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| a8afab6 | Johnstone railway station was small, neat and tidy, quite attractive. On the platforms, I noticed that the signs also had the name in Gaelic - 'Baile Iain', literally 'John's town'. It is a recent wheeze by the triumphant, all-conquering Scottish National Party to add the Gaelic name to every station in the whole of Scotland, despite the fact that most of these places never had a Gaelic name or people who ever spoke Gaelic. | Hunter Davies | ||
| c5e7c73 | I was sent to a teacher called Alf Adamson, who had a country dance band that toured the Borders. | Hunter Davies |