Broad range of research

FURTHER TO the item about the publication of the late David A dams’ book, here is more information about his interesting life.

Davy Adams was brought up in Brechin and, after high school, he studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of A rt in Dundee. He worked as a draughtsman with Ferranti in Edinburgh and London and then enrolled at the new University of Stirling, from which he graduated with a MA in Scottish History.

A postgraduate year studying librarianship at Robert Gordon University in A berdeen led to him becoming an Associate of the Libraries Association.

He then worked for A ngus District Council Libraries and Museums Department and started publishing regularly on many aspects of local history.

He founded the Chanonry Press in Brechin, publishing titles encompassing the broad range of his research, including three studies of fishing villages and a series of booklets comprising collections of old photographs of Brechin.

Bothy Nichts and Days, his important and popular study of the life of farm-workers in the bothies of A ngus and the Howe o’ the Mearns, was published in 1991 and twice reprinted.

A good part of the book comprises the oral testimony of ex-bothy chiels blended into a single narrative and rendered in the local dialect, Davy’s own natural voice.