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Displaying 131 - 140 of 1961 items… nostalgically about the 'good old days' but Fiona J. Houston went one step further and spent a year in the '18th … Her talk to a packed meeting of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society explained just … and chopping wood, fetching water, tending to the vegetable gardens, and general repair and maintenance. She …
… The first lecture in the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society lecture series for 2018–19, entitled Stories Behind Dumfries and Galloway Coastal Place Names , was given by Nic Coomby of the …
… talk by Ian Wilson about a trip that he and his wife made to Antarctica. Embarking at Ushuaia in Argentina, with about 100 fellow passengers, they sailed across the notoriously rough Southern Ocean to the Falklands, a … priest from Christchurch Cathedral joined the ship here to visit her Parish, which extends to South Georgia and …
Biography: Major-General James Scott-Elliot
… one of its more influential members. This is not the place to recite his military career, for which reference should be … month, except to say that, as might be expected of an ex commander of the 51st (Highland) Division and former colonel … of all old soldiers whom he met in Dumfries and Galloway of whatever rank, regiment or war. On retiral he came to …
News: ‘Dinna Forget – Memoirs of the Kirkcudbright District and Beyond by John McKie RN (1821-1915)’
… century has recently been published by Kirkcudbright History Society. The author, John McKie, was born in 1821 and … the financial assistance generously given by the Galloway Association of Glasgow and two private donors, and the … David Devereux Kirkcudbright History Society … ‘Dinna Forget – Memoirs of the Kirkcudbright District and Beyond by …
Meeting: Life on the rocks
… Professor Stuart K. Monro OBE, DUniv, FRSE, Scientific Director of Dynamic Earth, was invited by Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society to deliver the … Waterfall in Iceland where America and Europe came together a bridge was built. Europe is drifting away from …
… over 100 members and guests of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society heard Dr Richard Jones give the … in better survival of the archaeological evidence. Here the commandant’s house can be provisionally identified. An east …
People List: TDGNHAS Editors
… Series I Volumes 1 to 6 (1864–71), Sir William Jardine Series II Volumes 1 to 19 (1879–1908), by Committee Volumes 20 to 22 (1909–11), S. Arnott Volumes 23 …
Meeting: 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 … island, where they were expected to grow most of their vegetables. Thomas Stevenson was resident engineer on the …
Meeting: Carrifran Wildwood and beyond!
… evidence has shown that 6000 years ago, approximately midway between the end of the last Ice Age and the present day, … with Hazel and Birch plus many other species. He proceeded to show us an aerial view of Manorhead, Peeblesshire in the … Craigs a relict fragment of montane scrub and tall herb vegetation has been enriched with the planting of Dwarf Birch …