page_title: Dennistoun
section_title: Amenities
hierarchical_section_title: Dennistoun / Amenities
caption_attribution_description: English: Alexander Dennistoun of Golfhill Identifier: recollectionsimp00sell (find matches) Title: Recollections and impressions, Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors: Sellar, Eleanor Mary Dennistoun, 1829- Subjects: Publisher: Edinburgh London&#160;: W. Blackwood Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ewere in Galloway that summer as usual, but hearing he was not well I hurried off to Lagarie, arriving there just after they had sat down to dinner. He was in his old place at the foot of the table, and for a moment I thought I had been unnecessarily alarmed, but then I noticed the difficulty in breathing, and I could have fallen on his neck and wept, knowing soon I should see his dear face no more. But such an exhibition would have been so contrary to his nature that I had to try to emulate his own calmness. For a week he was up and dressed as usual; was interested in all that was going on; sat outside silently gazing on the beauties of nature, which he loved with a passion I have rarely seen equalled, knowing it was for the last time, but making no reference to this, and by an intangible something in his lookrepressing any emotional affection or allusion to the future. For three days he was confined to bed,mostly silent and always uncomplaining, but nodoubt he was very wearied; and I remember well Text Appearing After Image: 1-loiu a/&gt;liolo^)apk i,y Kodger, St Andrc^us, 1054. ALEXANDER DENNISTOUN or Golfhill. DEATH OF ALEXANDER DENNISTOUN. page 17 the pathetic look in his clear blue eyes as he said to Dr Cowan who attended him,Difficult to kill, Doctor ...as Dr John Brown said of one of his patients, that he died of death, and knew little of the meaning of failing faculties or long illness. I laid on his breast moss - roses — his favourite flowers, perhaps because of the name taking him back to the Moss where he had spent happy days of boyhood; and he often said that if he were ill, the sight of Dumgoyne, a spur of the Campsie range near the Moss, would cheer and comfort him.To quote again from the book already mentioned&#160;: Of the late Alexander Dennistoun, it may be safely said those who knew him best loved him most. Affable and courteous to all, he was endeared to his intimate friends by his high-toned honour,his kindliness, his clear head, and his capacity and intel Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Dennistoun is a mostly residential district in Glasgow, Scotland, located north of the River Clyde and in the city's east end, about 1.2 miles east from the city centre. Since 2017 it has formed the core of a Dennistoun ward under Glasgow City Council, having previously been a component of the East Centre ward.
  Aside from the smaller Haghill neighbourhood further east, Dennistoun's built environment does not adjoin any others directly, with the M8 motorway dividing it from Royston to the north, while the buildings of Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Wellpark Brewery plus the Glasgow Necropolis cemetery lie to the west, and railway lines form the southern boundary with the Gallowgate neighbourhood and Camlachie on the opposite side.
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