Dear blog reader This is the fifth part in a series of Shandon hatches, matches and dispatches that have appeared in the newspapers. I always find such finds very exciting in my own 30 years of family history research and I hope this helps anyone doing similar Shandon-based research. (Glossary: inst/instant means of the presentContinue reading “Hatches Matches and Dispatches Part 5”
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Search for two in Gareloch
ABERDEEN PRESS AND JOURNAL, 18 SEPTEMBER 1964 SCOTS LOCH SEARCH FOR TWO BOATMEN Screams for help sent a launch racing to where a lonely figure clung to an upturned boat in a Scottish loch yesterday. And as 42-year-old Mr Charles Watson of Millvaig Drive, Farnhill, Rutherglen, was hauled from the Gareloch half-drowned, he gasped outContinue reading “Search for two in Gareloch”
Christians at the Peace Camp
Dear blog reader Hopefully you will forgive me for a blog post on something at Shandon of particular to interest to me, but sometimes slightly controversial – the peace camp. ********************************* LENNOX HERALD, NOVEMBER 17, 1989 CHRISTIAN PROTEST AT FASLANE BASE BY MARY CULLEN, PICTURES BY BRIAN AVERELL Members of Christian CND from all overContinue reading “Christians at the Peace Camp”
Shandon Valuation Roll 1905
Dear blog reader Welcome to the sixth part in a series, a list of the people, with house names where known, who were connected with Shandon in 1905. In 1905 Shandon had 82 households listed. A vast increase on the anomaly of the valuation roll of 1895 when only 16 households were listed but alsoContinue reading “Shandon Valuation Roll 1905”
Reverend John Brechin’s Appeal Part 2
Dear blog reader This is part 2 of a series started last week on the appeal regarding Reverend John Brechin’s intoxication heard at the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1881. Last week we heard up to Reverend John Brechin’s evidence and so we will continue from Reverend John Brechin’s evidence thisContinue reading “Reverend John Brechin’s Appeal Part 2”
Shandon Hydro Hotel and great kindness
Dear blog reader This week’s blog post is a tribute to the great kindness of Dominic Skeet who this week sent me a duplex postcard book of views of and around the Shandon Hydropathic Hotel. I shall share below each postcard in the album (only one postcard was actually sent, that showing the terrace) andContinue reading “Shandon Hydro Hotel and great kindness”
Sacred Music – Original Temple To Mozart
HELENSBURGH NEWS THURSDAY 18 MARCH 1886 SHANDON – THE MUSIC OF THE MASS On Friday last, Mr Thomas Brash, Helensburgh, delivered a lecture on this subject. He sketched the interesting and progressive history of the music of the ancient Church of Rome, tracing its origin in the fragments of the old Jewish service of theContinue reading “Sacred Music – Original Temple To Mozart”
Thank you – 1st anniversary
Dear blog readers Just a short post to thank you for your loyalty, friendship and extra information offered over the last year. I’ve just worked out it was one year past on 29th May when I relaunched both of my local history blogposts and I have had such fun researching since then and sharing withContinue reading “Thank you – 1st anniversary”
Professor William Swan – Ardchapel
William Swan was born in Edinburgh in 1818 to David Swan, an engineer,and Janet Smith. When David Swan died in 1821, William became his mother’s chief focus and Janet Smith was acquainted with Thomas Carlyle the philosopher. William’s maternal uncle was Robert Stevenson, the lighthouse engineer. William was educated privately in Edinburgh, became a scienceContinue reading “Professor William Swan – Ardchapel”
Serious Accidents at Shandon Station
Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette 2 July 1904 Yesterday morning an accident took place at Shandon Station on the West Highland Railway. The early through train from Glasgow to Fort William was brought to a standstill at the head of the incline which leads to Shandon Station, a stretch of about a quarter ofContinue reading “Serious Accidents at Shandon Station”
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