Hogganfield Loch 7½" X 10½"

This painting brings back happy memories of the years I spent teaching in Ashcraig School in Glasgow, which overlooks Hogganfield Loch. I learned an interesting story from a man I met while out for a walk round the Loch one day. The house between the trees, which is now empty, used to be the local Primary school. He had attended this school as a boy, and he and the other boys often left a fishing line in the water overnight - stretching from the school wall to the loch. They would check their lines in the morning before the school bell rang to see if they had caught any fish! (Must have had a very indulgent heedie! Certainly not one who worried unduly about Health & Safety or, perish the thought, whether angling was politically correct!) Spare a thought though, for 'auld Jimmy' making his way home from the pub on a dark night, when fishing lines would be the last thing on his mind.

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