Photo credit: Mostly Ghostly Investigations A year ago today, we ventured forth on a mission. . . A brief history first; setting the scene: To the North of Bankend, and easily visible from the road, sits [.....]
Here's a photo of Phyllis' cottage (remains of), for anyone else who has yet to find it! It's really just the fireplace and chimney breast that remain, but we'd still like to see it! Thanks to Nic Coombey [.....]
Nic Coombey, Coastwise coordinator of the Coastwise project has been in touch to ask us to publicise this unique event. It sounds like it's going to be really interesting, and a fantastic opportunity to tell the project as much local [.....]
Thank you Tom Brown for sharing these stunning photos of the Lanyard Wood just before Kenneth Bank. He says it's "Well worth a walk through before the Bluebells fade". Isn't nature absolutely beautiful! Do send us your photographs [.....]
I always remember my Grandma (from Edinburgh) telling me that if she had 'nothing to do' one day, she would jump on a bus to see where it took her! In a similar spirit, we took the 6A [.....]
If you haven't already, get yourself down to Glencaple Quay to see the wonderful tall ship La Malouine before she sets sail for Ireland at the end of the month! Roy Kerr, captain of the ship, will be [.....]
"Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius – but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia… When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods and wander into the midst [.....]
"In 1640, Caerlaverock Castle came under a prolonged and bitter siege from a Covenanter army. Meet the covenanters and discover more about the weeks of assault that reduced it to the ruins you see today." 23rd and 24th [.....]
Mute swan cygnet photo by Alex Hillier Chiffchaff by Ray Cottrell Summer is here at last and the reserve is alive with birdsong, chiffchaffs, blackcaps, willow, sedge, reed and garden warblers are all back from a [.....]
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, [.....]
Dumfries and Galloway Council have an online page dedicated to the Core Paths in the region. One of their routes is the ‘moderate’ 2 mile stretch from Castle Corner to Caerlaverock Castle. A printable pdf of the map, [.....]
A great way to get out and about, explore new areas, learn new skills and take part in 'a sport that is fun, adventurous and totally absorbing'! Solway is a small friendly club in the south west of [.....]
The inaugural meeting of the Wednesday Wheelers was held on the third Wednesday in November 1998 with the aim of meeting each week for a bite to eat and a chat, not necessarily about bikes. There are no [.....]
