‘Capone’ car
Besides, “the good story” does have more life in it.
When I was helping out during a vacancy in the parish church, an extremely trustworthy Innerleithen member who had been brought up in the area told me that as a young girl she had seen a photograph of Al Capone standing on the grand piano of a big house “up the granites” – where The Ley is situated – signed by “Uncle Al”.
Now, as a Walkerburn man these days, I hasten to say that I omitted this good story from my memoirs in case any of rival Innerleithen’s defensive denizens cast up the absolute untruth that in the same decades Walkerburn men used to put a cow on the railway line so that the train would stop long enough for them to load all their poached salmon for the London market!
(Rev) Jack Kellet
Walkerburn