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By: Kate Davies Designs July 30, 2020July 30, 2020

landscape, People MAKE Glasgow, Scotland, walkingcarbeth, Craigallian, Glasgow, Glasgow writers, Hugh Macdonald, Ian R Mitchell, Pillar Craig, Rambles Round Glasgow, Strathblane, walking, working class writers21 Comments

I’ve been reading a lot of books while researching People Make Glasgow, and one of my favourite recent reads is Ian R Mitchell’s This City Now (reissued as Walking through Glasgow’s Industrial Past in 2015) which offers a brilliant walker’s guide to the city’s industrial history. The book mentions one of Mitchell’s peripatetic-literary Glasgow forbears…

By: Kate Davies Designs January 10, 2018January 10, 2018

West Highland WayCraigallian, Craigallian hat, knitting, landscape, West Highland Way, West Highland Way Club22 Comments

The West Highland Way club has begun! . . . and the first club patterns to be released are the Craigallian mittens and hat. These patterns commemorate the “fire that never went out”, once located near Craigallian Loch at the beginning of the West Highland Way, whose beacon burned throughout the year, whatever the weather.…