BRIERYSHAW, Ewes, Dumfriesshire

[Ruskie]

Me too Ruskie   It's a strange thing but I was born in the then Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and have only had 2 visits to the UK but I have such a STRONG emotional reaction to anything Scottish.   I'll never forget how my 17 year old South African born daughter literally fell in love with The Scottish accent and everything to do with Scotland and we both still get that emotional weepy reaction to bagpipe music so no matter how diluted  the Scottish genes are, they are definitely dominant ones (My dad's father was born in Aberdeen and his mother's grandfather was this "Scott' guy I am battling to trace )

Jen

I understand that completely. I am born and bred in Australia, but have always been an Anglophile at heart, even from a very young age. I spent several years living in the UK and my children were born there. Now my 17 year old is hankering to return when she finishes school. I love Scotland and really enjoyed the research I did on other family member's Scottish ancestors. I have always felt a bit miffed that I have no Scottish roots myself, but I am still hopeful that my Northumbrian roots may eventually lead there.

[wiamurray]

Have just joined and stumbled across this thread while having a look around. It just so happens that I knew the family that lived in the Brieryshaw back in the 1970s and I still have some photographs from that time.

So with apologies for resurrecting an old thread I thought the OP might be interested to see the attached photos (which I reckon date from 1978).

The family moved out in the mid 1990s and the buildings were subsequently demolished so that the A7 could be straightened. The road used to kink quite severely round the buildings. Some of the old road still exists as a lay-by. The car pictured in this link - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1815847 - is parked pretty close to where the road can just be seen on the right-hand side of the third photo.

[Ruskie]

Welcome to rootschat wiamurray! You are more than welcome to revive old posts on rootschat. 

Love the photos - I am so upset that the house has been demolished.

[wiamurray]

Welcome to rootschat wiamurray! You are more than welcome to revive old posts on rootschat. 

Thanks!

I have a lot of fond memories associated with the Brieryshaw

Last time I saw it standing was, I think, some time in 1994. I passed by one day en route to Moffat from Edinburgh via Langholm and Lockerbie - taking the long way round to visit some of my old haunts  It was more than twelve years before I was back on that part of the A7 and was somewhat confused when I realised I had gone past the Ewes kirkyard without passing the Brieryshaw 

The two photos that jenimac found are interesting - 2922 shows the approach to the Brieryshaw as you would have seen it driving north from Langholm. The house that I knew was behind the remaining farm buildings that can be seen in this photo.

I can't figure out 1380. Doesn't look like the Brieryshaw and I can't place that picture at all within that part of Ewes.