50 years ago

25 years ago

Grants of nearly £3m are to be given to help repair Scotland’s historic buildings, it was announced yesterday. Twenty-three buildings throughout the country are to share in the Scottish Office handout. Among the places to benefit is Abbotsford House, near Melrose, the category A-listed home of the novelist Sir Walter Scott. Around £98,000 is to be given towards stone repairs on a wing of the famous house. The Central Library on George IV Bridge in Edinburgh gets a £332,000 repair grant.

Officials of a Wolverhampton club who refused a Jamaican woman admission because of her colour broke the law, a Judge said yesterday. Judge Nicklin, at Birmingham County Court, granted the Race Relations Board a declaration that Bradmode Working Men’s Club unlawfully discriminated against Mrs Peggy Apparicio, aged 21, in barring her from a G.P.O. Christmas party in December, 1968. Mrs Apparicio, her husband and two friends were barred from the club.

100 years ago

Judgment has been given by Sheriff Moffatt in an action raised in Falkirk Sheriff Court in which John Oswald, farmer, Denny, sought warrant to eject the Larbert Co-operative Society from slaughterhouse premises in Muirhall Road, Larbert, belonging to him. Pursuer states that the slaughterhouse fell into disuse in 1916. Defenders approached him for the use of the slaughterhouse and he granted the privilege so long as the shop was unlet. In 1919 the shop was let. Sheriff Moffatt finds for pursuer.