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Originally published in 1908, this very readable account of the history of one of Scotland's most important counties is a story of ups and downs, of fightings for freedom and faith, of local and feudal jarrings and turmoils, of steady persevering through it all on the pathway of progress. This hardback edition combines the first volume, given to the history of the politics and social development of the shire, and the second volume, given to th...

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UPPER ANNANDALE begins at the little mossy ditch in the ravine, that was of old times called Corrie of Annan, and later, in the days of the Raiders, the " Deil's Beef Tub." It ends, as Upper Annandale, and becomes simply Annandale, when it has gathered to itself the waters of Burnock, Evan, Moffat, Wamphray, Kinnel, and other smaller burns, and, swollen into a mighty river, goes onward to the Solway. The Annan rises in a nest of hills-high, ru...

WHILE Edinburgh boasts the distinction of being the birthplace of Sir Walter Scott, and the greater part of his professional career was spent in the Capital, his "own romantic town, '' it goes without saying that nowhere was he more at home, and nowhere do we find so many associations with him, as in the Scottish Border. In the triangle which may be traced on the map from Berwick-on-Tweed to the Solway, thence northward to Tweedsmuir and Broug...

On the first day of May, 1911, we began our exploration of the 'Scott Country.' I say we, because I was accompanied by the companion of a much longer journey, of which that year was the twenty-fifth milestone. Whether from reasons of sentiment resulting from the near approach of our silver anniversary, or because of more prosaic geographical considerations, we began at the place where Walter Scott discovered that he would be likely to see more...

Among the steamers on Scotland's River Clyde, Queen Mary II held a special place in the hearts of Glaswegians. Sailing from the city centre, she was inseparably associated with Glasgow and her name carried an aura of mystique downriver. Clyde steamer design had reached a peak in the 1930s but by the fifties the times were changing: people increasingly abandoned the traditional Clyde resorts of Dunoon, Rothesay and Brodick for foreign climes an...

In 1906, life in Wamphray - situated between Lockerbie and Moffat in Southern Scotland - revolved round farm life, the church and the school. While Paterson attends closely to the personalities whose influence was felt, he writes too of the routines and habits of less famous folk, providing a backcloth reflecting many rural communities of the time.

Aided by both family connections and the support of the senior staff at the Caledonian Railway, Acworth reviews Scotland's 3, 000 miles (5, 000 km) of largely single-track railroad, with acute observations of the financial sense or otherwise of existing and proposed schemes. The Railway Race To The North is not long over, and this is a good time to address the "State of the Nation".

Directories reveal hitherto unheralded aspects of life in the expansion of Industrial Britain. Throughout the cotton trade, Paisley was a boom-and-bust environment, and its Directories chart the rise and fall of new wealth, while preserving the identities of long-established families. This directory is more than twice the size of an 1820 equivalent.

Directories reveal hitherto unheralded aspects of life in the expansion of Industrial Britain. Throughout the cotton trade, Paisley was a boom-and-bust environment, and its Directories chart the rise and fall of new wealth, while preserving the identities of long-established families. " ENGINES FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE: The Water Engines and other appurtenances for them, are deposited at the Meal Market, 79, High-street. Keys for them to be foun...

By 1902 this enthusiastic guide to Annan had reached its fourth edition as a confident 'companion alike to resident and visitor'. A brief history of the town, its major buildings, institutions and improvements is followed by details of 13 walks and 5 drives in the town and neighbourhood, as well as sketches of local places and people. And if anything of the flavour of the area has been missed, the closing professional and business directory is...

When first published in 1912, this collection of sketches from the Dumfries and Galloway Courier and Herald aimed to contrast Annandale in the last half of the nineteenth century with that in the first. The rich reminiscences are of life in every 'town or village, hamlet or clachan in the country side ...each height and hollow, plain and moorland of the dale'. Home, domestic and social life, crimes and criminals, superstitious customs, baptism...

When this book was first published, in 1926, it was with the aim of gathering into a single volume the story of the old castles, peel towers and historic homes of the turbulent lands between Scotland and England. As it recounts the histories of the families who lived in these landmarks, and charts their mark on local and national life, it also describes how their ballads and traditions came to cast a 'romantic halo over the whole Border countr...

The first (1715) edition of this work, which pre-dated Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account by some 80 years, seems to have been prompted by the work of the Scottish physician and antiquary Sir Robert Sibbald. Not surprisingly, this early record of the geography and history of the local area was in the Principal Library at Abbotsford. The 1815 edition, reprinted here, is considerably augmented by Notes based on Armstrong's survey of 1775, t...

James Alexander Riach was born in Dingwall, in the north of Scotland, in 1928 and grew up in the Western Isles, in Tobermory, Mull, and in Stornoway, on Lewis. He left to train as a marine cadet on HMS Conway, North Wales, from 1944-45, then went to sea as an officer with the Clan Line in the Merchant Navy. In 1961 he joined the Trinity House Pilots and worked in the pilotage service, taking ships out from the Terrace Pier at Gravesend and dow...

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Between 1952 and 2013, Bert - alias Jim - Whyatt contributed over 800 articles to small magazines, including Jazz Notes, Matrix, Jazzfinder and Record Research, and was an enthusiastic supporter of The Discophile, later becoming its assistant editor. With Derek Coller he prepared discographical columns for VJM and Jazz Music, and contributed biographical articles to The Mississippi Rag, Storyville, Jazz Journal and the IAJRC Journal - often fe...

Cycling was the usual form of private transport for millions in Britain in the 1930s. Two competing organisations had substantial memberships. This Handbook was to provide support, information, helpful advice, and a list of suitable stopping places.

The General Turnpike Road Act set out the basis for the road network of nineteenth-century England and Wales. With an Appendix of forms and The Standing Orders of both Houses of Parliament with respect to Private Road Bills, &c.to, which are added, an index and notes.