Gavin Maxwell's book “Ring of Bright Water” is a much-loved account of the otters that live in Galloway.
He lived from 1914 to 1969 and had a very colourful life. A short distance north of Port William, on the top of a cliff overlooking the sea, can be found a bronze statue of an otter and a plaque commemorating Gavin Maxwell.
Talking a few days ago with some ladies who remembered him and the Maxwell family, it became apparent that the family had a very well defined concept of its superior social status. One lady said that her grandfather and father put the plumbing into the big house and she and other children went along some days. “But Gavin and his brothers and sisters weren't allowed to talk to us as we were only the children of working men.”
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