Echoes 16  2010

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Or you can download the individual articles listed below:

Albert Calder 1938 – 2010 – Our tribute to a much loved and respected member of our Group and of our community 

Flo in the Post Office – Flo Strachan describes her long career in the Post Office to Jan Healey & Katie Price

Flo‘s Tarland – Flo describes four decades of change in Tarland to Jan Healey

A Tale Of Yesteryear – The cautionary tale of an orra loon at Kincraigie in 1929, by Robert L Fyfe

Apothecaries’ Hall and other memories – A child’s eye-view of her father’s pharmacy by Sheila Ross

Pharmacy through the Years – Sheila Ross summarises the findings of her background research into the above article

A Visit To Dalmochie Lumberjack Camp – An account of one of this summer’s History Group trips by Rita Barnes

The Annnals Of The Free Church, Taland – How the parish of Tarland responded after the Disruption of 1843, by Joyce Marchant

A Collection of Archive Items – Items relating to the Tarland Free Church first published in issue 13 of Echoes

A Tale Of Two Grandfathers – Dorothy Reid remembers her two very different grandfathers – and learns something new

An Unusual Archive Aquisition – Selected entries from a local grave-digger’s notebook passed on to us by Jim Craigmile

Mary Barbara Russell (nee Stout) 1912 – 2010 – An appreciation of one of their former teachers by Joyce Marchant and Dorothy Reid

The Legend of the One-Eyed, Red-Haired Man – A classic local tale from the Elphinstone Kist retold in Doric by Les Wheeler

Reminiscences of Cromar and Canada – A detailed account of manners and customs in Cromar in the mid 1800s as recalled by Donald Robert Farquharson who emigrated from Logie Coldstone in 1866

Tarlan’ WRI American Tea – Another scandal that rocked the Tarland WRI in the 1920s, by Maggie Innes

Reminiscences of Mrs Jean Borthwick – The Tarland of around 1912 as seen through the eyes of a minister’s wife

Tarland‘s Welcome Home Sale – A rousing poem by A J Watson appealing for cash for homecoming WWII soldiers

Cattle-lifting and Illicit Distilling – An item from the 1936 Lonach Highland Games programme via Gordon Ross

Keiselguhr Cottage – Ken Glennie  answers  a place name riddle and makes some unlikely  connections

Dynamite Under the Moss – A 1970s newspaper artcle featuring Ordie by Sheila Hamilton

The Battle of Culblean, 1335 – The background to this significant victory for the Bruce dynasty by Rob Gibson