The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Craigie Unfortunate duke
Gabriel’s lights
Further to his item about the football match and the Shankly brothers, Ken Abbot says: “As a footnote, Jimmy Gabriel, if memory serves me correctly, was Doug Cowie’s successor as a right half and possessed a lot of Doug’s skills.
“After the floodlights were installed, there was a saying among many, myself included, that they were Gabriel’s lights because of the transfer fee.
“Around the same time, an enclosure was constructed over the Dens RD open area and when it had concrete terracing laid it became known as Snedden’s shed thanks to Dave Snedden’s transfer fee.
“I am sure there are many supporters who would be able to add more on this subject and I look forward to reading their personal accounts.”
Made an impression
Dee Williams has been in touch and says: “I have just been reading the stories headlined ‘Six-year-old girl met Bowie outside Angus Hotel 1973’.
“Someone sent you a copy of his tickets for the David Bowie concert at the Caird Hall, Dundee, on May 17 1973. I realise these are old stories, but wanted to add my experience of that night.
“Not only did my friend and I go to the Ziggy Stardust gig (at the front) at the Caird Hall, but we also went and were introduced to Bowie afterwards at the Angus Hotel. We were 16 years old and he was fabulous and thoughtful.
“He came down especially to meet the two of us after we were talking to his assistant, despite security staff saying he wouldn’t and that we were wasting our time. He walked down the stairs and gestured to us to come over. We talked for a while, he was friendly and considerate and he signed the headed Angus Hotel writing paper attached. He made such an impression that a year later we both moved from our home in Dundee to London to work in the music business.
“It’s now 2020, and I return to Dundee often to look after my mum, but I still live in London – thanks to David Bowie.”
Innes Duffus continues his piece about the Duchess of Monmouth and says: “Anna’s mother was Lady Margaret Leslie, sister of the Duke of Rothes and then wife of David, Second Erle of Wemyss. In the diary of the latter, he relates the circumstances under which Lady Anna Scott’s marriage to the Duke of Monmouth took place:
‘On the 20th day of April 1663, this James Scotte, Duke of Monmuth, was married at Whitehall on Anna, Countas of Buccluch, who was earis to the House
In September 1988, this former Dundee street bus was in use by Tayside Regional Council Social Work Department as a foster family information bus. It was a 1976 Ailsa with an Alexander 75-seat dual-door model, which was numbered 80 in the Tayside fleet, and 107 when it passed to Travel Dundee. It was donated to the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum, but later used for spares and then scrapped. of Buccluche worth 10,000 ponds starling Zeirly. The King and the Duke of York was present att the mariadge when the Bishope of Lundon then called Sheldounne married them. I David Erle of Wemyss hed the honour to deliver hir to hir husband, Duke of Monmouth that day. The king commanded I deliver hir to him for I maried hir mother the Dauger of Buccleuch. L. M. Leslie was also present and my Lord Erle Rothes and diverse other Lords (I was as his father then). They did not stay together being young he of 13 ziers and shou of 12 ziers then in November. Thereafter, her mother left her, by the King’s directions shoe was delivered to the caire of the Countess of Marshall, doughter to Ro., Earle of Mortoune.’
“On the day of their marriage, King Charles created her husband Duke of Buccleuch, Erle of Dalkeith and Lord Scotte. This unfortunate northerner was the son of Charles II by Lucy Walters and was born at Rotterdam in 1649.
“By the will of Francis Earl of Buccleuch, he had to assume the name of Scott on his marriage. This accounts for the son of a King of Great Britain, bearing the family name of Scott.”
“His romantic career is a matter of history. He maintained that his mother had been lawfully married to Charles II. He claimed the crown on the death of his father and raised war against his uncle, James II, with the assistance of the Marquis of Argyll.
“He was defeated and taken prisoner at the Battle of Sedgemoor and was ultimately executed on July 16 1685. His own titles then became extinct, but his widow was Countess of Buccleuch in her own right and from her eldest son the present Duke of Buccleuch is lineally descended.”
You heard right
“David from Broughty Ferry heard right,” says Jim Thomson. “It is a ‘strae soo’, a large stack of the straw which had been thrashed and was used for cattle food and bedding before combines and bailers were more common.”