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, in the role of … McKillup ( no joke – honest , and I haven ’ t mis-spelled it ) and The Lord Provost ( typecast again ) in
( 1961 ). Away from cinema and on to the ‘ telly ’ GS63 portrayed Mr . Justice Lorrimer in before going on , in 1963 , to be Mr . Justice Duncannon , playing the title role in that series . ‘ Typecast ’ you say ? Well , his final stage appearance was in the guise of Mr . Justice Treadwell in at the Queen ’ s Theatre in 1987 . His very last portrayal and appearance was as Mr . Hodinett ( no ‘ Justice ’) in a television production of in 1988 . It was on air just more than a week after his death . Andrew J . M . Cruickshank died on April 29th , 1988 . He was chairman of the board of directors of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 1970 to 1983 and , a little-known fact concerning his interests away from the theatre , he was a Scottish nationalist . He left a son and two daughters and perhaps one Dr . Cameron . However , his memory lives on in ( of all places ) Milton Keynes where there is a Cruickshank Grove and if you wish to visit the place of Dr . Cameron ’ s practice go to Callander (‘ Tannochbrae ’ in the series ) a homely town that lies between Stirling and the ‘ Road to the Isles ’… yeh canna beat it !
The Beauty of the Rose
We have a very beautiful red rose on the first page of this edition of Cornerstone and red roses were very much in evidence at Helen ’ s funeral . Several of the family members carried them and a single red rose was on the front page of the Order of Service under Helen ’ s photograph . Everybody loves roses but they were obviously deeply symbolic and especially appropriate on that otherwise very sad day . I did not myself know until the day of the funeral that Helen was born and spent her early years in Lancaster , a city and county town in the north of England . The red rose was a very important badge of identification for Lancastrians during the bitter Wars of the Roses ( 1455-1487 ) and later became and remains to this day the unofficial emblem of Lancashire . Then at the funeral Alice Goodman sang very beautifully what is unquestionably Robert Burns best known love song My Love is Like a Red Red Rose thus linking Helen ’ s English upbringing with her future Scottish family and life and the fact that for all of us red roses will always remind us of her .
Pam Kirby
Deadline for the next edition of Cornerstone : 17th September 2017