Artifacts for our future Center in Scotland at Pitreavie

Andrew Pearson, who has willed us his extensive library for our Center, has also donated this Cruisie Lamp.
"It came to me through my mother and was - so far as she could ascertain - acquired from a large house somewhere in Argyll by her grandmother, presumably in the late eighteen hundreds when the gentility were disgarding such outmoded items in favour of going onto the (then) new fangled parafin lamps.   Unfortunately, my mother's mother had the sense of inferiority inculcated into Gaels of that era, i.e. that Gaelic and the Highland way of life was primitive and something to be lived down.   Consequently, my mother was never able to get much out of my grandmother by way of information. But at least, on the death of her parents, my mother made sure that she secured the lamp during the distribution of 'spoils' for, otherwise, where (i.e. into what rubbish dump) might it have ended up? "


This oil painting of St Andrews Cathedral ruins was given to the Clan Wardlaw Association on our 2009 Wardlaw Tour when we visited Navitie House, an old Wardlaw landholding from very early days. Owners of Navitie House, Roy and Vi Sivier, had this painting and wanted it to be in our Wardlaw Center, so they graciously donated it to us. We have since had it beautifully framed in a black, rounded edge frame, under glass and it is awaiting delivery to Pitreavie when we open our Center there in the future.