North east folk : from cottage to castle
Adair, Elizabeth, 1910-20051982
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Main title:
North east folk : from cottage to castle / Elizabeth Adair.
Author:
Adair, Elizabeth, 1910-2005, author
Publisher:
Edinburgh : Harris, 1982.
Collation:
117p,(26)p of plates : ill., facsims.,ports. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
George Conn, Crimean Private no. 3932 - - Royal gardener: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - - Jock and Mary Esson of Wester Micras - - Farquharson of Invercauld and the regalia - - The black sheep of Dinnet - - James McGivern Humphrey, M.C. - - James Craig: blacksmith - - Lavinia Smiley of Castle Fraser - - Anne Cocker: rose specialist - - Cocky Hunter - - Mary McMurtie of Balbithan - - Jessie Kesson: author - - George Barron: gardener extraordinary - - People who have gardens: James Hird and Williamina Nicol - - Bessie Brown: teacher of piping - - Walter Leiper: lapidarist - - Harold Esslemont: in an Alpine garden - - H. Adair Nelson: the early days of His Majesty's Theatre.
ISBN:
08622803119780862280314
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
ScotlandGrampian RegionPersons1800-1980BiographiesBIOGRAPHYABERDEENSHIRE
BRN:
391590
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