Caerlaverock History
Do you have any interesting stories or photographs about the Caerlaverock area? Know a little about the history, happenings or activities from time gone by? Newspaper cuttings? Stories passed down the generations? Or if you have some old photos you’d be happy to share, please get in touch.
We’re more than happy for you to write up things in your own words, in fact we’re actively looking for submissions and ideas as well as photos. It can be about any aspect of Caerlaverock History.
Email us at info@caerlaverock.org.uk or get in touch through our Facebook Page or with one of the Association who will be able to point you in the right direction! (see the Contact page)
Caerlaverock Locations Help
Paul Mahoney, who visited Caerlaverock recently with his wife Barbara and cousin, also Barbara asks if anyone can assist him with the following locations: "On our visit we tried to find actual addresses or at [.....]
Caerlaverock History – with photos of the Cowans
Main image showing James Cowan (Paul's Grandad), John Cowan, Agnes Monteith and Elizabeth Dougan (New Abbey and Mouswald). We met up with the lovely Paul and Barbara Mahoney and Paul's recently found cousin (equally lovely!) [.....]
Come for coffee and a chat about Caerlaverock history
Paul Mahoney (his dad was Robert Cowan) is coming to Caerlaverock soon! He told us that he will arrange to be at the WWT Café on Wednesday 28th March between 10.30am and 12 noon-ish if [.....]
Caerlaverock Castle laid bare
Many thanks to Richard Campbell for bringing this to our attention: Archaostef published this fascinating look at Caerlaverock Castle on Twitter which was processed from @EnvAgencyGeomat #LiDAR (an aerial laser kit) data . She has [.....]
Bakehouse, Wellington Street, Glencaple, Caerlaverock – a response!
Map (above) of Glencaple/ Caerlaverock reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland Peter John Mclean Roberts was looking for some help from knowledgeable Caerlaverock locals (see previous post here) and asked the [.....]
Long Lost Relatives of Glencaple Schoolteacher Reunited
Main picture: Robb decendents reunited 25th February 2018. Back row Susan, John and Elizabeth, front row Ann Many thanks to John Roberts who sent us this information and photos from his research into the history [.....]
Bakehouse, Wellington Street, Glencaple, Caerlaverock
Can anyone help Peter John Mclean Roberts? He is looking for some Caerlaverockans who have local knowledge, and has been in touch to ask the following question: "On 1891 Scotland Census my great grandfather James [.....]
History of Burnside (formerly Glencaple House)
Many thanks to Joady Earle for forwarding this fascinating record of the research she has compiled of her house! We're sure the information, maps and photographs will be of interest to us all in Glencaple [.....]
The Cowans of Caerlaverock…
Robert Paul Mahoney [13.9.1947] (or Paul, as everyone knows him) has been in touch via e-mail. He has been researching his ancestors for the past six months and found that many of them moved to [.....]
Character of the People in Caerlaverock Parish – 1835
Thank you to Sue Greig for sending us this extract from the Caerlaverock Parish Statistical Account dated 1835 - a glowing report! Character of the People in Caerlaverock Parish The moral character of the [.....]
Graham Roberts on ITV Border Life (video)
Did anyone watch our very own Graham Roberts of Kenneth Bank on ITV Border Life, being interviewed about the archives in the Ewart Library, Dumfries last Tuesday (12th December 2017)? Don’t worry – you can [.....]
Merse erosion and regeneration over the years
Tom Brown has been rooting around in his archives and has sent us this fascinating photo. Taken in July 1961, it shows Mr Langley Roberts (Caerlaverock NNR) and a Mr WJ Smith: both with [.....]
Triops – a video and some info!
Meet the triops, an endangered species - a 3 eyed 'tadpole shrimp' that can trace its history back more than two hundred million years! i.e. during the Triassic period... before the dinosaurs! Believed to have [.....]
Vintage Motor Cycle photographs (and an incredible, old video)
A big thank you to Colin Campbell from Dumfries who came down to Glencaple last weekend to see and photograph the Vintage Motor Cycle Rally which started off from the Quay End. Great photos and [.....]
Photos and video of Vintage Motor Cycles
Many thanks to David Buoy for sending us his photos of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club of Great Britain rally at the weekend! You can see David's video of the motor cycles leaving Glencaple beneath [.....]
Vintage Motor Cycle Run at Glencaple – video
We were delighted to watch the Vintage Motor Cycle Club of Great Britain yesterday morning heading off from Glencaple Quay, before they rode through Caerlaverock on their way towards the Annandale Distillery (a good flat [.....]
Weekly Steam Packet
Sue Greig kindly shared this advert from 1823, in times when Glencaple Quay was known as the 'Port of Dumfries'... [Transcribed below] WEEKLY STEAM-PACKET, BETWEEN Dumfries, Whitehaven and Liverpool THE Public are respectfully informed, [.....]
‘Dumfriesshire to Let’ 1886
Thanks to Sue Greig for sharing this with us - an 1886 advertisment for the let of the 'modern construction' Rose Villa, now Nith View, in Glencaple, Caerlaverock. Note that, along with many other desirable [.....]
Glencaple – in song!
Ian and Brenda Craik attended the recent fundraising concert at the Barbour Hall in Glencaple, and it reminded them that they have a song on CD written by family member Hamish Guerrini about the history [.....]
Caerlaverock football team – 1960/70s
With many thanks to Alec Armstrong for lending us an envelope full of fabulous photos and other documents to be included in the 'Then and Now' display at the upcoming Caerlaverock NNR 60th Anniversary celebrations [.....]
Historic images of fishing at Caerlaverock
Karl Savege sent us these fabulous pictures of fishing in the past on the Nith, to be included in the NNR 60th Open Day 'then and now' display. Thank you Karl - we agree, it [.....]