- Person
- fl 1893
Herbert George Greig worked in sales with RR Colpitts & Son Stationers. Barbara Hall was the daughter of Herbert George Greig, the son of David Greig, who was from Arbroath but emigrated to Canada.
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- 11 November 1908-5 November 1980
David Ernest Cox, the son of James Ernest and Agnes Jane Cox, was born in Lochee. His early education was at Stanmore Park, Middlesex, from which he entered Dartmouth Naval College as a cadet in 1922. As a Sub-Lieutenant he was present at the evacuation of Nankin in 1927. He was appointed Midshipman in 1928 and while returning from China, his ship, HMS Enterprise, was joined by the Prince of Wales at Dar-es-Salaam, who was rushing home from East Africa to see the King on his sick-bed. David served as a Commander in the Royal Navy until 1947.
After 1947, Cox and his wife, Mary Aileen Musgrove with whom he had two children, Jane and Edward, lived in South Africa, Rhodesia and Malta, then settled in Guernsey in 1972
During his retirement Commander Cox sailed his boats, 'Ninga' and 'Scottish Simo' through the French canals, across the Ionian and Adriatic seas, and throughout the Mediterranean from his base in Malta.
After 1947, Cox and his wife, Mary Aileen Musgrove with whom he had two children, Jane and Edward, lived in South Africa, Rhodesia and Malta, then settled in Guernsey in 1972
During his retirement Commander Cox sailed his boats, 'Ninga' and 'Scottish Simo' through the French canals, across the Ionian and Adriatic seas, and throughout the Mediterranean from his base in Malta.
- Person
- 1907 - 2002
Dr John Berry was born in Edinburgh and educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge. After gaining a PhD at the University of St Andrews he pursued a career in zoology and biology, working for the Fishery Board of Scotland, the Biological Research Station at University College, Southampton, and the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. In the course of his work he gained an international reputation, and travelled extensively, publishing papers and articles on freshwater fisheries, hydroelectric development and ornithology. During his career he was also consultant ecologist for the Scottish Landowners' Federation, a leading member of the Scottish Marine Biology Association, the Scottish Wildlife Trust, the International Union for the Conservation of Natural Resources and the Wildfowl Research Bureau. Between 1949 and 1967 he was director of Nature Conservation in Scotland. Dr Berry also had strong links with the University of Dundee, and was awarded an honorary LL.D there in 1970, and an honorary DSc from St Andrews in 1991. Dr Berry lived at Tayfield Estate in Newport, which has been owned by the Berry family since the end of the 18th Century. He died in February 2002 at the age of 95.
Robert N. M. Robertson M.A. LL.B
- Person
- 15 March 1915-6 February 1991
Robert N. M. Robertson was born in Canada nd grew up in Rothsey. He attended Glasgow University as a law student and later served with the army in India and took part in the Normandy landing during the Second World War.
He was appointed as an administrator to the Medical School at St Andrews in 1945 and later left to become the Secretary of the University of Southampton. As the Secretary of the University of Dundee it is recognised that he played a major role in its development during the 20th century. Robertson was Secretary and Registrar of Queen's College, Dundee, and subsequently Secretary of the University of Dundee, as well as Joint Local Honorary Secretary of the British Association at the time of the 1968 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In these roles Mr. Robertson was heavily involved in the organisation and planning of the meeting.
He was appointed as an administrator to the Medical School at St Andrews in 1945 and later left to become the Secretary of the University of Southampton. As the Secretary of the University of Dundee it is recognised that he played a major role in its development during the 20th century. Robertson was Secretary and Registrar of Queen's College, Dundee, and subsequently Secretary of the University of Dundee, as well as Joint Local Honorary Secretary of the British Association at the time of the 1968 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In these roles Mr. Robertson was heavily involved in the organisation and planning of the meeting.
- Person
- 1883-1956
Doris Livingston MacKinnon ran the Zoology Department at University College, Dundee between 1917-1919 following D'Arcy Thompson's departure. In 1919, Doris went to King's College London and went on to gain her Professorship in 1927. She published extensively on parasites in insects and also studied amoebic dysentery, influenced by her work during the war. She retired in 1949.
Professor Alan Chalmers Lendrum
- Person
- 1907-1994
AC Lendrum was born in Midlothian and brought up in Brechin. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Ardrossan Academy then attended Glasgow University from where he graduated MA, MD and BSc.
In 1933 he was appointed assistant to Sir Robert Muir at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, and later became a lecturer in pathology at Glasgow University. From 1947 to 1967 Lendrum was professor of pathology at St Andrews University and became professor at Dundee when the University was created there in 1967.
Lendrum served on several boards and committees in the University until he retired in 1972. Lendrum was a well respected academic and was visiting professor at Yale in 1960. His experiments with staining tissues, in particular, made a significant contribution to the scientific study of disease. An interest in technical matters led to his honorary membership and presidency of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences. A member of many national and international organisations, he was a Founder Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was Chairman of the Governors of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art from 1975-1977.
His first wife, Elizabeth died in 1983. He died at Balla Wray Nursing Home by Windermere on 2 January 1994 at the age of eighty-seven and was survived by his second wife, Dr Ann Sandison.
- Person
- 1912-1985
Dr James F. Riley was born in Settle, Yorkshire. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where he graduated with Honours in 1935, obtaining his F.R.C.S.E. in 1938.
From 1939 to 1944 he was an assistant surgeon in the Scottish Emergency Medical Service, and later served as a surgical specialist commanding a mobile surgical unit in the Far East. On returning, he wrote his M.D. thesis "Experiments in Carcinogenesis 1939-1944".
In 1948 he obtained the Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy and was appointed as Consultant Radiotherapist at Dundee Royal Infirmary, and in 1950 became a reader in the Department of Radiotherapy.
From 1975-1977 Riley was a research fellow at The University of Dundee. Dr Riley's research was devoted to the study of the Mast Cell, discovering the origin of histamine, work that has stimulated further research world-wide.
Recognising his international significance, Dr Riley was appointed as a visiting Professor at the University of Montreal where he was awarded the Claude Bernard Medal, as well as being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
From 1939 to 1944 he was an assistant surgeon in the Scottish Emergency Medical Service, and later served as a surgical specialist commanding a mobile surgical unit in the Far East. On returning, he wrote his M.D. thesis "Experiments in Carcinogenesis 1939-1944".
In 1948 he obtained the Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy and was appointed as Consultant Radiotherapist at Dundee Royal Infirmary, and in 1950 became a reader in the Department of Radiotherapy.
From 1975-1977 Riley was a research fellow at The University of Dundee. Dr Riley's research was devoted to the study of the Mast Cell, discovering the origin of histamine, work that has stimulated further research world-wide.
Recognising his international significance, Dr Riley was appointed as a visiting Professor at the University of Montreal where he was awarded the Claude Bernard Medal, as well as being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
- Person
- 1928-2023
John Samuel Greene Blair OBE, TD, D. Litt, ChM, FRCS, FRCP was one of three children of George Blair (1886-1961).
He was educated at Dundee High School, and was the Dux of the School in 1946. After leaving school he studied medicine at the University of St Andrews, and was later awarded a BA by the University London.
During National Service, Dr Blair served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1952 until 1955. He subsequently had extensive service in the Territorial Army, and was appointed Honorary Colonel of 225 (Highland) Field Ambulance RAMC in 1982. He later served as Chairman of the British Medical Association's Armed Forces Committee.
Dr Blair was Consultant Surgeon at Perth Royal Infirmary from 1965 until 1990, also serving as Honorary Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Dundee. In 2004, he was appointed as an Honorary Senior Clinical Teacher, Division of Medicine & Therapeutics at the University of Dundee. He had previously been appointed as an Honorary Senior Lecture, and later Honorary Reader, in the School of Biological and Medical Sciences at the University of St. Andrews.
He has served as Captain of the Royal Perth Golfing Society & County and City Club. He is also Vice-President Emeritus of the International Society for the History of Medicine and a member of the University of Dundee Medical History Museum committee. He is an expert on the history of medicine and has been chairman of both the British Society for the History of Medicine and the Scottish Society for the History of Medicine. He is the author of several books and articles on medical history. He has also served as President of the Perth branch of the Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland. Dr Blair married Ailsa Jean Bowes MBE in 1953 and the couple have two sons, and one daughter. Dr Blair died in 2023.
He was educated at Dundee High School, and was the Dux of the School in 1946. After leaving school he studied medicine at the University of St Andrews, and was later awarded a BA by the University London.
During National Service, Dr Blair served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1952 until 1955. He subsequently had extensive service in the Territorial Army, and was appointed Honorary Colonel of 225 (Highland) Field Ambulance RAMC in 1982. He later served as Chairman of the British Medical Association's Armed Forces Committee.
Dr Blair was Consultant Surgeon at Perth Royal Infirmary from 1965 until 1990, also serving as Honorary Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Dundee. In 2004, he was appointed as an Honorary Senior Clinical Teacher, Division of Medicine & Therapeutics at the University of Dundee. He had previously been appointed as an Honorary Senior Lecture, and later Honorary Reader, in the School of Biological and Medical Sciences at the University of St. Andrews.
He has served as Captain of the Royal Perth Golfing Society & County and City Club. He is also Vice-President Emeritus of the International Society for the History of Medicine and a member of the University of Dundee Medical History Museum committee. He is an expert on the history of medicine and has been chairman of both the British Society for the History of Medicine and the Scottish Society for the History of Medicine. He is the author of several books and articles on medical history. He has also served as President of the Perth branch of the Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland. Dr Blair married Ailsa Jean Bowes MBE in 1953 and the couple have two sons, and one daughter. Dr Blair died in 2023.
- Person
- 1935-2009
Dr Charlie Dixon was a Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics Department at the University of Dundee and had worked there for over 47 years on his retiral in 2000, making him one of the University's longest serving members of staff. Charlie was a dedicated and enthusiatic teacher and the students' perennial favourite. He was an avid supporter of extending access to University to those who might not have considered further studies. Dixon was the founding member of the University's Schools Liaison Office and the first Dean of Students for the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Educated at Morgan Academy, Dundee, Charlie went on to study mathematics at the University of St Andrews. His first post was a research assistant at Queen's College, Dundee before moving to London in 1960 to work in the meteorology department at Imperial College, London. Charlie returned to Dundee two years later as lecturer, then senior lecturer in the Mathematics Department at the University. Dr Dixon also taught at the University of Western Australia and for a short spell, at the University of New Mexico.
Charlie was married to Margaret who had worked Dundee College of Commerce and Maryfield Hospital. Charlie was an accomplished bagpipe player and also enjoyed gardening in his spare time. Charlie died in 2009 aged 74 years old.
- Person
Professor Chris Murray is the first Professor of Comic Studies in the world. He created the Comic Studies program at the University of Dundee and lectures in Comics, Film, and English. He personal comics collection is so large, he built a shed in his garden to house it.
- Person
- fl 1966-
Ron McHoul attended Dundee High School and was a student at the University of Dundee. He studied at the School of Architecture, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. He is Director of Nicoll Russell Studios, the architect's practice based in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.
- Person
- fl 1970-1974
Mary Lund (nee Telfer) was a student at the University of Dundee from 1970-1974. She studied Social Sciences, residing in West Park Hall and Belmont Hall whilst a student.
- Person
- 1951-2020
Eddie was a historian, playwright, Creative Writing tutor and Public Engagement Officer for the University of Dundee's School of Humanities. He was a well-known face in Dundee literary circles and wrote the play 'The Four Marys' as well as the books 'Mary Lily Walker: The Forgotten Visionary of Dundee' and 'To Bodies Gone', the latter of which saw Eddie research the history of death in Scotland, with an emphasis on practices and rituals surrounding bereavement. He twice won the Stephen Fry award for public engagement, and was voted the 2016 Inspirational Teaching Award winner by the University’s student body. He was also well-known for his very popular tours of the city.
Eddie was born at Dundee Royal Infirmary, grew up in Kirkton and attended West March Primary School and Kirkton High. He had a variety of jobs before gaining his degree and joining the University of Dundee
Sources:
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/eddie-small-memoriam
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/tributes-flood-in-for-one-of-the-citys-great-sons-eddie-small/
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- 20 May 1940 -
Born and educated in Dundee, employed in various jobs as a young man before joining Strathmore Springs, starting as a spare driver and leaving as Senior Senior Sales Executive. Joe then moved to Sun Life, retiring as Sales Manager. Joe a successful amateur career as a darts player, becoming Dundee Singles Champion within six months of taking up the game, and holding the title six times, Tayside Champion of Champions three times and represented Scotland at all levels except full international. Married Pat in 1957 and had one daughter.
- Person
- 26 September 1937-
Born to Alexander Halley Low and Dorothy LIndesay Gregory, Alex JS Low attended Seaford College. His father and grandfather, AG Low, were both keen amateur photographers, and Alex learned basic techniques from his father; by the age of ten, his pictures were being published in the local press.
Alex developed his photographic skills whilst doing his RAF National Service in 1955-1956, after which he matriculated at a local polytechnic. However, finding the course very basic, Alex rarely attended, preferring to develop the skills he had learned at a course at the Leica factory, which he had attended while he was serving in Germany. Using his own Leica camera, Alex began building up is own 'unauthorised' portfolio, his photographs winning the most stars of merit from a prestigious judging panel at an exhibition of students' work held by the polytechnic. Despite this achievement, Alex was not welcomed back to the polytechnic, being deemed as 'undisciplined'.
Alex determined to become a photo-journalist and continued to build his portfolio, travelling around the UK and Europe capturing scenes like the Dog Market at Club Row and villages around the Mediterranean coast. Originally getting small magazine assignments, in 1960 he was offered a job as staff photographer with the Pictorial Press agency, who worked in collaboration with the US based Globe Photos Inc. However, Alex continued to shoot images like the ban the bomb marches, as opposed to the agencies' film world shoots. Meeting and working with Simon Guttman expanded his assignments into picture stories centred around the arts, but by 1964, this work was declining and Alex had a brief spell working in TV for BBC 2 with Chris Brasher. In the same year, the new colour supplement 'Weekend Telegraph' was planned and Alex was invited to join the team as its first picture editor and only staff photographer. In that capacity he worked on major picture stories in many parts of the world, including the Isle of Wight pop festival, Californian hippy communes, Club Méditerranée, Corfu, the drug problem in 1960's Hong Kong and several projects across India, where he became friends with the last Maharaja of Bikaner.
In 1971, Alex became a director of Tom Stacey Ltd, in 1971 , His first project was a 20 volume series, the 'Peoples of the World' which have been published in 14 languages around the world, but not published in the UK. Alex has written that this 'was a great challenge. We assembled a team of eminent anthropologists to advise us and write the copy. We divided a map of the world into 18 appropriate areas, one for each volume, with two additional volumes for Man the Craftsman and The Future of Mankind. Each volume was to be 144 pages. The photographs came from the files of photographers all over the world, many of whom I knew as friends through my work at the Telegraph, and also from anthropologists and historic picture collections. These books have become a unique record of the peoples of the Earth, just before and in the middle of the 20th century, before their cultures were destroyed by the spread of 20th century western civilisation and globalisation.'
By 1979, Alex had moved to Cornwall, where he and his partner, Sally, ran Coombe Farm Country Guest House until 1999.
Alex has four children with Marianne Wenzel and Sally Wickes. In recent years, Alex has lived in Devon, and with the help of partner Anna Philpott, has gathered and organised the archive of his ancestors' papers.
- Person
- 1886-1977
John Edie More was born in Farnley Tyas, near Huddersfield, June 8th 1886. He made these notes when he was working as a civil servant in one of the Ministries in London, when he was 23 or 24. Mr More died in April 1977.
- Person
- June 29 1933-December 2 2020
Margaret Grant was the founder of the Brittle Bone Society, the UK’s leading charity for the support of people with the rare bone condition Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI).
She received an honorary doctorate from Dundee University in 2018, the year of the charity’s 50th anniversary. She was also named Dundee Citizen of the Year in 1975. Other achievements included the OIF (Osteogenesis Impefercta Foundation) award in 1982 for hosting the first international conference for people with OI and the Tunstall Telecoms National caring award in 1988. She was awarded the MBE in 1989
Margaret was married and had one daughter
Source: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/1787443/obituary-brittle-bone-campaigner-margaret-grant/
She received an honorary doctorate from Dundee University in 2018, the year of the charity’s 50th anniversary. She was also named Dundee Citizen of the Year in 1975. Other achievements included the OIF (Osteogenesis Impefercta Foundation) award in 1982 for hosting the first international conference for people with OI and the Tunstall Telecoms National caring award in 1988. She was awarded the MBE in 1989
Margaret was married and had one daughter
Source: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/1787443/obituary-brittle-bone-campaigner-margaret-grant/
- Person
- 1920-2004
Professor George Murdoch specialised in the study of prosthetics and was responsible for establishing the pioneering Limb Fitting Centre which opened in Broughty Ferry in 1965
Murdoch had three children from his first marriage and two step-children through his second marriage
- Person
- fl 1984-
Researcher and author, specialising in genealogy. He is Honorary Research Fellow. at the University of St Andrews and the recognized authority on the Scottish origins of American colonists. His list of publications exceeds 100 books. Many focus on connections between Scots who went abroad and their motherland. In addition to the immigrants themselves, he has also prepared books on the ships, shipmasters, merchants, whalers, and mariners involved in maritime trades.
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- 1982-
- Person
- 1952-2016
James Clark Quinn Stewart was born in Dundee, where he and his sister was brought up by his mother. He attended Harris Academy, leaving school aged 15 then worked at various jobs in Brechin to where the family had moved.
Aged 21, he moved to Arbroath and worked as a proofreader for a local paper, progressing to news reporter. He was sacked after refusing to doorstep a family caught up in a divorce scandal.
Moving back to Dundee, Jim went to college to qualify for entrance to university. He graduated in 1984 from the University of Dundee in English Literature, then gained his Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1990. From 1987 to his death, Jim was employed at UoD, initially on teaching and research contracts, becoming a permanent staff member after his success with the Mlitt in Writing Practice & Study module.
Jim had always written poetry, but work on what became the only publication of his own body of poems 'This' coincided with his terminal illness. Jim Stewart died of cancer 24 July 2016
(Source: 'About Jim Stewart' by Jane Goldman in 'This', 2018)
Aged 21, he moved to Arbroath and worked as a proofreader for a local paper, progressing to news reporter. He was sacked after refusing to doorstep a family caught up in a divorce scandal.
Moving back to Dundee, Jim went to college to qualify for entrance to university. He graduated in 1984 from the University of Dundee in English Literature, then gained his Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1990. From 1987 to his death, Jim was employed at UoD, initially on teaching and research contracts, becoming a permanent staff member after his success with the Mlitt in Writing Practice & Study module.
Jim had always written poetry, but work on what became the only publication of his own body of poems 'This' coincided with his terminal illness. Jim Stewart died of cancer 24 July 2016
(Source: 'About Jim Stewart' by Jane Goldman in 'This', 2018)
- Person
- 1851-1937
John Fraser was born in Arbroath on 7 November 1851. He was the son of Douglas Fraser who established Douglas Fraser and Sons in Arbroath. He married Jessie Janes Scott 'Janet' and had five children. He died in Arbroath on 23 November 1937.
- Person
- fl 2023
Jim Malone was the son of the late CSgt Malone of the 4th/5th Battalion The Black Watch and 51st Highland regiment and himself a member of the Dundee branch of the Black Watch
- Person
- 1980-1989
Marshall Anderson came into being on 01.01.1990 and expired on 31.12.1999 in Kirkcaldy where he had been based throughout his lifetime. He was an anachronism who styled himself on a highland estate worker, dressed in tweeds and shod with shepherd’s boots. Bearded and with his hair tied in a ponytail, his persona was distinctive. He was perhaps the last of the Scottish romantics. His objective was to live in the Scottish landscape and use those open spaces as his studio. His approach to landscape was traditionally analogue and non-photographic. As much as possible he walked everywhere keeping the old routes – drove roads, military roads and rights of way – open and accessible. Although itinerant and based in Kirkcaldy, he used the attic at 37 Union Street, Dundee, as a repository for his plein air drawings, bookworks, daily journals, and correspondence. Throughout Anderson’s decade the attic was rented to art students for a nominal rent which helped supplement monies earned by writing freelance for newspapers, art magazines and periodicals. He also curated three exhibitions – 'Soloists: outsider art in Scotland', for art™ in Inverness; 'The Ultimate Rock Garden: ceramics and photo-documentation by Lotte Glob', for McManus in Dundee; and "Women’s Work: decorated coffins", co-curated with Lynne Nealon and exhibited in Roseangle Gallery in Dundee. Film maker Doug Aubrey interviewed Anderson for his road movie 'Victim of Geography - from Sarajevo to Cape Wrath' – where his ritualistic pyre for a greylag goose closes the journey. Collaboration was an important part of Anderson’s working practice. His many interviews with artists, who each communicated their personal relationship with the land, were treated as collaborative dialogues, not just a simple question and answer formula, from which an article would be published. Many of these articles introduced relatively isolated artists to a wider Scottish public for the first time. Examples being Steve Dilworth, James Hawkins, and Danish-born ceramicist Lotte Glob who lived in Durness when writer and artist met. Anderson’s and Glob’s ideas converged so strongly that an intimate working relationship developed. She introduced him to the Danish avant-garde and CoBrA and he made her aware of the flexibility and durability of the book as a medium for expression. Their books of the land were exhibited in Glasgow and some of the surviving examples are archived at the National Library of Scotland. Others were returned to the land and photo-documented as abandonments.
- Person
- 2010-2019
Creator of the digital archive ar phor. When the life of Peter Haining came to a creative end, a digital 10-year artwork commenced on 01.01.2010. Its title, and the name of the artist, were a humerous wordplay: 'A' was for 'animation', 'audio', 'artist', and the artist's name, 'aitch'. The titles of the first animations to be completed by aitch also began with A, for example, 'A 2 A: a commission for Fife Arts'. As ae phor developed and found its own distinctive style and language, each of the animations began with a letter of the alphabet, for example: 'C4 consumerism', 'D4 dinosaur', 'E4 ettrick', 'H4 hospital', 'O4 objects', 'R4 retina', and 'T4 terrain'. In addition to being playful, ae phor animations and audioworks were experimental and spontaneous, often relying on serendipity and accident to bring about resolutions and outcomes. ae phor deployed final cut pro and its associated software – soundtrack pro and dvd pro – as well as 2 adobe packages – photoshop and after effects to make productions. Limited edition DVDs of these were distributed freely to friends and archives. Digital technology encouraged and supported free distribution, which had been established as a guiding principle during DATA, because production costs were so minimal. All working files for animations and audioworks, as well as emails and various documents were archived and stored on external hard drives, which are in the National Library of Scotland collections along with the Mac desktop and software. The ae phor archive is therefore as complete a documentation of a 10-year working practice as was then possible. The ae phor digital artwork began life in Dundee, then moved south of the River Tay to Fife in 2011 where it was first located in a studio in Markinch before moving to a smaller space in Kirkcaldy. In 2014 aitch cycled down to the Scottish borders to research residential property so that he could live in the region and make a digital artwork based on the geological and political border. Thereby marking the vote for Scottish independence. This became 'Working the Border', based on a walk along the 95- mile line. From Galashiels aitch moved to Hawick, which opened up new vistas and potentials to explore creatively. After 6 months he moved again, eastwards to the coast where his animations brought together a cello and a colony of grey seals. The symbolism of rivers was a strong pull however and one with which he wanted to bring the ae phor decade to a close. Selkirk provided an ideal base from which to document the rivers Yarrow and Ettrick, these animations being completed in 2018 and 19 respectively.
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