WEDDING PRESENTS
CROFTERS VISIT PALACE
Two. crofters from Harris, in the outer Hebrides went to Buckingham Palace on October .31 with two brownpaper parcels, states an exchange The parcels, contained two rolls of Harris tweed, the islanders' wedding gifts to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. The two. crofters bearing these gifts arrived at King's Cross in the Flying Scotsman. They were -Mrs. Kate Morrison, mother of 10 children, and Mr. Kenneth Mclnnes, 77. They left Harris, in a snowstorm in the morning and their 700-mile journey occupied over 30 hours. Mrs. Morrison saw a big city for the first time since she visited. Edinburgh I 30 years ago. She has never been inside a cinema. "And I don't think | I'll be wanting to," she said. The only j film star.she had heard of was "a wo-1 man called West." ! London's night-time brightness was \ a revelation to Mrs. Morrison, but its I late hours . left her unmoved. Midnight is the earliest hour at which she is accustomed to go to bed. ! "Many times it is two o'clock or after before we end our work," she said. "Often we start the weaving at eight in the morning and go on all day. "Our present has all been spun and woven by hand. It has been dyed with lichens, mosses, and dock leaves."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 136, 5 December 1935, Page 19
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221WEDDING PRESENTS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 136, 5 December 1935, Page 19
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