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Displaying 31 - 40 of 1885 items… Seventy-eight members and guests of the Dumfriesshire and … 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 …
… lecturer of the Department of Archaeology of Glasgow University, addressed Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural … the walker covers the ground. Interpreting the readings is complicated by the fact that other features, such as modern … two sensors and thereby double the ground covered. A German Company, Sensys, employs a Suzuki to pull a cart with 16 …
Meeting: Scotland's Earliest People
… Cumberland Street Day Centre was the venue for the AGM and inaugural meeting of the Dumfriesshire … it was an area of known prehistoric activity. Fieldwalking commenced in ploughed fields on Howburn Farm and the finds … was stopped so that researchers in the future could come back and excavate. The finds included a huge range of …
Meeting: Overland to the Caucasus
… Jeremy Brock: Overland to the Caucasus Jeremy Brock, member and former … those elusive birds. However, Jeremy did manage to see the Common Rosefinch; Black Redstart; Red fronted Serin; … from the Greek - Colchis, which gives its name to our common pheasant ( Phasianus colchicus ) and the Colchicum …
… School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh University has served there since 2007. In the 1970s his Roman … must have had some military function: witness one of the welcome to Pathhead signs, as one approaches from the English … On the other hand in SE Turkey in an area called Commagene in Asia Minor there was a series of …
Biography: James Williams
… and Antiquarian Born 27 February 1944 at Stourport-on-Severn Died 27 November 2009 in Dumfries, aged 65 James … of the region and made it available to both the local community and academic interests nationally and … and the organisation of collections, coupled with the communication of knowledge. The unpublished memoirs of the …
Biography: Samuel Arnott
… became a member of Society on 1st July 1893. He served as a member of Council on numerous occasions and became … first specifically 'named' Editor of the Transactions for volumes 20 to 22 (inc) of the second series — published in … on Stems of Lilies , Series II, Vol. 21, p.25 Some Wild or Common Fragrant Plants , Series II, Vol. 22, p.103 Notes on …
Meeting: Life and Death on Little Ross
… and Death on Little Ross , by Kirkcudbright historian David Collin. The lecture explored in particular the history … storm in 1835, and local pressure eventually persuaded the Commissioners of the Northern Lights to build a lighthouse. … Alan Stevenson designed the lighthouse and the keepers’ accommodation and ancillary buildings. Both the principal …
Biography: James Gilchrist
… during his school holidays. His education appears to have been somewhat sporadic; however he was able to benefit … Gilchrist, 1860), are known, and the role he played in the compilation of papers by other authors is not fully … of the foremost lichenologists of his day; no doubt their communications in the first instance were of a professional …
Wood Pigot personal list: Wood Personal, Stranraer, 1843
… The modern location of the place is given in parentheses. Adair , Jas. Charlotte Street (Charlotte … - Mill Street is in an area which equates to modern-day Hanover Square Dixon , Mr George Street (George Street) Note: … Note: South side. Nat. Library copy has MS. Annotation 'Commercial Hotel' Murdoch , William Castle Street (Castle …