Mrs Smiths Farm At Coalburn

A Memory of Coalburn.

I remember a stunning girlfriend, Rosemary Smith,  whose family farmed at Coalburn. We met while both working and studying in Manchester and I remember our visit to her mother's farm at Coalburn in 1968.  THere were fields of sheep, rain, sheep, trees, rain, lovely farmstead, rain, coal fire, rain, her old A40 Countryman estate car, rain etc!  A lovely place and a lovely girl. When we met I had no idea at all of either her farming or her Scottish background and I fell in love with it all. Around seven years later I moved to East Kilbride and worked in Glasgow and I recall that each time I drove up and down the old A74 between Glasgow and London I could see Mrs Smith's farm from my car. Happy memories!

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