Dear blog reader This is the seventh 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 7”
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Shandon Mutual Improvement Society
Dear blog reader I hope you enjoy this compilation of reports on adult education at Shandon by the Shandon Mutual Improvement Society. Best wishes Jacqueline *********************************** HELENSBURGH EVENING NEWS, THURSDAY 29 MARCH 1883 SHANDON – THE COURSE OF LECTURES Last Wednesday, Mr Alexander Vallance read a paper on ‘Athletics’ and on Friday, the Rev MrContinue reading “Shandon Mutual Improvement Society”
Shandon Mutual Improvement Society in 1886
THE HELENSBURGH NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1886 DISTRICT NEWS SHANDON MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY The annual conversazione of this association was held in the Schoolhouse on Friday evening. There was a large attendance and Mr Andrew J Kilpatrick occupied the chair. The chairman gave a very interesting address on the pleasures of reading and the loveContinue reading “Shandon Mutual Improvement Society in 1886”
Shandon People and History 