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Displaying 121 - 130 of 2530 itemsMeeting: Life and Death on Little Ross
… around 70 members and guests of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society gathered to hear a lecture entitled Life and Death on Little Ross , by Kirkcudbright historian David … storm in 1835, and local pressure eventually persuaded the Commissioners of the Northern Lights to build a lighthouse. …
… Architectural historian Martin Robertson, himself a resident of a Category A Bastle House in New Abbey, entertained … an uplift to the whole region. The six buildings were all located on English Street and the High Street and were of … at ground level and above this would have been family accommodation. This might have been for the manager and his …
… At the Annual General Meeting of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society the retiring President, Liam Murray, gave a talk on the Penpont-born African … square miles, territories which were subsequently to become Zimbabwe and Zambia. He made one final trip to Southern …
… talk, Stephen Rutt gave an account of his journey to becoming a nature writer. He left his job in London in March 2015, to follow a Master’s degree course at Essex University, but in the intervening …
Meeting: Between the Tides
… members and visitors gathered to hear a talk by marine biologist Jim Logan, entitled 'Between the Tides'. In his talk the speaker aimed to give an overview of … such as crabs, which range from the large edible crab (complete with piecrust-like shell!), to the tiny pea crab, …
… Seventy-eight members and guests of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society packed the … buffs, it was an enthralling yet masterly tale of high endeavour and low skulduggery, of exuberant public celebration … plan for a railway through Dumfries was in pre-steam-locomotive 1809 when James Hollingworth surveyed a route south …
… Jim Crow of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh University has served there since 2007. In … to South West Germany. His skill as a photographer was evident and revealed some spectacular scenery in all locations. … must have had some military function: witness one of the welcome to Pathhead signs, as one approaches from the English …
TDGNHAS Card: 3086-6
… There is documentary evidence for the management of woods in southern Scotland in … and in the 15th century, and probably earlier, by enclosing some woods. Kelso Abbey placed an area of woodland in … and by stipulating a 10 to 15 year rota for cutting wood. Combined with the palynological evidence from the area this …
Biography: Major-General James Scott-Elliot
… Obituary from TDGNHAS , Series III, Vol. LXX, p.115 By the death of General Scott-Elliot, in September 1996 at the age of 93, not only did the Country lose a distinguished soldier of the second World War, but … month, except to say that, as might be expected of an ex commander of the 51st (Highland) Division and former colonel …
TDGNHAS Card: 3089-10
… In 2012–2013 Alastair and Catriona Duncan recorded nineteen audio interviews with over-sixty residents or … of the parish of Kirkpatrick Fleming, Dumfries and Galloway, and with four groups: older people, 30-year-olds, new … 6. Kirkpatrick (as the village of Kirkpatrick Fleming is commonly known) lies twelve miles south-east of Lockerbie …