Meetings 2011–12
All meetings, except those otherwise indicated, are held on Friday evenings in the Cumberland Street Day Centre, Dumfries, at 7.30 pm. Enter via Brooms Road Car Park.
7 October 2011
Annual General Meeting
Alexander Hall
Glencairn Parish in 1560
21 October 2011
George Heggarty (Research Associate, National Museums of Scotland)
Whim, pots, pans and people: the development of Scotland's industrial pottery
4 November 2011
Nic Coombey (Southern Upland Partnership)
Galloway and South Ayrshire Biosphere
18 November 2011
Valerie Reilly
Indigo — a blue to dye for
2 December 2011
James Williams Lecture
Professor Andrew Breeze
The Names of Rheged
CHRISTMAS BREAK
20 January 2012
Lt Col John Charteris, MBE, MC
A thousand years of the Charteris family
3 February 2012
Archie McConnell (McConnell Wood Products)
Woods and wood in Dumfries and Galloway around 1700 with special
reference to the Midsteeple, Dumfries
17 February 2012
Jim Henderson
The history and work of the River Nith Fisheries Board
2 March 2012
Members Night
16 March 2012
Chris Rollie
Robert Burns in England
31 March 2012
Saturday, 2.00 pm, in the
Parish Church Hall, St Mary's Street, Kirkcudbright (next to the bowling green)
David Fleetwood (Historic Scotland)
The Built Heritage of Dumfries and Galloway's Hydroelectric Power