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Displaying 41 - 50 of 1961 itemsBiography: Duncan Adamson, M.A. 1936–2007
… III, LXXXII, p152 Duncan Adamson was born in Dumfries to a well known family. After education at Dumfries Academy … on the Hearth Tax in Dumfriesshire and parts of Galloway, which were prepared while he still lived in Linlithgow. … and also various articles in the Transactions with the accompanying off-print booklets, on Ann Hill, the Kirkpatrick …
Meeting: Excavating the Galloway Viking Hoard
… over 100 members and guests of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society gathered to hear a lecture by … removed. In all 22 silver arm rings and ingots were found together with a large Anglo-Saxon silver cross — the largest …
Meeting: European Drove Roads
… Roads of Britain when she travelled in stages from Skye to Smithfield Market, London, on horseback. This time her … past and present, and covers 125,000 km, while the railway system measures only 15,000 km, proof positive of the … to employ two or three staff to check on drove roads and compile documentation to ensure that drove roads are …
Meeting: The saving of the City of Adelaide
… has been saved from being broken up a number of times due to luck and her significance. The ship was designed to carry passengers and cargo purely between Great Britain … and the State of South Australia, which was run as a commercial operation, not taking convicts. She operated this …
… of the current season was by Professor Margaret Elphinstone and was titled The History and Landscape of Galloway in the Fiction of S R Crockett . Margaret introduced her … trade that centred on the Isle of Man. He was a regular visitor to Auchencairn, and this section of coast first …
… erudite and well-researched paper on Dr John Hutton and the Manse of Caerlaverock to Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society on Members' … legends, including the ghost of Caerlaverock Manse, Burns' visit to the manse, and Sir Walter Scott's Mount Sharon in …
Meeting: Excavations at Tongland Abbey
… and their guests attended the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society's annual Members’ Night … which had enabled his small group of volunteers to put together the tools and equipment they needed in order to …
Meeting: Scottish Birds in Mongolia
… The annual meeting of Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society held in Galloway 2014–2015 took … eagle feed on chunky marmots, a mammal that huddles together underground in winter for warmth. Other sources of …
Biography: James Williams
… Industrial Chemist and Antiquarian Born 27 February 1944 at Stourport-on-Severn Died 27 November 2009 in Dumfries, aged … and human history of the region of Dumfries and Galloway for almost 50 years. During this time he safeguarded and … of the region and made it available to both the local community and academic interests nationally and …
… The James Williams Memorial Lecture was chosen to serve as the final meeting of Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society in 2010. The … Vance, cockney singer and dancer, received top billing and visited the area in the 1860s and 1870s. Chang, the Chinese …