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Templates used to copy old communion tokens + 2 tokens
Templates used to copy old communion tokens + 2 tokens
Framed miniature of unknown man
Framed miniature of unknown man
Framed miniature of unknown man & woman
Framed miniature of unknown man & woman
Pew numbers from Free Kirk, Dalry
Pew numbers from Free Kirk, Dalry
Acknowledgement to Mary Templeton from HM the Queen Mother '39
Acknowledgement to Mary Templeton from HM the Queen Mother
Glass fronted colour photo of an unidentified soldier
Glass fronted colour photo of an unidentified soldier
Communion Tokens
Communion Tokens celebrating 350th anniversary 11/3/1990
Dux medal
Dux medal 1873 awarded to John McKay
Dux Medal
Dux Medal undated awarded to Jane McMillan
Dux Medal
Dux Medal 1874 awarded to Margaret Mackay
Photo frames, wallet type green leather, Edwardian couple?
Photo frames, wallet type green leather, Edwardian couple?
Handkerchiefs
Handkerchiefs 2, won by Mrs Mccutcheon for baking, 1955
pH Testing Kit
pH Testing Kit
Medal awarded to Thomas Bell Lamloch 1885
Medal awarded to Thomas Bell Lamloch 1885
Forde Medal – Carsphairn Bowling Club
Forde Medal – Carsphairn Bowling Club
Mitchell Medal – Carsphairn Bowling Club
Mitchell Medal – Carsphairn Bowling Club
Drinking Vessel
Drinking Vessel, belonging ot Sir Robert Grierson of Lagg (responsible for for the persecution of the covenanters from 1660 to 1685, from Garryhorn Farm.)
Bag of coins
Bag of coins
Bus tokens
Bus tokens, several on string, 1990
Quoit
Quoit
Metal fixing for drawer found at Lagwyne Cottage
Metal fixing for drawer found at Lagwyne Cottage c 1790
Newsletter 120
An Appreciation (Joyce Hunter Blair); A Carsphairn Mystery; The milk clipping; The Pig.
Newsletter 119
The Future of Carsphairn Heritage Group; Punch-up at Greenhead!!!; Another election (1784); Carsphairn Field Trip.
Newsletter 118
Our continuing story of Carsphairn’s Huts; The Cremation of Ramsay’s Hut; The Lorg.
Newsletter 117
Turner’s Holiday hut at the Greenwell of Scotland 1950’s; Chairman’s Report for 2016; Of Huts and Holidays; The Hut; Holidays in the Hut.
Newsletter 116
The Tour of Britain 2016; The Glenkens Canal; The Great Storm and Power Cut of 1998-99; Baling at Marbrack in the 70’s.
Newsletter 115
The Fiddler's Bridge; Report on the season; The Willy-Willy on Carlin's Cairn; John Mackay of Carsphairn and Ballantrae; Maggie McCrae Mackay.
Newsletter 114
Local Tales and Legends and Spooky Stories; From our Photographic Files; Letters from Carsphairn; Jenny wi’ the airn teeth.
Newsletter 113
Chairman’s Report for 2015; The Galloway Railways revisited Part1.
Newsletter 112
Famous Glenkens People – Robert Milligan; Answers to Quiz; Was Rev C.H. Dick ever United Free minister in Carsphairn?; “Who are You?”.
Newsletter 111
General Sir Alexander Kennedy Clark 1782 – 1865; Now Where is That in the Carsphairn area? (Quiz); G61 to DG6.
Newsletter 110
The Pre-1815 Church Building; Extracts from Kirkcudbright Advertiser Friday, January 18th , 1867 - Carsphairn Sabbath School.
Newsletter 109
Chairman’s Report for 2014; Carsphairn Church Communion 1934; Another Carsphairn connection to a Great War VC; Memories of Glenrosa, Carsphairn.
Newsletter 108
The Scotch Draper; Peat Cutting; The first Carsphairn casualty in World War 1; Halfmark Conventicle.
Newsletter 107
Rev John Semple of Carsphairn Part 2; Air Crew Remembered Campbell McIntosh McMillan; The Braes O’ Glenlee
Newsletter 106
2014 exhibition; Carsphairn Shepherds Society; Rev John Semple; Rainfall, Galloway News 1915.
Newsletter 105
The Winter of 2013/14 in Carsphairn; Mary Timney – The Road to the Gallows by Jane Baldwin; A visit to Brochloch; Carsphairn 1745; Obituary Rev John Miller; Titbits from The Galloway News 24 December 1960 Rural Round: Carsphairn
Newsletter 104
2013 season; Annual General Meeting; Walk to the Leadmines; Catstrand Talk; All the threes - Significant events in Carsphairn from 1723 to 2013; 1913 Carsphairn Show - extract from the Galloway News; World War 1 1914 - 1918
Newsletter 103
Monumental Inscriptions Update; Carsphairn Show; Conventicle near the Palfern Burn, Clatteringshaws, Sunday April 28th 2013; The Coronation Celebrations Carsphairn news reported in the Galloway News on 6th June 1953; Memories of Carsphairn. John…
Newsletter 102
The Man’s The Gowd for a’ That; Extracts - Galloway News (16 June 1958), Carsphairn Road Improvement, Carsphairn Parish Church Kirk Session minute book (22 September 1932), Kirkcudbright Advertiser (June 8, 1900), Piece in the Kirkcudbrightshire…
Newsletter 101
Chairman’s Report 2012, given at the Annual General Meeting on 5th December 2012; Walking the Galloway Hills in the 1930s; Janet and Her Web (from Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal Nov 9th 1833, p.328); Lag's Bed; 2013 Exhibition.
Newsletter 100
Review of past 99 editions.
Newsletter 99
List of Heads of Households, Carsphairn Parish in 1736; Some Stories Behind Carsphairn Show; Wee Tam’s First Day at the Kirk.
Newsletter 98
The 2012 exhibition -The best yet?; Carsphairn Church Matters; A Carsphairn Centenarian; Those boots were made for walking (apologies to Nancy Sinatra); Carsphairn Heritage Centre 20th Anniversary.
Newsletter 97
Carsphairn Heritage Group AGM, 18th November 2011, Chairman’s Report; 2011 Exhibition; newspaper articles from Miss Diana Lawrence; The Ascent of Cairnsmoor by three old men in March 1890. Composed by Rev James Mather (Minister of the United Free…
Newsletter 96
Shiel of Castlemaddie Bothy; A Landscape Full of Secrets; Extract from the Report of the Proceedings at the Institution of “The Muir Scholars’ prizes Fund” in connection with the Free Endowed School Dalry (Thursday 16th August 1866); Celtic Crosses;…
Newsletter 95
My Mackay Family Roots; Type Cast; Woodhead Dog Cemetery?; The Shiel of Castlemaddie; My Search for the Hope Family (part 2); Recent Local Place Names
Newsletter 94
My Search for the Hope Family (Part 1); Shiel of Castlemaddie; Carsphairn Reminiscences 2 (1940).
Newsletter 93
75th Anniversary of Carsphairn Women’s Rural Institute; Obituary Rhoda Campbell; Buses by Joyce Hunter Blair; Walk on the Wild Side by Ruth Williams; Names of local features by Anna Campbell.
Newsletter 92
Chairman’s Report for 2010; Marie Mackay’s Earliest Reminiscences of Carsphairn from outbreak of WWII and evacuation; Carsphairn Church (appeal form David Richmond); Mr David Kirk and the Galloway Power Scheme.
Newsletter 91
Heritage Centre Quiz; Carsphairn Captured on Camera 1885-2010; Miss Ida Hay McMillan; Stroanfreggan Walk (July 16 2010) by Robin Ade; Evacuees in Carsphairn; A Kidnapped Lass of Galloway by Ned Maxwell.
Newsletter 90
Lt Colonel John Clark Kennedy M.C. 1919-2010, An Appreciation; Anniversaries; Jamieson House; The late C. E. Stewart, Carsphairn, Portrait of a Rural Postman; Carsphairn Golf Course; From the History of Galloway, Volume I, published 1841; Corsefairne…
Newsletter 89
Chairman’s Report 2009; Some Gaelic Place-Names along the southern section of the pack road (between Carnavel and Polmaddy) in Carsphairn Parish; The experiences of a Land Girl.
Newsletter 88
From the chairman – Carsphairn Coming Home Exhibition; Carsphairn Golf Club; The Myth of Tarmacadam; Plane Crash; Supply of Coal and Meal to Poor; My Flight to South Africa by Sally Gilroy; Cold Comfort by Sue Wiseman.
Newsletter 87
2009 exhibition; Mid season report; Narrow escape from drowning and intrepid conduct in Carsphairn; A Carsphairn Lass – recollections of Betty McNally; Furmiston, Carsphairn the 120th anniversary of the Jubilee of John Harper.
Newsletter 86
Carsphairn Coming Home; Furmiston Commemoration Walk & Celebration; Extract from the Dumfries and Galloway Standard, Supply of Coal and Meal to Poor; Conventicle at Marscalloch; A Welsh emigrant’s voyage to America in 1887.
Newsletter 85
Chairman’s Report – 2008 AGM; Kale, Cakes, Cures and the Credit Crunch; One Day Conference at Catstrand Saturday 9th May 2009; Newspaper clippings – Pairs Bowling Tournament, 1960 and WRI; The Newsletter; The Bardennoch Hill Walk; Stewards (appeal).
Newsletter 84
Reflections of the Chair – by Agnes Holden; More Jamieson Letters; A Parable for 2008; Some Names in Carsphairn and their meaning; Carsphairn Mutual Improvement Society.
Newsletter 83
A Cure from the Archives; The Fiddlers Brig by Jim McNae; The Jamieson letters; New Book Information; More Tales from The Barber’s Chair – Strange Gadgets, Strange Beliefs.
Newsletter 82
Kail, Cakes and Cures – Our Kitchen Heritage, the 2008 exhibition; Stroanfreggan Bowling Club – The Beginnings; Tales for the Barber’s Chair; Quentin McAdam of Craigengillan d. 1805 (letters); That Round The World Flying Trip in 1922, The Last Word;
Newsletter 81
2007 AGM Report; Carsphairn U.P. Church Christmas Treat; Cross Keys Inn, Carsphairn; Remembrance Day 2007; The Glencairn Memorial Book
Newsletter 80
The 2007 Season; Cricket Match in 2008???; Carsphairn Mutual Improvement Society; The Dundeugh Birtwhistles; The winning sermon; The Autumn Buffet, September 2007; A Grocery List from 1803; The Seaton Family.
Newsletter 79
Update on our 2007 season’s activities; The Campbell Family; Extract from Dumfries and Galloway Standard of June 10th 1914 (Dust Nuisance at Carsphairn); Advert: The Quaint and The Curious (A quiz by Sandy Gilchrist); Donation of Bench by Mr & Mrs…
Newsletter 78
Carsphairn – The Sporting Life; Other People’s Heritage; More Cricket Results; A school game; An adventure on Carsphairn Curling Pond.
Newsletter 77
The Chairman’s Report at the 2006 AGM; Cricket at Carsphairn; Appeal for ‘Carsphairn – The Sporting Life’; Quentin McAdam of Craigengillan d. 1805; Carsphairn Cricket Club
Newsletter 76
The 2006 season; Autumn Buffet supper; Campbell McIntosh McMillan (Flt. Sgt) 1914-1945; Carsphairn Total Abstinence Society; The Rhinns of Kells (excerpt)
Newsletter 75
2006 Update; Advert: Autumn Buffet Supper; Window Tax: Waterhead and Lagwyne; The Killing Times – A Tour Around the Sites; Two Deaths in the Killing Times; Notices: AGM and The Stewards’ Lunch.
Newsletter 74
The Killing Times in the Glenkens; Have you ever seen a Carsphairn Red?; Round the World Flight Attempt in 1922, Part III; Notice: Guide to the Sites of the Covenanters; Carved sandstone slab found in Carsphairn; Answers to questions set by a…
Newsletter 73
Chairman’s Report on 2005 AGM in November; Carsphairn Parish Church Sunday School 1895; Round the World Flight Attempt in 1922 – Part 2; World War II at the AGM last November.
Newsletter 72
The Carsphairn Heritage Map; The Galloway Words Competition continued; Christmas Shopping; Round the World Flight Attempt in 1922; Notices: World War II at the AGM AGM; N(ice) try by Dalmellington curlers; Bells Bridge by Joe Dunthorne.
Newsletter 71
'Postman’s Walk’ by John Herries McCulloch; It’s a Tough Language; Ownership of Carsphairn from 1509; Notice:Autumn Buffet Supper; The Lorg Conventicle.
Newsletter 70
Ownership of Carsphairn from 1509; More of that Wise Wo-man; Identifying a mystery object; Galloway words – answers; Heritage Centre Visits; Notice - Lorg Conventicle; A Poetic Family History Search.
Newsletter 69
Chairman’s Report on 2004; Precautions in an Emergency; The Mutual Improvement Society, Woodhead Mine, Carsphairn 1849-1850; How good is your language.
Newsletter 68
Rhoda Rugg (introduction); Old Schools and Schoolmasters in the Stewartry, Carsphairn; A Visit to Craigengillan Wednesday 18 August 2004; Notice: AGM; The Buffet Supper; A713 Tourist route.
Newsletter 67
New Iron Field in Scotland; Trip to Carsphairn in 1888; Notice: A Visit to Craigengillan; Australia 2004; Sue Wiseman – A Carsphairn Resident; Notice: Autumn Buffet Supper; In Praise of the Glenkens by James McWhir; Notice: CD Rom Streams of the…
Newsletter 66
The Clark Memorandum Book; The addition of the surname Kennedy; Notice: Spring Buffet; ‘First Aid’; ‘Grit in the Eye’; Review from the Gallovidian Annual 1923; A letter from Waterloo 26th June 1815; Rejoicings at Carsphairn – Coming of Age of Lt…
Newsletter 65
Report from AGM; Jump on the Banned Wagon; Charles Wilson 1796-1872; Memories of Dundeugh, 1937 by Kenneth Dodgson.
Newsletter 64
Visitor survey; We are Survivors (For those born before 1940); East Galloway Sketches; Woodhead Mine in 1888; Notices: AGM, SCAN website; comments from Visitor’s Book.
Newsletter 63
Memories of Coronation Day 2nd June 1953; Glenkens Schools Over the Centuries;Tribute to Charles Cathcart ; The Knockgray Burial Ground by Colonel John Clark Kennedy; newspaper clippings : Consecration of the Cemetery at Knockgray and Funeral of…
Newsletter 62
Ten Tears On – A Celebration; The Visitor’s Book 2002; The last excerpt from Alexander McKay on his days at school in Carsphairn 1840s-50s; Carsphairn War Memorial; Notice: Postcards of Carsphairn; Historic Church Ceremony at Carsphairn; Notice:…
Newsletter 61
Chairman’s Report on 2002; Treasure in these Hills – or the Musings of a Metal-Detecting Minister; “Glenkens Schools over the Centuries” The Book Launch in Carsphairn; More on Alexander Mckay on his days in school in Carsphairn 1840s-1840s;
Newsletter 60
Alexander Mckay on his days in school in Carsphairn 1840s-1840s; Stroanfreggan Reunion – August 2002; Notice: AGM; Stroanfreggan School – letters from the 1950s.
Newsletter 59
The Happiest Days of Your Life; “Fragments of the History of Alexander McKay”; Notice: Volunteers Week 2002; Newspaper clipping: Glenkens trail is an education; Notice: The Heritage Group Summer Visit; 1848 Ordnance Survey Notebooks; Notice: new…
Newsletter 58
The 2002 Exhibition; Gerald and Thomas; Notice: Local History Week; 2002 Exhibition The creator’s story; The Tenth Anniversary of Carsphairn Heritage Centre; Notice: Glenkens School Concert.
Newsletter 57
Chairman’s Address at the Annual General Meeting 2001; Local History Week; Minorities & Memories, Survivals and Extinction sin Scotland and Western Europe; Notice: Wanted; Sewing Machine Hints; Filming the McAdam Story; 2001 A ‘Watch this Space’…
Newsletter 56
Notice: AGM; Alexander Frederick McAdam of Craigengillan born 10/10/1864 died 08/01/1901; The Great Carsphairn Drought; Local Places surveyed in 1848;
Newsletter 55
The Missing Cat; Donation Number One; Old MacDonald Had A …; Notice: AGM & Heritage Group Productions; Donation Number Two; Notice: Stewards Party; “Petticoat Rule – Women of Carsphairn”; Appeal: The Bakers of Carsphairn.
Newsletter 54
The Heritage Centre; The Herds’ Dance; Notices: Stewards, Spring Buffet Supper; The Census; Foot and Mouth Disease; Notice: death of Jean Abel; 2000 Visitors Book.
Newsletter 53
Chairman's Report 2000; Holiday Presents; Poem by William Findlay Dickson.
Newsletter 52
Notice: AGM; A Generation of MacMillans 1874-1965; U.S.And THEM; More music in Carsphairn area by Mrs Peggy Hutchinson.
Newsletter 51
Spring Buffet; Visit to Eastriggs Heritage Centre; Carsphairn and the Boer War; Notice: Walks in 2000; poem; Snippet from the Diary.
Newsletter 50
The Visitor’s Book; Notice: Spring Buffet Supper; A Fireside Conversation; Another one in the series ‘A Thousand Things You didn’t want to Know’; This year’s exhibition at the Heritage Centre; Notice: Heritage Group Outing.
Newsletter 49
Chairman’s report from the 1999 AGM; Here’s another one among “A thousand things you didn’t want to know”; Further recollections of the Concert in Lagwyne Hall after WWII by Nan Gibson; Appeal: newsletter contribution.
Newsletter 48
The Concert at Lagwyne Hall Carsphairn just after WWII; Notice: AGM; Bin there, done it all; The Annual Walk – Bardennoch Hill; Mysterious Occurrent at Carsphairn; The jars of Carsphairn.
Newsletter 47
Hints for the Home; Notice: Stewards Lunch; So the Americans have never forgotten the Scots village; Notice: The Annual Walk; Book Review - “Exploring Galloway” by Mike Ansell; Loch Doon excerpt: The River Doon by Wilson MacArthur; Notice: AGM.
Newsletter 46
The 1999 Exhibition; Notice: The Spring Buffet Supper; Recollections of Hydro Electricity Coming to Carsphairn by Willie Dickson; Place Names – Changes Over the Centuries; The Magical Rowan Tree; Sheep may Safely Braise; Traffic in Carsphairn during…
Newsletter 45
Figuring it Out; Notices: new index; Chairman’s Report – 1998 Annual General Meeting; The Lending Library.
Newsletter 44
Notice: AGM; Summer in the Hills; The Annual Walk – Knockgray; Quintin McAdam’s Letters.
Newsletter 43
Notice: The Annual Walk; The Valley called Barbarusle; Notice: Heritage Group Productions; Ordnance Survey Notebook October 1847; Leadmine Walk at Black Craig; Outing to Woodhead Village and Mine (poem).
Newsletter 42
Exhibition this year “All About Ewe”; Notice: Wanlockhead; History, Heritage and Nostalgia; Notice: Summer Outing to Black Craig Lead Mine; Births, Marriages & Deaths at Woodhead Leadmine; Notice: Annual Walk; Through the Door – Carsphairn in Poetry.