Today we went for a walk to see Milngavie’s oldest house – The Corby Ha’- which is now home to the Milngavie Pipe Band.  We didn’t hear any bagpipes today, but we did see the house and heard how the people would have lived in one half and their farm animals would have lived in the other half.  We thought about all the jobs the children would have had to do on the farm in the olden days – collecting water from the stream, gathering sticks for the fire and cleaning out the animals’ poo from the byre.  We decided we were glad we weren’t born in the olden days!!  We then walked down to Gavin’s mill and looked at the old building.  It is really, really old and it is the reason that Milngavie has it’s name.  We saw all the wheels from the machinery that worked the mill and then we went round the side of the mill to see the great big mill wheel that was turned by water power to work the mill.  The Allander burn was really fast today with lots of water flowing down it and we could imagine how fast the wheel might turn.  We went up onto the bridge and played pooh-sticks, watching them rush off down the very fast river.  We went home by the Salmon ladder and watched, and heard, the water rushing down the waterfalls.  We saw lots of things on our walk that were really interesting – we are glad we live in Milngavie.