Last week we left Hardie Carruthers in Carlisle where he had just married his beloved Jean in Upperby Church in February, 1948.
He was on track to become a train driver with British Railways but the sudden death in 1950 of his father Samuel, a gamekeeper on Orchardton Estate at Palnackie, cut short his railway career.
The sad loss meant the young couple and their toddler son Malcolm moved in with Sam’s widow Agnes at Redliggate, the gamekeeper’s cottage at Orchardton.
