Happy Birthday

Born on the 6th of March 1933, makes my dad an octogenarian today ... happy birthday dad.

Here is the birthday boy with my mum in the Eglinton Arms car park, Eaglesham, with the Parish Church in the background.

It is probable that there has been a place of worship here since the fifth or sixth centuries. The present church was designed by Robert McLachlane and completed in 1790. The church was originally a small octagonal building and later extended. A memorial to Covenanters Robert Lockhart and Gabriel Thomson who were shot by Highlandmen and Dragoons under the command of Archibald MacAulay, laird of Ardincaple for their adherence to the Solemn League and Covenant as they returned from a coventicle on 1 May 1685, stands in the kirkyard.