Music suited tastes of promiscuous assembly

150 years Saturday evening concert The band of the Eskdale Rifles gave one of their popular concerts at Midknock, Westerkirk, on Saturday evening last.

Last updated 15 March 2013
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Down Memory Lane

PRIMARY pupils in the area had to pay the penalty for arriving at school in fancy dress and red noses but it was all in a good cause. The picture shows Ken Halliday, headteacher of Glenzier school in 1993.

Last updated 7 March 2013
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Feeling just champion

150 years Canonbie Antiquities At a recent meeting of the Scottish Society of Antiquarians held in Edinburgh, among the donations the following were acknowledged:

Last updated 7 March 2013
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Down Memory Lane

DOWN Memory Lane looks back to 1984 and Eskdale Thistle Colts, winning for the first time the Langholm and District Sixteen and Under League Cup.

Last updated 28 February 2013
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Fire engine cools off

150 years Social Meeting at Waterbeck The friends of temperance in Waterbeck and neighbourhood held a social meeting in the Hotts Bridge schoolroom on the evening of Monday, 2nd instant.

Last updated 28 February 2013
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Navvies square up to colliers on pay day

150 years Quarrel in Cross Keys Last Saturday being pay-day on the railway a number of the navvies were drinking at the Cross Keys, when a quarrel took place between some of them and some colliers, who were there drinking also.

Last updated 21 February 2013
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Down Memory Lane

DOWN Memory Lane on March 3, 2011 looked at the Langholm Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society’s 1961 production of Carousel.

Last updated 21 February 2013
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Down Memory Lane

THIS Down Memory Lane photo takes a look back at The Eskdale Hotel’s function room upstairs but the year it was taken is uncertain.

Last updated 14 February 2013
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Robert’s lecture on Langholm as it was

Last updated 14 February 2013
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Down Memory Lane

THIS Down Memory Lane photo takes a look back to May 1985.

Last updated 7 February 2013
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Battle is continuing for local education

150 years The Railway We are glad to be able to state that the contractors for the Langholm Branch of the Border Union Railway, are pushing forward the undertaking apparently as fast as the rough and stormy weather, which has prevailed so much during the past winter months, would allow.

Last updated 7 February 2013
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Down Memory Lane

THIS Down Memory Lane takes a look back to 1982 when Mary Hawthorn, second right, accepts a painting on the occasion of her retirement from service at the Thomas Hope Hospital.

Last updated 31 January 2013
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£19 to help Carlisle

On Tuesday 6th inst., a concert was given in the Parish School-room, here, in aid of the Carlisle Relief fund. The room was handsomely decorated with flags, kindly lent for the occasion by Mr Thomson of Liverpool, and, as on the previous occasion, the house was again a bumper, being crowded by a respectable audience.The annual soiree of this church was held on Monday evening. Rev. Geo. Orr presided over a large attendance.An appeal to all ex-servicemen and women in Langholm to support the local branch of the British Legion was made by Mr. W. Cuthbertson, Eskdaill Street, chairman of the branch, at its annual general meeting, which was held on Thursday evening.A packed room enjoyed a very convivial ‘Night wi’ Burns’ at the Eskdale Burns Club’s Annual Burns Supper held in the Eskdale Hotel on Friday night. With speakers and singers on top form, deserved applause was frequent throughout the evening.

Last updated 31 January 2013
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Times Past

150 years Soiree On the evening of Friday, the 16th inst., the Reformed Presbyterian Congregation of Davington, Eskdalemuir, held their annual soiree.

Last updated 24 January 2013
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Down Memory Lane

THIS week’s Down Memory Lane is of the Westerkirk Guild members but what we need your help with is the year and the names of the women in the photo.

Last updated 24 January 2013
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Down Memory Lane

WE LOOK back to 1993 and the finalists of the E&L baby of the year competition.

Last updated 17 January 2013
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Life without drink

On the evening of Tuesday, the 11th ult., Mr Beattie lectured in the Free church. It being the evening of the fast day, there was a more than ordinary attendance.A special meeting of this Society was held in the Crown Hotel, Langholm on Wednesday – Mr T. Gaskell, presiding.There was a good attendance of members at the annual Burns Night which was held last Wednesday evening.The disputed application to plant forestry on 480.6 hectares of land at Gorrenberry, near Hermitage, Newcastleton is now to go to the Forestry Commission’s Regional Advisory Committee to try and find a settlement.

Last updated 17 January 2013
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Down Memory Lane

THIS picture shows MacnaMillan’s Band which was one of the highlights of the British Legion old folk’s treat on January 15, 1967.

Last updated 10 January 2013
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Evening classes start at old parish school

150 years Langholm Parish School – Evening Classes We understand that, at the suggestion of the Government Inspector of Schools, it has been resolved to open evening classes in the Parish School for the benefit of youths of both sexes who are employed in the public works or otherwise engaged during the day.

Last updated 10 January 2013
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