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Displaying 21 - 30 of 613 itemsMeeting: Natural and Manufactured Yarns
… Friday 26 January's talk was from local spinner, weaver and dyer, … was growing in something more eco-friendly. China pioneered the development of bamboo fibre, and tencel, a fibre … little research to find out how things are produced before buying. S.R. … Dr Fiona Moir … Natural and Manufactured Yarns …
Wood Pigot place list: Pigot Places, Dumfries and Maxwelltown, 1837-38
… The modern location of the place is given in parentheses. … Troqueer (Rotchell Park) Maxwelltown Bank of Scotland, Commercial - Irish Street (Irish Street) Dumfries Bank of … (Friars Vennel) Dumfries Note: Carriers - 'Jas. Hiddlestone, from John Neilson's, Friars Vennel, and Thomas Wilson …
Meeting: Carrifran Wildwood and beyond!
… friends and colleagues had the idea of a grass- roots group buying and restoring a whole denuded valley, creating a … Lottery and other sources, with the Wildwood Group becoming a devolved and volunteer-led part of BFT. In 1996 … and stripped of trees by fire, sheep and feral goats. One Rowan tree survived in a rocky part of the valley where …
… Many were built from around 500 BC to the Roman period, and fewer in the early medieval period. Their place in … nearby White Loch is a substantial body of water with one know crannog. Firstly, a topographic survey was … Black Loch they were found to be 2–2.5m in diameter with stone bases. Excavations began in 2014. In the first building …
Biography: Robert Service
… Natural History , No. 79, July 1911, p.129 (by Hugh S Gladstone) and in the Gallovidian, Volume XIII, Summer 1911, pp. … years ago he gratified a long cherished desire when, on a visit to Germany, he was enabled to obtain a passing glimpse … Alpine Hare in South-West Scotland. "Zoologist," 1893, pp. 265-266. 1894 Occurrence of Whiskered Tern in Solway. …
Biography: Richard Rimmer
… is to thank you very heartily for the honour you have done me in electing me to your presidential chair. When your … Nature’s beneficent Creator. TDGNHAS, Series II, Vol. 6, p.268. 7 June, 1890: Field Meeting to Terregles, Holywood and … furniture carved, and rare old china ; and those who visited the Fine Art Exhibition in Dumfries do not require …
Wood Pigot place list: Pigot Places, Dumfries and Maxwelltown, 1825-26
… Dumfries Note: Noted under 'Resident Gentry' - appears erroneously as 'Albion Place' Albion Place - see entry for … (Albany) Dumfries Note: In the Pigot &c. Directory for 1825/26 there are six entries for 'Albion Place' which, based on … Insurance [Co.] (English Street) Dumfries Bank of Scotland, Commercial - (High Street) Dumfries Note: Merchants, …
… Lionel Masters, well-known and very popular in Dumfries and … title and although it might not seem to have anything in common with Jimmy's interests, there is the common theme of … fish hooks are the basic archaeology of the region. Metal products came only in time from the New World. Six-inch nails …
… 35 projects in this area, of which the Can You Dig It? community archaeology project is one. The work involved has been undertaken by volunteers … rectangular courtyard enclosing two buildings. A second visit to the site cleared an adjacent kiln barn for drying …
… from the archaeological site. The Society was treated to one of the earliest reports of what has been considered to be a most successful and exciting period of study, brought about thanks to a vital re-routing of … Warren presented a series of excellent slides to accompany a very informative talk, thus making it difficult, …