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Darvel Memories

    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.…

Latest Comments on Darvel Memories

  • linda martin

    RE: A (very) brief history of Darvel

    im trying to find some information/book that my dad robert martin had years ago. it was about (or... more

  • Leon Morton Burgess

    RE: A (very) brief history of Darvel

    Hello Alexander,  Yes it would be interesting to discuss our Morton's of Broomhill... more

  • Alexander Morton

    RE: A (very) brief history of Darvel

    Re- Leon Morton many of my relatives lived in Broomhill Farm. Interested in a chat about them.Sandy more

  • Agnes Wilson

    RE: A (very) brief history of Darvel

    In answer to John Oliver's query re Wm Smith & Euphemia Whyte. This is one of the brief family... more

  • Leon Morton Burgess

    RE: A (very) brief history of Darvel

    My Morton direct line back was connected to the Morton's of Broomhill Farm. I have a copy of a... more

    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.… 22 Comments

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