WHILE not wishing to diminish in any way the excellent work that Anne Mulhearn, owner of the Mackintosh Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow, has done and continues to do, I'm sure that even she would have blushed when she read in The Herald (“'The way I make a scone is the same as my mum and grandmother. That is a precious link’”, The Herald, November 15) that, according to broadcaster Kirsty Wark, Ms Mulhearn "was the first to recognise the significance of Charles Rennie Mackintosh to the city. Anne was in the vanguard of the big Charles Rennie Mackintosh revival."
Long before Ms Mulhearn opened her first tea room in 1983, Mackintosh was being promoted and championed by people such as the late Patricia Douglas who was a founder, in 1973, of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, and Roger Billcliffe, whose first book on Mackintosh came out in 1979. Douglas Percy Bliss, a director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1946 to 1964, worked tirelessly to save the Mackintosh tea rooms. His guide Charles Rennie Mackintosh and The Glasgow School of Art was first published in 1961 (in English and French).
Deedee Cuddihy,
10 Otago Street, Glasgow.
MANY of your readers may find it unlikely that anyone could find a link between Brexit and the humble scone which featured in your Lifestye and Arts section.
Noting that Kirsty Wark’s most appetising recipe for scones is set out entirely in non-metric terms led me to reflect on the history of metrication. The UK’s first moves to adopt the metric system began as long ago as 1965 with full adoption of the metric system adopted in Europe some 30 years later. At that time the UK was temporarily allowed to continue using its imperial system, which concession, with the exception of miles and liquid measure, was due to expire some eight years ago.
I hesitate to suggest that only the younger members of our society may have any problems with Ms Wark’s recipe.
Duncan Miller,
38 Middlemuir Road, Lenzie.
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