Darvel Memories

• The Jamieson Family

  by Valerie Large 10 December

  My grandmother Jean Cleland Jamieson grew up at the Braes, Darvel.  Her parents were Alexander...… 1 Comment

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  102 years of the "DarvelOld Folks" Outing

  by JOHN 21 June

  The "Trip" has been going for 102 years and the latest to Largs on June 15, 2011 prompted me...…

• The Weekly Supplement and Advertiser

  by JOHN 19 January

  An old newspaper has been recovered and I intend sharing some snippets from it. It is dated...… 5 Comments

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  Darvel School photo 1973

  by Ian Mcluckie 12 January

  Do you know anyone from the photo, it seems like ages from when the class photo was taken. Im told by Margaret kirkland its 1973, although i do remember the photo being taken i dont remember the date. If anyone else has any photo's please put them on…

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  Building an owlcote, 2008-2010

  29 November

  John Oliver has posted a pictorial record of Hugh Hendry's project to build an owlcote at Middlefield Farm.…

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  From Peat Bog to Conifer Forest: An Oral History of Whitelee, its Community and Landscape by Ruth Tittensor

  26 October

  "From Peat Bog to Conifer Forest: An Oral History of Whitelee, its Community and Landscape" tells how local people transformed the desolate peat-moorland of the secluded Whitelee Plateau into a 15,000-acre conifer forest.…

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  A (very) brief history of Darvel

  22 July

  Jim Morton says: I'm very ashamed to say that I remember going into the old picture house as a kid and finding reels of film of the lace queens. We destroyed them. My dad Rab Morton was the projectionist there in the 1950s.… 27 Comments