R.I.P. Kirky Legend - Passed away on 14 July 2013
This is a rather unusual post for me, in that it is about a man I saw every day (for about thirty years) until about a week ago, Jim Rae.
Jim looked like a man of the road, with his tattered oilskins, large rubber galoshes and a huge backpack.
Whenever I went into the Village he was always there, striding along the road with his peculiar loping gait, or standing at one of the bus stops.
He wasn't homeless though, he apparently lived in a modern appartment near Townhead in Kirkintilloch .
Goodbye Jim, you will be sadly missed.
A Tribute Page has been established on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/RIP-Kirky-Legend/398575646920819?hc_location=stream
Photographs are courtesy of that Page.
Please note that the organiser of the Kirky Legend Facebook page has arranged to have a collector, or collectors at the Kirkintilloch Canal Festival on Saturday 24 August to raise a fund to pay for a monument to Jim Rae.
Photographs are courtesy of that Page.
Please note that the organiser of the Kirky Legend Facebook page has arranged to have a collector, or collectors at the Kirkintilloch Canal Festival on Saturday 24 August to raise a fund to pay for a monument to Jim Rae.
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