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Displaying 1 - 10 of 613 itemsWood Pigot personal list: Pigot Personal, Dumfries & Maxwelltown, 1837-38
… Adamson , Robert [Agent (bank)] Bank, British Linen Company - , Irish Street (Irish Street) Note: Bankers - … Globe Inn (High Street) Note: Carriers. 'Peter Johnstone and T. Baxter, from opposite Mr Baileff's, and William … (High Street) Note: Umbrella Makers Clark , Isabella, Mrs 26 Castle Street (Castle Street) Note: Nobility, Gentry and …
Wood Pigot personal list: Pigot Personal, Dumfries & Maxwelltown, 1825–26
… Trades Anderson , Allan [Bookseller, Binder or Stationer (& Library)] 69 High Street (High Street) Note: … Anderson, every Wednesday'. Armstrong , Baillie [Member of Committee for the Poors' Hospital] Poors' Hospital (St … &c., Iron Mongers Bell , Walter [Carrier to Edinburgh] 26 Queensberry Street, departure point for Edinburgh carrier …
… sites, such as Maes Howe, Skara Brae, Ring of Brodgar, Stones of Stenness, Watch Stone and Barnhouse Stone seemed to … the Rising Tide Project set up in 2005 and the Royal Commission's aerial surveying, which brought to light the … welcomed via the website . Last summer the site had 7,500 visitors. In 2013 there will be daily guided tours from 17th …
Biography: Dr Thomas Boyle Grierson
… representation, mainly marine fossils, from CLOSEBURN limestone quarry: large Nautiloids, large and very complete … ABBEY. Forked Bronze object, HOLYWOOD Churchyard. Coins found in Mid-Nithsdale, and presumably part of the … its library (which functioned as a lending library), school visits were frequent and made a great impression on the …
… Cree Valley Community Woodlands Trust (CVCWT) was the subject of Peter … have been planted as fodder for animals. Various woods were visited on screen and the fauna and flora covered. Starting … The early leases are well advanced, whereas the newer ones are in the early stages of adaptation. The wonderful …
Standard page: John Wood's Town Plans and Pigot & Company's Directories
… John Wood's detailed maps of the major towns and cities of Scotland … etc. Lists of personal names John Wood Map, Annan, 1826 John Wood Map, Dumfries & Maxwelltown, 1819 John Wood … of personal names and placenames found in these sources was compiled by James Williams and is the origin of these lists. …
… Dumfries . Intrigued, the members wondered where a sandstone building fitted into a talk about wood! Early in the … to build a new town house with an imposing steeple. A committee was appointed to oversee the construction work. A … design. He and James Johnston were empowered to pay a study visit to Glasgow. The financial records state: "To Mr …
… Peter Garson’s lecture introduced the key aspects of the human history of the wood, … but there is no evidence for such a feature. Remnants of stone dykes within the reserve in the area north of the Doon … been used in the tanning process there. The OS Name Books compiled around 1850 record that the Doon was ‘thickly …
TDGNHAS Card: 3086-6
… There is documentary evidence for the management of woods in southern Scotland in the medieval period. At … and by stipulating a 10 to 15 year rota for cutting wood. Combined with the palynological evidence from the area this … to a system of coppicing, but coppicing is nowhere mentioned in the sources nor do the sources explain how these …
Biography: Sir William Jardine of Applegarth
… Included with the obituary is an interesting account of a visit to Jardine Hall by a Dr Johnston - it describes the … botanical lectures of Mr. James Scott; while his studies in comparative anatomy, were carried on under Professor John … led to his appointment in 1860, as the principal Commissioner appointed to investigate the Salmon Fisheries of Great …