Skelmorlie
With war came supposedly healthier eating habits, this little collection of recipes from New Zealand perhaps of interest to today's peoples sufferi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
robertcathcart scribbled:
This is good, who wrote it? can a copy be put onto www.s1skelmorlie.com please?
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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