What’s On
What’s On
Please scroll through this list of Association Events or else ‘search’ for something specific. Come and enjoy a great day or evening out!
* Friday 10th May 2024 * Details The Association’s summer outing takes place on Friday 10th May, with a visit to Kitchen Coos & Ewes, High Airyolland Farm, New Luce, Wigtownshire DG8 0AU (tel: 01581 600223). More details to follow. More details can be requested using the Contact Us page on this website. Venue Kitchen Coos & Ewes, High Airyolland Farm, New Luce DG8 0AU
* Saturday 12th October 2024 * Details Our Annual Dinner will be held on Saturday 12th Oct 2024 at Creebridge House Hotel. The guest speakers include Dr Fraser Hunter, Fraser Sanderson and Councillor Katie Hagmann. More details can be requested using the Contact Us page on this website. Venue Creebridge House Hotel, Newton Stewart DG8 6NP
* Saturday 9th March 2024 * Details The Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 9th March 2024 at 7.00pm through the use of Zoom. The meeting will include a presentation by tour guide Su Pollock about the Merchant City . More details can be requested using the Contact Us page on this website. Venue Zoom
* Friday 25 th August 2023 * Details Our Summer Meeting will be held on Friday 25 th 2023 at 7.30pm through the use of Zoom. The presentation by author Jerry Brannigan, who lives in Glasgow and is a Burns enthusiast, is entitled " Beatrice Clugston and her links to Wigtownshire ". Several of her relatives were office bearers of the Association in the 1820’s. Beatrice Clugston set up a hospital for incurables, a forerunner of the modern Hospice movement. Cala Homes chose the name Beatrice Meadows for the housing developments in the grounds of Broomhill Hospital, one of Beatrice’s great achievements - the image shows a tree and plaque to commemorate Beatrice. More details can be requested using the Contact Us page on this website. Venue Zoom
* Thursday 9th November 2023 * Details Our Autumn/Winter Meeting will be held on Thursday 9th November 2023 at 7.30pm through the use of Zoom. The presentation is by Ian Baldie who has written a book about RAF North Cairn, which was located on the north west coast of the Rhins of Galloway. This was part of the network of Chain Home radar stations providing air defences for the UK, with the station at North Cairn helping to protect Belfast and Glasgow. The image shows one of the war-time buildings, belonging to the North Cairn radar station . More details can be requested using the Contact Us page on this website. Venue Zoom
