With many thanks to author, Barbara Henderson, who has been in touch to let us know about her new children's book (for around 8 - 13 age range) which commemorates the Siege of Caerlaverock in the year 1300! [.....]
Thanks to Tom Broon for this lockdown social history snippet!! "This is a picture taken on 2nd Jan 1991 at Phyllis Creek. You can clearly see lines of rocks and posts. They were covered over by accretion of [.....]
Caerlaverock Castle has featured on the BBC news website - see this link! Historic Environment Scotland have created this amazing architectural 3D model in order to have a detailed, digital record of the castle. You can access the [.....]
Thank you to Liz Anderson for sending us a large bundle of photos to scan - we will be posting them up in small batches, and on Facebook too - where people can tag people they know in [.....]
Christopher Earl, who originally comes from Dumfries, has been in touch: 'Hello hope everyone is safe and well during the present time . I am researching my twice great grandmother Isabella Currie who married John Jardine Coltart. (Thanks [.....]
With many thanks to Laura Cowan who has sent us some old photos of the area. Her family owned the hut just outside Glencaple [pictured above] and the other photos show the family walking in Glencaple along the [.....]
A little bird has sent us an email about an interesting article posted 21st Feb 2020 on the Scottish Field website - featuring photos with none other than Robbie Cowan in various manly poses, some Caerlaverock views, and [.....]
Diana Dickson has been in touch with us, wondering if anybody could help her in any way regarding her grandfather with Caerlaverock connections: "[He] was listed as being born at 4 Greenmill, Caerlaverock. He was born in 1906 [.....]
Heather Hadwick has been in touch. Her great grandmother, Catherine Currie, was born in Caerlaverock in 1851 and she wonders if she could find out exactly where... "My great grandmother Catherine was born in Caerlaverock, though not sure [.....]
Peter Quelch is assisting with a landscape history study around Caerlaverock Castle, and is seeking local knowledge. Following on from our recent post requesting information about a ford between Caerlaverock and New Abbey, Peter has some further questions [.....]
Peter Quelch has been in touch. He is assisting with a landscape history study around Caerlaverock Castle. He asks: I'm intrigued by old maps and documents which point towards not only a ford on the coastal road from [.....]
Graham Bates (from Cheshire) has been in touch again, following the great success of making contact with another member of the family through our website (for which he is most grateful)! He writes, "To further my research into [.....]
Thank you to Claire Clarke who has been in touch, "I've been trying to find out about the Bankend Mill that used to be here, and the history of the bridge - I was unsure whether the two [.....]
Shona Hart has left a comment on this 'Pictures of Old Bankend' article, (made with the photos Norman Brown handed in). - Can you help her with any knowledge of her great grandmothers? - Do you know anything [.....]
Fiona Sodha got in touch with us, as something caught her eye in the photo above (posted as part of a collection of pictures back in February 2019). Whilst searching for information about the Crosbie family in the [.....]
Many thanks to John Roberts who sent us a couple of old photos, with a couple of questions: Can anyone date them? The photo with the boy on the bicycle was a postcard, can anyone name him? He [.....]
Graham Bates emailed us to ask for any help with his family research back on 29th May 2018: "From the middle of the 19th century, my forebears have been located in Cheshire (via Liverpool). However, research reveals [.....]
It warmed the cockles of our hearts to receive this email from Karl Savege, with a photo from 2008... seems so long ago now somehow! "I thought this was an interesting photo of the quay end taken about [.....]
Thank you to John Roberts for sending this fascinating and comprehensive information (and images). This is a lot of work which we are sure will be appreciated by many! Read on: THE MCLEANS OF CAERLAVEROCK (1722 – 2019) [.....]
With many thanks to Tom Langlands who thought this might be of interest to this group. "Recently I was taking photographs in North Berwick and while wandering the graveyard of the old disused church there I came across [.....]
