Author : Ann Matheson ISBN : 9781840330397 Cover : paperback Price : £11.95
Some of the highlights of Old Tinto Villages (companion volume to Old Biggar) include Carmichael House (now a ruin), haymaking on Cormiston Estate, a group of Coulter shepherds, each carrying crooks and woollen blankets that were folded and used to carry lambs, and Dora Don posing with her moped outside the schoolhouse in Coulter. Thankerton, Lamington, Symington, Wiston, Tinto, Covington, Shieldhill and Quothquan are also included. There's an amazing variety of pictures, covering some of the big houses and their ornamental gardens, all aspects of village life, the local railway and bus services and rural pastimes and customs in general.
