May I start by thanking the few of you who have taken the trouble to come and say how much you have enjoyed the blog posts, so I thought it was incumbent upon me to sit down and write another! I had thought about writing about politics, but the only…
What appears to be many moons ago, I did write a book about the history of Dalgarven Mill, and its eventual transformation through the Manpower Services Commission exercise into the really rather nice set of historical buildings that you see today. Two things have happened recently. The first thing that…
When Moira and I came to Dalry in 1973, we had hardly settled in when there was a loud knock at our imposing front door. On opening it, I found a dapper gentleman who introduced himself immediately as Bill Gorman, our local councellor: he welcomed us to his town and…
It is quite amazing that what you might think of as the family inheritance, either in terms of buildings, bricks, pieces of furniture or skills and interests, seldom go to where you think they might have. I always thought that, having been an architect, a teacher and someone who has…
Each year we, in common with all Scottish Charities, have our Annual Accounts approved and published by OSCR (Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator) so that the general public, or more importantly our donors and supporters, can see our annual income and expenditure, and who we are, in terms of…
