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Further to Sandy's picture #4495
History, or vandalism?
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Yeah Lindsay, or even art form. I was thinking about such matters when I uploaded picture #4132. I wrote my name on a school desk once. Retribution was sore - very sore.
Added by Sandy on 15 September 2007
Vandalism then, history now. One day in the 1890s Sheriff Armour (see picture #4492) went up the tower of the Cathedral and arrived at the top just in time to find a youth from Aberdeen scratching his initials on one of the spire slates. The youth promptly found himself in the Sheriff Court on a charge of malicious mischief. His claim that there were lots of other names already scrawled there (including, he said, Prince Albert's) proved no excuse.
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Added by Paul Sutherland on 16 September 2007
Hoy and Walls
