Woodend must have been a fabulous place to spend your childhood.
With its enormous wood panelled hallway, its gallery, corridors, myriad rooms, beautiful gardens and own patch of woodland, it feels like the type of stately home Enid Blyton used to set her novels in. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Uncle Quentin emerge from his study and shoo the Famous Five out the door for one of their adventures.
In fact, it is where David and Andrew Smith spent their childhood. The brothers run J. Henderson butchers, which was founded in 1934 by their grandfather.
“Andrew and I grew up here and it was a wonderful place to spend our childhoods,” David explains.
Jock Porter pictured in 1923 following his Isle of Man Lightweight TT win.
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Jock Porter was Scotland’s first Isle of Man TT champion who built his own motorcycles.
Jock won “the most dangerous motorsport event in the world” in 1923 and 1924 and won 10 Grand Prix races.
He was hailed as the ‘Solitary Scot’ who travelled to Europe to compete alone but Scotland’s first TT winner remains the nation’s forgotten star.