Currie and District Local History Society

Syllabus.

2011-2012

 

Monday 3rd.
Oct

 “John Ray's Caricatures”

Sheila Szatkowski, Writer and Historian

Monday 17th. Oct



Roslin Powder Mills-How gunpowder was made


 

Mary Winnie Stevenson, Roslin Heritage Society

 

 

 

Monday 31st.
Nov.

John Tweedie Memorial Lecture- Sir William Davidson and nephew George Watson of Curriehill House


Nick Hyde , Clan Davidson Society

 

Monday 14th. Nov.


History of the Museum of Communications (Scotland)

 

Professor Tom Stevenson, MOC(S), Burntisland

Monday 28th. Nov.

Isobel Wylie Hutchison- Arctic Traveller from Kirkliston

Peter D. Cowlishaw, CDLHS

Monday 12th. Dec

Preserving Scotland's Railway History

Alan Young, Scottish Preservation Society

Monday 9th. Jan.

Researching Scottish War Memorials, with some surprising results

Malcolm Fergusson, CDLHS

Monday 23rd. Jan.

The Cunningham Local Tenant Farmers

Alasdair MacDonald

Monday 6th.
Feb.

Battle of Prestonpans

Arran P. Johnston,Executive Trustee Battle of Prestonpans (1745) Heritage Trust

 

 

Monday 20th. Feb.

"You'll have had your tea?"

Hamish Coghill ,Honorary President CDLHS

Monday 5th.
Mar

Penicuik House

Sir Robert Clerk, Penicuik House Project

Monday 19th. Mar.

"The Annual General Meeting and Final Fling"

Details to be announced

All meetings are held in the Gibson Craig Hall in Currie.

on Mondays at 7.30.

 

Visitors welcome.

 

Please contact Mr Peter D. Cowlishaw (0131 449 2520) for further details.