Peggy Hutchison
Peggy Hutchison’s Recollections PDF Print E-mail
Written by Hilda McAdam   
Saturday, 09 January 2010 18:06
Peggy Hutchison’s Recollections

Mrs Peggy Hutchison, (nee Kirk) recalled when she was at school in Dalry.  All her family would leave home each morning at 8am, from the Bogue onto Dalry to be in time for school.  They had to carry their meals with them as there was no kitchen at the school.  Every day, Peggy remembered that the ‘pieces’ were either cheese or fried ham.  School did not finish until 4 o’clock, so by the time they had walked home after that, it had been a very long day.

Although the Kirk family had to walk to school from the Bogue, they were very often the first children to arrive in the morning.  Peggy remembered each morning watching the fires in every classroom being lit by old Mrs Ferguson, Hilda’s great-grandmother.

Peggy also remembered one day when the weather was pretty bad.  The wind was so strong that a young man, Will Thomson, came into the school and collected all the children from the Bogue, and he, and a friend of his, walked on each side of the Kirk children till they got to the Bogue, in case they got blown away in the wind.

Mrs Hutchison’s first teacher when she started school was Miss Brown, who had also taught her mother who was born in 1886 – long-spanning careers in those days.