Quiz Night Kirkton Hall Friday 19th April

Happy Easter

 

Kirkmahoe News Wishes all our Readers a Happy Easter

Snow Pictures

It looks as though the snow we have is going to be around for more than a day, so it would be good for us to see some of your snow pictures of the area. Or if you are making snowmen, igloos, snow sculptures etc please send us your photographs of them.

Here is an amusing one we came across.

 

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BT1303

 

 Here is the next Brain Teaser for you

 

 

 

On the 21st of every month, a different place in Kirkmahoe will be featured and you are invited to contact the blog on kirkmahoe@googlemail.com to tell us:-

1. What the place is called
2. Where is it located
3. Any interesting information about it.......

There are no prizes, other than satisfaction of being right!
Your replies will help us to build up an interesting and useful resource of information about the featured places.

Everyone who accurately identifies the location will have their name published, uness they request otherwise.

(Due to technical difficulties we are a day late with this month's Brain Teaser Many Apologies)

Answers to BT 1302

1) Name: Dalswinton Mains by Dalswinton Loch

2) Location: Dalswinton Estate. It is reached by travelling from the A701 at Heathhall on the road that runs via Kirkton to Dalswinton and Auldgirth to the A76. The principal estate buildings, which are situated on the left before Dalswinton Village, have a grand drive, at the entrance to which there are two lodges and handsome gates, and further on there is a back drive for general traffic.

3) Dalswinton Estate has many claims to fame: associations with the Romans and later in time a castle owned by the *Red Comyn. Patrick Millar, a successful banker with the Bank of Scotland, bought the estate unseen in 1785 and proceeded to transform it by building the present Dalswinton House on the site of the former castle. It was completed in 1793. Dalswinton Mains served as a stable and coachhouse and also dates from the 1790s. John Gifford in The Buildings of Dumfries and Galloway states that it is "of polished ashlar.  Over the...pedimented centrepiece, a tower, its bottom stage a square pedestal. Above, a taller octagonal clock stage. This is now topped by a truncated pyramid roof finished with iron cresting, clearly Victorian, perhaps replacing a dome."

**The loch, also created by Patrick Miller was the scene of the launch of the first steamboat in Scotland in 1788.

Currently, the Stable Block is used for a number of things: there are 3 residential houses within it, a holiday flat and an interior design business showroom.The back of the building is undeveloped but there are plans for it so that the whole building is in use

* Robert The Bruce killed John Comyn III (The Red Comyn) his main rival for the throne of Scotland, in GREYFRIARS CHURCH, DUMFRIES. Greyfriars Church was situated across the road (what is now the bus stop) and the present Greyfriars Church was the site of The Maxwell mansion house.





**Symington's steamboat experiment, Dalswinton Loch, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, 1788 (19th century). Artist: Parent

Credit: Liszt Collection / Heritage Images

Additional information

Symington's steamboat experiment, Dalswinton Loch, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, 1788 (19th century). William Symington (1764-1831) was a Scottish engineer and inventor who designed an improved steam engine and used it to power the first steamboat built in Britain. In 1789 he successfully trialled a larger boat on the Forth and Clyde Canal.

With Thanks to Morag Williams and Sarah Landale.

Weather comparison from this time last year.

March 2012

March 2013 

These satellite images from March 2012  and March 2013 show how far we’ve fallen from the March 2012 high of 23.6C recorded in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, to -12.9C in the same village last week.

Wrap up warm folks!!

(taken from Daily Mail)

KCC Minutes February 2013/ Agenda March 2013

KCC Minutes February 2013 http://www.docstoc.com/docs/148948404/KCC_Minutes_February_2013

The next meeting of Kirkmahoe Community Council will be held in Kirkton Village Hall on Wednesday 20th March 2013 at 7.30pm

Agenda

1.    Apologies for absence

2.    Minutes of the last meeting

3.    Matters arising

4.    Police Report

5.    Treasurer’s report

6.    Councillors’ report

7.    Kirkton Enhancements 

8.    Kirkton Waste Water Treatment Works

9.    Periodic Review of Community Councils

10. Windfarms - Dalswinton Windfarm Monies

11. Financial Reserves Policy

12. Future Management of Small Schools

13. Events

14. Correspondence

15. Any other competent business

16. Date, time and place of next meeting

 

What's on Kirkmahoe Parish Hall March 2013

4	Monday	12:00 – 13:00	Pilates
		19:30 – 21:30	Badminton
5	Tuesday	19:30 – 21:30	Bowling
6	Wednesday	13:30 – 14:30	Tai Chi
7	Thursday	19:00 – 22:30	Old Time dancing
8	Friday	19:30 – 22:30	Senior Citizens Concert
9	Saturday	13:00 – 17:00	SWRI Bowling
11	Monday	12:00 – 13:00	Pilates
		19:30 – 21:30	Badminton
12	Tuesday	19:30 – 21:30	Bowling
13	Wednesday	13:30 – 14:30	Tai Chi
14	Thursday	19:00 – 22:30	Old Time dancing
18	Monday	12:00 – 13:00	Pilates
		19:30 – 21:30	Badminton
19	Tuesday	19:30 – 21:30	Bowling
20	Wednesday	13:30 – 14:30	Tai Chi
21	Thursday	19:00 – 22:30	Old Time dancing
24	Sunday	10:00 – 14:00	Craft Fayre
25	Monday	12:00 – 13:00	Pilates
		19:30 – 21:30	Badminton
26	Tuesday	10:30 – 12:30	Social Club (Sugarcraft – Ina Campbell)
		19:30 – 21:30	Bowling
27	Wednesday	13:30 – 14:30	Tai Chi
28	Thursday	19:00 – 22:30	Old Time dancing

Other dates for your Diary

Date	Day	Time
5th April	Friday	19:30- 23:30	Ken Meek Concert
10th April	Wednesday	19:30 – 22:00	SWRI Meeting
19th April	Friday	19:00 – 23:00	Pub Quiz
27th April	Saturday	14:00 – 16:30	Heritage Group – Hall 110th Birthday
28th April	Sunday	14:00 – 16:30	Heritage Group – Hall 110th Birthday
30th April	Tuesday	10:30 – 12:30	Social Club  (Wildlife in your garden)