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Skelmorlie published:

War Economy Recipe Book

With war came supposedly healthier eating habits, this little collection of recipes from New Zealand perhaps of interest to today's peoples sufferi...

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Recipes & Menus

11 / 06 / 2009
Skelmorlie published:

1839 Eglinton Tournament

In September 2009, art expert James Knox, a trustee of The National Galleries of Scotland, beat two English based dealers at auction and paid £7,50...

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Research, History

11 / 06 / 2009
Skelmorlie published:

Lord Inverclyde - How the Mastiffs We...

On the evening of Saturday, June 22, 1878, Mr John Burns and his wife, along with sixteen guests, left the private jetty below Castle Wemyss to b...

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Research, History

09 / 26 / 2009
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Skelmorlie and Inverkip Sea Scouts

When Alfred Holt's 'Blue Funnel' cargo ship "Dymas" arrived at Arnott Young's Damuir shipbreaking yard on April 8, 1954, one of her lifeboats, see...

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Research

09 / 18 / 2009
Skelmorlie published:

RNLI Grace Paterson Ritchie (70-002) ...

The "Grace Paterson Ritchie (70-002)" was the first of the R.N.L.I. lifeboats to have a steel hull, her £57,000 cost was met by a legacy from Miss...

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Research

09 / 18 / 2009
Skelmorlie published:

Burns Shipping Companies Early History

It was in 1818 when the two brothers became partners. J. & G. Burns, their original firm, were produce merchants. In pushing their business they vi...

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Research, History

09 / 09 / 2009
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Lord Inverclyde's Yachts

On the evening of Saturday, June 22, 1878, Mr John Burns and his wife, along with sixteen guests, left the private jetty below Castle Wemyss to b...

Skelmorlie

Research, History

09 / 06 / 2009
Skelmorlie published:

Lord Inverclyde's Marriage to June Tripp

John Alan Burns, whose family found the finance for The Cunard Line, succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Inverclyde of Castle Wemyss on August 16, ...

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Research, History

09 / 02 / 2009
Skelmorlie published:

William Watson's Eagle and Other U.S....

Skelmorlie-born William Watson's delightful "Adventures of A Blockade-runner", in which he describes a trip which he made from Galveston to Tampico...

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Research, History

09 / 02 / 2009
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Skelmorlie and Wemyss Bay - World War II

A short history of events in and around Skelmorlie and Wemyss Bay during World War II, including the personalities who found refuge in Castle Wemy...

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Research, History

08 / 26 / 2009
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This is good, who wrote it? can a copy be put onto www.s1skelmorlie.com please?

09 / 01 / 2009

Skelmorlie published:

Battle 0f Largs 1263 - The Norwegian ...

The Battle of Largs was an engagement fought between the armies of Norway and Scotland near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire on The ...

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Research, History

07 / 20 / 2009
Skelmorlie published:

Clark Memorial Church, Largs - History

The Rev. Charles H. H. Scobie's post-1961 published history of Largs' Clark Memorial Church, the church building, sometimes referred to as 'The C...

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Books, Religion & Spirituality

07 / 04 / 2009
Skelmorlie published:

INTERNET ARCHIVE - Old Website Pages ...

Many of the webpages from the old MSN Group websites and The Clyde River Steamer Club's website, albeit without any photographs and sometimes with...

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Research, History

07 / 02 / 2009
Skelmorlie published:

1776 - Taylor and Skinner - Road Map ...

The first ever map of the road from Greenock to Fairlie which traced its way down the Spango Valley and then, via the old 'high roads' through Lar...

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Books, Non-fiction

08 / 12 / 2008
Skelmorlie published:

1792 - Taylor and Skinner - Road Atla...

Priced at 12 shillings, George Taylor and Andrew Skinner's 1776-published "Survey and Maps of The Roads of North Britain, or Scotland" was essent...

Skelmorlie

Books, Non-fiction

08 / 12 / 2008

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