The last post I wrote about fairs and markets in this blog largely focussed on those which happened in Brechin . This one gives a little su...

    The Playfair family comes from the small, tucked away corner of Angus nestled between Dundee and the Carse of Gowrie region of Perthshi...

 Too few people know about the life and work of Peter F. Anson (1889-1975) . He was a man of many parts, and his biography has a description...

   It is surprising how stories of the same old ghosts are doomed to haunt the pages of anthologies about haunted places, and this seems to ...

 There are some subjects which I keep coming back to repeatedly, albeit with large gaps in time between each article. Notable among these ar...