Syllabus 2010 - 2011
14th September ‘Mearns Mills: Corn to Cotton’.
“The story of water powered mills in Mearns Parish
and how they drove the early development of the area.”
Although Mearns was a rural parish, it had a variety of mills serving both farms and industry.
Find out where the Mearns mills were located and what they did,
including lint mills, grain mills, waulk mills and threshing mills
Stuart Nisbet
and how they drove the early development of the area.”
Although Mearns was a rural parish, it had a variety of mills serving both farms and industry.
Find out where the Mearns mills were located and what they did,
including lint mills, grain mills, waulk mills and threshing mills
Stuart Nisbet
5th October ‘Nae Smell, Nae taste’
“Celebrating 151 years of the Loch Katrine scheme.”
Find out why and how it came about and the link to the Gorbals Gravitational Company
which was responsible for the construction of the reservoirs which form the centre
piece of today's Dams to Darnley Country Park
William B Black
Find out why and how it came about and the link to the Gorbals Gravitational Company
which was responsible for the construction of the reservoirs which form the centre
piece of today's Dams to Darnley Country Park
William B Black
2nd November ‘The Riverside Museum’
“The development of Glasgow 's new Transport Museum.”
The Riverside Museum: Glasgow's new Museum of Transport which will Open next Spring
The museum will be a wonderful showcase for the Scotland's engineering achievements
and for the Scottish transport industry
A Member of the Project Team
The Riverside Museum: Glasgow's new Museum of Transport which will Open next Spring
The museum will be a wonderful showcase for the Scotland's engineering achievements
and for the Scottish transport industry
A Member of the Project Team
7th December ‘Pantomime in Scotland’
“Your other National Theatre.”
An illustrated talk on the history and development of Scottish pantomime,
from the nineteenth-century Harlequinade to the present day.
Paul Maloney
from the nineteenth-century Harlequinade to the present day.
Paul Maloney
2011
11th January ‘The Paddle Steamer Waverley’
“In the Wake of a Legend.”
A light hearted history of the Paddle Steamer Waverley, covering her early years,
but focussing on the ship's Millenium Refurbishment to the present day.
Gavin Stewart
1st February ‘The First Homecoming’
“The Great Burns Festival of 1844”
The great Burns Festival of 1844 attended by 3000 people in Ayr and Alloway
celebrated the return to Scotland of the poet's sons. Professor John Wilson
(alias 'Christopher North'), the influential literary critic who played a major part in the festival,
studied at the Manse of Mearns under the supervision of the Rev .Dr George McLatchie,
minister of the Parish Kirk at Mearnskirk
Tom Barclay
The great Burns Festival of 1844 attended by 3000 people in Ayr and Alloway
celebrated the return to Scotland of the poet's sons. Professor John Wilson
(alias 'Christopher North'), the influential literary critic who played a major part in the festival,
studied at the Manse of Mearns under the supervision of the Rev .Dr George McLatchie,
minister of the Parish Kirk at Mearnskirk
Tom Barclay
1st March ‘The Clydebank Blitz’
“The 70th Anniversary”
March 2011 marks the 70th Anniversary of the blitz. Learn of the preparations for war,
of the events of 13th and 14th March and the aftermath.
The talk will be fully illustrated with digital images, many of them from Clydebank Library's
extensive archive.
David Carson
March 2011 marks the 70th Anniversary of the blitz. Learn of the preparations for war,
of the events of 13th and 14th March and the aftermath.
The talk will be fully illustrated with digital images, many of them from Clydebank Library's
extensive archive.
David Carson
5th April * ‘The Man who saved Scotland’
“The story of Duncan Forbes of Culloden.”
Learn how this almost forgotten, convivial, learned man of action became
Lord President of the Court of Session, ensured that Scotland would survive
as a distinctive nation and earned a price on his head from the army of
Charles Edward Stewart.
Lord President of the Court of Session, ensured that Scotland would survive
as a distinctive nation and earned a price on his head from the army of
Charles Edward Stewart.
Iain McGillivray
* This meeting will be preceded by the AGM.