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Displaying 221 - 230 of 236 items… many contain, with the painstaking depiction of trees becoming increasingly common in the early nineteenth century. Drumlanrig Castle … kitchen garden at Drumlanrig. Professor Munro held his audience enthralled before responding authoritatively to a …
… a former cabinetmaker, worked for the Water Navigation Company. Dumfries Archive Centre acquired many of Newall's … an excellent PowerPoint presentation that carried his audience through a wide range of emotions: admiration for Newall's architectural accomplishments in the area; the drama of the …
Meeting: Natural and Manufactured Yarns
… British sheep breeds and other non-native varieties. Sheep come in an assortment of shapes and sizes and produce a … fine for garments to very coarse for carpets. Fibre also comes from goats, dogs, rabbits and the camelid family, with … melted, air-dried and spun to form a fibre. And what of the future? Genetic engineering has already produced a goat that …
Meeting: The Chelsea Physic Garden
… How fortunate we are that this gentleman of manifold accomplishments chose to retire to Dumfriesshire! He was … by Dawtry Drewitt. Apothecaries were part of the Grocers' Company until they broke away in 1617. They were given … though Allen had already been appointed Curator. The tree died. The following year Allen's wife, Penelope, planted a …
Volume: TDGNHAS Series II, Volume 4
… [1883, 5th October] Author: Council, The 1 Successful outcome of Protest against proposed changes to the Old Bridge … Author: King, J.J. 57 Notes on the Town's [Dumfries] Common Mills and their History Author: Barbour, J. 58 … Starke, J.G. Hamilton 142 A Stoic Philosopher's View of the Diety [including notes on the teachings of Epictetus] …
Biography: Patrick Crichton
… of Guinness Overseas Ltd., and remained with this company for eleven years. Early retirement brought him to … but soon afterwards he accepted the invitation to become Comptroller at Mount Stuart for the Marquis of Bute. … mind was full of ideas and suggestions. Partick Crichton died in April 2003 at the age of 82, leaving his wife, two …
… plan for a railway through Dumfries was in pre-steam-locomotive 1809 when James Hollingworth surveyed a route south … there had been earlier attempts at railways for steam locomotive, it was the opening of the Stockton and Darlington … by the Dumfriesshire MP, J.J. Hope Johnstone who, purely coincidentally, was a big landowner along the Annandale …
Meeting: Utah and Arizona — a Love Affair
… to that of today. November saw large animals and plants coming to life and sandstone forming. On December 11th the … 2,000 arches of fins of rock. Arches over water in time become a bridge instead. A fault in the rock allows a crack to … the Mexican Border, is the most dangerous. Three rangers died in 2008. Drug peddlars are the reason. The dilemma …
… there was standing room only at Gatehouse of Fleet Community Centre on Saturday, 13 April, when 135 people … inhabited from the fifth to the late sixth centuries AD, coming to a violent and fiery end around 600 AD, at the time … with fresh discoveries being posted on the project website . In addition, a new leaflet, Discover Dark Age …
Meeting: The saving of the City of Adelaide
… and the State of South Australia, which was run as a commercial operation, not taking convicts. She operated this … was refused. In 2010 the city of Adelaide’s proposal of a complex project to move the ship to South Australia was … to have been involved. After answering questions from the audience, the speaker was thanked by Alastair Gair for his …