About 70 members of Stirling Observer staff climbed aboard 39-seater `Bluebird’ coaches in July 1939 for the annual firm’s outing.

The employees stopped for coffee at the Bein Hotel, Glenfarg, before heading to Perth and on to their destination, Arbroath.

Staff also visited the town’s `magnificent open air bathing pool’ and ancient abbey .

They were also given an insight into the preparation of the coastal town’s famous delicacy the “smokie”.

And they visited a restaurant where, according to the paper, `the food not merely abolishes hunger but permeates the mind and body with sweet content’.

Staff lunched at Cafe Moderne and at tea welcomed as guests by the town clerk of Arbroath, Mr Robert Finlayson, a Stirling man, and Mr William Robertson, a former employee of the Observer who had moved to the Arbroath Herald.

As the day ended editor Tom Corrie expressed, on behalf of staff, `their indebtedness to Mr John J Munro, the firm’s managing director, for granting them a day off work and also for the handsome donation which enabled the younger members of staff to go on the outing at the reduced fare.’