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Displaying 31 - 40 of 613 items… the many interesting memorials throughout the region, each one with an interesting history. Scotland has many monuments … bridge at Annan serves as a World War Two Memorial. The communion Table in Castle Douglas Church records the names … that the stained glass must be wholly visible and that visitors could request to see it. Now that Cummertrees …
… Kippford helped to secure the engagement. The Mary Rose was one of two new ships commissioned by Henry VIII, soon after … pictorial tour of inspection of the vessel. He revisited the site from which the Mary Rose was moved at … nails for fastening the planks of a ship to the timbers), coins, an anchor, rigging and bits of caulking. Computer …
Wood Pigot place list: Wood Places, Stranraer, 1843
… The modern location of the place is given in parentheses. Academy … of the extension of Lewis street leading to the road to Stoneykirk. Anne House Note: East side of Glenwell Street (2 … Roadway running parallel to shore on west side of map. Commercial Hotel (George Street) Note: South side. Nat. …
Meeting: Archaeology of Beer and Brewing
… grains and water; sugar and flavourings such as wormwood, dogwort, bog myrtle, have served as optional additions … There was a strainer from Mesopotamia; grinding stones, pestles and mortars from Africa; a quern from Skara … a field in which she claimed that more work needs to be done. … Rebecca Boyde (Archaeology Scotland) … Archaeology of …
… of James Hill, Surgeon in Dumfries . In the 1980s he completed a PhD on epidural haematoma, bleeding in the head. … name of Alexander Monro occupied the chair of Anatomy for 126 years. It was Alexander Monro, primus, in whose class … was the first to do that in modern times: this had been done by Galen , 2nd Century AD, but it had been forgotten. He …
Meeting: Maria Riddell — the Friend of Burns
… relied largely for source material on Sir Hugh Gladstone's Presidential Address to the Society in 1914. Burns' … first editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, when she visited Edinburgh in 1792. Burns warned his friend not to … and of parliamentary reform in Britain. Having much in common, she and Burns corresponded in 1792 and 1793. Late in …
Meeting: Fungi Folklore
… 20 November 2015 Duncan Ford, the Countryside Ranger for Hoddom and Kinmount Estate, gave the Society a fascinating … due to its hallucinogenic effects when eaten. The face of one figure is in the shape of a bee, which may refer to the sensations of flying and buzzing commonly experienced on consumption of this fungus. …
Meeting: Mary Timney, The Road to the Gallows, the story of Scotland's last public execution of a woman
… the power of her voice to create eerie atmosphere, told one of the best ghost stories they had ever heard. Yes, the speaker was that good. Members, most of them knowing the road in question, were … book, 'Mary Timney, The Road To The Gallows', which is recommended reading to anyone wishing to learn more of the …
… terminals are constructed from three parts, rather than one single casting as previously thought. The terminals of … Torc, suggesting that this was a traditional technology. Comparison of several different torcs showed how different methods of manufacture were used, including casting and the use …
… Introducing her subject, the speaker described how HM Factory … in work at HM Factory, Gretna based on the observation of ‘one who worked with them and watched them with a critical … were not perfect timekeepers and that factory managers complained that some were unaware of the value of the …