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Old daughters of Albion

1st August 1981, Page 17
1st August 1981
Page 17
Page 17, 1st August 1981 — Old daughters of Albion
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THE BIGGAR Museum Trust, whose achievements include the preservation of the town's 1839 gasworks as a scheduled ancient monument, is not to allow the hallowed name of Albion to be lost to posterity. It has just published the first issue of a quarterly magazine which it is hoped will pave the way for an Albion Owners' Club.

The Trust owns three examples of this great old make — two tippers dating from 1930 and 1938 and "a rather infamous Black Maria" of 1951. The cause of its ill-fame escapes me.

There are six more old Albions, one built in 1923, in the district with which to lay the foundations of a permanent monument to the enterprise of Thomas Blackwood Murray and his brother-in-law, Norman Osborn Fulton, in establishing a great company 81 years ago. It deserved a better fate than to be lost down a nationalised maw.