Avoided the topic

“The book Jane Liston bought was probably from one of the fund-raising jumble sales the impoverished Holy Trinity Church in Wester Hailes used to hold in the better-off areas of western Edinburgh,” writes Dr John Cameron of St Andrews.

“She is right to note how few ‘Holy Trinitys’ there are in the kirk – in fact, apart from the parish church of St Andrews, any church having that name north of the border is likely to be Episcopalian.

“Calvin, a relentless monotheist, hated ‘add-on’ dogma not found in the Bible like Tertullian’s 3rd Century construct which smacked of the Trinitarianism of Egypt, Phoenicia, Babylonia and Assyria.

“So ministers generally avoided the topic and most churches were simply called the ‘parish kirk’ until the schisms of the Victorian era left Scotland with two or three Presbyterian churches in every town.” from the bullseye perhaps, but a close encounter nonetheless!

“I promoted the Beatles’ first concert tour of Scotland in October 1963 with Albert Bonici of Elgin. This tour included Dundee’s Caird Hall. On the supporting bill were three Scottish groups – Dundee’s Poor Souls, at that time known as the Johnny Hudson Hi Four; Aberdeen’s Tommy Dene and the Tremors; and the Caravelles from Glasgow.

“A year later, in 1964, Albert and I brought the Beatles back to Dundee, this time in conjunction with the Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, the group again provided us with another two sellout performances at the Caird Hall.

“The Hollies were not featured on either concert. I did, however, bring the Hollies to the Top Ten Club in the Dundee Palais a few months after the second Beatles concert, which is perhaps ● how Ian connects the two gigs. I also had the Hollies back in Dundee to a Caird Hall concert in summer 1965 and the house was full.”

Ian Forrester of Kirkcaldy has sent this postcard of a pantomime poster. See last paragraph.