Imprint:
Westhill : Skene Heritage Society, 2004-2014.
Collation:
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 30 cm.
Notes:
Index of subjects at rear of volume.
Contents:
Who are we - - The history of Skene - - Garlogie Mill - - Old schools and schooling - - Broadstraik Inn - - The formation of Westhill as we know it - - Mason Lodge - - Local snippets - - Sharing memories - - Myths and legends: The Wizard Laird of Skene - - Skene Reform Bill Monument - - Malcolm Gillespie: the Gauger of Skene - - Sindering - - Skene in ballad and poem - - Street names in Westhill - part 1 - - Drum Stone - - The Church of Skene and its first manse - - Roberta Murray's memories of Skene House - - The parish bobby and the firearms amnesty - - Jessie Kesson on Skene - - Brigadier General Hamilton - - Freemasons - - Coffee morning - - John Bruce of the Fornet: 1816-1905 - - Exciting episodes at Skene: the finding of the coffin and urns - - Jock's grave - - Skene bobby's notebook: two fatal accidents in one day - - Dead man on a milk cart - - The Red Star - - A visit to Skene House in 1890 - - Rejoicings at Kirkville - - Watch house at Skene - - Early transport to Skene - - The Skene and Cluny Bus - - Red Star revisited - - Memories of the Kirton - - Railway and railway bus operated services to Skene / Gordon Pirie - - Mason marks project - - Skene buses - - Cruise mould - - Bowie Lums - - Elizabeth Allan - - Rev William Philip - - Old photographs and coffee morning - - Skene House gasworks - - James Knowles of Kirkville - - Bowie Lums again!! - - Leslie Durno in conversation - - Skene War Work Committee - - Charlie Gibbon - - Skene Games - - Elpeth Haston - - Dispute over a coffin - - A piano for Westhill - - Westhill Congregational Church - - Events - - Sundays in Skene c.1910 - - The Milne Hall - - Adam Craigmile - - A tragic death in the moss - - The Milne Hall again - - Proctor's Orphanage - - Water supplies in Skene - - Boundary stones - - The Leddach - - Earlick or Elrick - - Old roads - - Broadshade - - Old roads again - - Old Skene Road - - Kirton Shop - - Lost weaving communities - - Bus shelter at foot of Barclay's Brae - - Doctor Skinner's car - - A visit to Skene House in 1856 - - Marriage celebration at Skene House - - Election dispute - - Boundary stones and old roads again - - The Rural - - A new record for Skene Church - - Auld Carle the blacksmith - - Body snatching - - Soutar Beaton - - Furious bicycle riding in Skene - - Mary Mitchell and her Skene ancestors - - Davina Millar remembers - - William Taylor of Southbank - - Items from the census - - Wellcroft - - Auchinclech and the Cloch More - - Clan Skene Society - - The New Inn at Lochee - - A motorcycle on the Loch of Skene - - Taposheetie - - Visitors from West Virginia - - Skene and Wester Fintray - - Gillespie the Gauger again - - Westhill House - - Moses Berry - - Notes from the council register - - Various Skene folk and Skene House - - The Hamiltons of Skene House - - An incidence of horse cruelty.
Summary:
The newsletter of the Skene Heritage Society, a group set up in October 2001. At its formation, the main objective of the group was to gather together an archive of local history materials for the benefit of local residents.
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