Fascinating for the other stories and adverts of the era too, this newspaper article focuses on the ancient art of haaf netting in the Solway - the history, technique, the people and stories, the rewards and the dangers... [.....]
Following on from our first article taken from the late Ian Hamilton Junior's folder, here is the next newspaper cutting which may be of interest. I think we have got to grips with the scanning device, it took [.....]
With thanks to Tom Brown, we have been loaned a folder full of memorabilia which had been carefully collected and compiled by the late Ian Hamilton Junior. It is brimming with articles of local information, fishing and, in [.....]
Photo credit: Mostly Ghostly Investigations To the North of Bankend, and easily visible from the road, sits Isle Tower. Just a couple of miles south of Caerlaverock Castle, it has also been known as Greenhill Tower, [.....]
Can anyone tell us a little bit about this beautiful place we often pass on our travels around Caerlaverock? We were drawn by the lovely display of different daffodils... though on closer inspection, there appeared to be some [.....]
This fabulous fundraising cookbook was created about 16 years ago (possibly the year 2000) by the Caerlaverock and Glencaple Church Kirk Session (for the Organ Fund). It is full of tried and tested recipes handed down through generations [.....]
Thanks to Sue Greig & Rob Wells for this WRI booklet from a fair few years ago (possibly 1960s?). We've scanned it and published as a PDF file, just click here to view. (It's quite large so please [.....]
The lady bracing herself to hanging her washing in the blustery breeze is thought to be Martha Clark. The photograph was taken at Conheath Cottages in 1954. The washing posts were stationed on the merse in front [.....]
It seemed fitting to publish the report of this heroic rescue on the 100-year anniversary of the event of 5th March 1916. Following the interest surrounding our recent article from John Roberts about a Glencaple family history, he [.....]
We were delighted to receive this email today from Peter John Mclean Roberts. John moved (through business) from Liverpool to West Yorkshire in 1983. Maybe you remember the family, or have family history, information, stories and photographs of [.....]
From WRI’s booklet ‘Our History” (dated 1967): In 1746 Dumfries recovered from the Jacobite invasion and the town tried to improve the harbour. The Solway (estuary) and the Nith (river) had always been ‘difficult’ to navigate because [.....]
Weekly Steam Packet Between Dumfries, Whitehaven and Liverpool. The Public are respectfully informed, that the fast-sailing Steam Packet ALBION, Paul G. Panton, R.N. Commander, Will leave Liverpool for Glencaple Quay (the Port of Dumfries), on Wednesday the 18th [.....]
Angus MacKay 1812 – 1859 A memorial to to honour Queen Victoria’s piper was unveiled in 2010 at the spot where he was last seen alive on the banks of the River Nith just north of Glencaple (see [.....]
Author: Sue Greig These days residents of Caerlaverock Parish do their food-shopping in one of the many supermarkets in and around nearby Dumfries – or in the local village shop. But it wasn’t always the case. Until the [.....]
Author: Johnny Scott Republished from The Field, November 9, 2010. The River Nith, the seventh-longest in Scotland, starts life in the Carsphairn Hills of East Ayrshire, flowing through Nithsdale in Dumfries and Galloway until it spills into the Solway Firth [.....]
