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Photographs from the fire at Rays Avantiplus 545 High Street Preston on Thursday 23rd Janurary 2015.
Photographs from the fire at Rays Avantiplus 545 High Street Preston on Thursday 23rd Janurary 2015.
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life can change. While waiting for the results of the second set of films I was bored and snapped the photo of the mammogram machine. After hearing and not being able to recall the words of the doctor who came down to talk to me I returned home and found a magnolia blossom had opened since I left. It reminded me of all the steel magnolias in my life. And it reminded me of referring to myself earlier in the year as a 'steel magnolia in training'. I refuse to become really concerned until I get more data from the surgeon but I really hope this steel magnolia in training does not have yet another chapter to add to this crazy badly-scripted South American soap opera kind of life I've been living for over two years now!
Dr Adam Watson in his book "Place names of much of North East Scotland" offers two derivations for Clintlaw, in Gaelic, Claointe-lach - sloping place or in Scots, Clint – a ledge and Law being a small hill. The farm sat on a ledge above the burn on the lower slopes of the law of Little Ley, both name theories fit well.
The farm was bulldozed and committed beneath the waves after the Dundee Corporation Waterworks initiated the damming of the Back Water glen in 1964 to supply Dundee, Coupar Angus, Blairgowrie and the Carse of Gowrie with drinking water – combined with the smaller reservoir of Lintrathen, enough to supply 300,000 people.
The reservoir’s 25 million cubic metres of water flooded most of the Back Water farms, Macritch, Mid and Over Scithie, Todholes and Clintlaw. Coreffie was also demolished to the west of the reservoir.
Sequential Ordnance Survey maps from 1860 show and date the growth of the Clintlaw farmstead, narrowing the stones placement to the original farmhouse or its U-shaped farmstead.
The 1-foot square date stone carries a very prominent mason’s mark, suggesting it was more likely to have adorned the u-shaped courtyard buildings typical of the industrial revolution in the 19thC. This stone marked more than a smart courtyard, it marked the transition to a modern farmstead with a separate dwelling house from a thatched, cruck framed building housing both the inhabitants and livestock divided by a slatted wooden “middle wall”, this mason’s work was lifechanging for the inhabitants.
The bulldozed ruins can be seen across a wide area when the reservoir is depleted and in parts they form an unstable slope into the reservoir.