“Finavon”
Sir, —As nobody else seems to be capable of putting up a claim for the retention of the name, “Finavon Park,” may I inquire where all the ’’interest” lies I have been led to suppose? As a matter of honest fact the land at present is a standing, disgrace to all concerned. Never in all my 60 years’ knowledge of “Finavon” have I ever seen such an appalling, dumpty, slummocky, tangled jungle of wild tussock grass, gorse, and broom, all wildly thriving over heaps of refuse and wreckage of all kinds. I almost broke my legs half a dozen times in getting down to the river. Well might my father’s ghost utter Scotland’s age-old motto—“Nemo me impune lacessit”—Yours, etc., R. M. THOMSON.
November 15, 1959. [The Town Clerk (Mr H. S. Feast), to whom this letter was referred, replies: "I am unable to offer any comment additional to that submitted in reference to Mr Thomson’s previous letter on this subject beyond saying that as the property has never been known as Finavon Park the question of the retention of that name does not arise.”]
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29061, 25 November 1959, Page 7
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