Last week we left Corsock’s Jim Pringle recounting how, as a 20-year-old, he headed south to start a job with agricultural manufacturers Gush and Dent at Penrith.
The year was 1963, and Jim was a draughtsman in the plant, drawing up plans for made-to-measure tubular gates and stock pens for customers across southern Scotland and the northern counties of England.
“I was the only Scots boy in the factory,” he tells me over a coffee with wife Maretta in the conservatory.
