WEDDING AT DAWN
Doctor's Night Race to Gretna Green Both wearing evening' dress, a Scottish doctor and a pretty Glasgow girL raced through the night from a Glasgow ballroom, and were married over the anvil .at. .tlie Gretna sniithy. soon after daWn.brolce. - The couple were Dr. David Broadfoot Watson, aged 35, .of the Stirling County Asylum Hospital, Larbert, and - Miss Emily Kemp,* aged 29, slim and darkhaired, of Shamrock- street, Glasgow. Mr Rennison, the Gretna "blacksmith priest," stated in an interview that the couple were shivering with cold when they arrived. "I was knocked up," he added, "and after the circumstanees had been explained I performed the anvil ceremony. "They assurpd'me of their agection for each other. Smilingly they left my smithy arnl-in-ann after telling»me they irttehded to go to Carlisle for breakfast and return to Glasgow." Dr. Watson was back at his duties later in the day. •
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 37, 6 November 1937, Page 6
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