Today’s Museum photo shows an Academy class with Mrs Collin as the teacher. I recognise two names: Anne Moss (Mullender) and Moira Davidson (Jones). Posting it made me realise that I’m the modern-day equivalent of Jeanette Millar’s window. How m
any of you remember it?
The Museum has sent us several school photos, which we’ll share here over the next few days. Some include everyone’s names, but others are missing names, locations and dates. This one was clearly taken outside the Cochran Gym and may feature some of your dads or grandads. Do you recognise anyone?
The YouTube video “Kirkcudbright Master Class: CEG Universe Arriving in Kirkcudbright” reminded me
how the tankers used their anchors to turn in the harbour. I’ve looked out some photos including one of the Kis Skuo,1975, which didn’t make it and hit the bridge. Note the onlookers on the harbour edge with no safety concerns. There used to be crab fishing competitions with kids sitting on the harbour edge and no life jackets!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3K92huOuqA
Tidal processes cause silt to build up in Kirkcudbright Harbour, so regular dredging is needed to maintain safe depths and access for fishing vessels and other users. The work began in 1956 to provide safe access for
Shell Mex tankers, with the company’s lorry drivers initially clearing the harbour using hoses.
David Collin’s talk to the History Society traced a lifetime of connections between the sea and Kirkcudbright. Born in a cottage on the St Mary’s Isle Estate while the ruins of Isle House still smouldered, he is still living in a cottage there 85 years later. He bridged the intervening years with reminiscences and coincidences showing how Kirkcudbright followed him to distant places. If you missed last night’s entertaining and informative talk, you can watch it on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_f1ImoSpxQ&t=24s
We have received an enquiry about a medal awarded to I. Palmer in 1931. The address listed is “Collieburn, 
Kirkcudbright”. Does anyone know where this was? Palmer may have been a farmer or smallholder, as the medal was awarded for egg-laying trials. We also found a reference to Collieburn in a local diary from 1940. “Jean and I had a “brambling expedition” in the afternoon, left Town [Kirkcudbright] about 2 and returned about 7 o’clock. Picking on the roadside near Collieburn and easy picking, great crop lovely and dry”. Any ideas contact secretary@kirkcudbrighthistorysociety.org.uk
Result:
CALLING J THOMSON
Are you J Thomson, and did you recently pay for a two-person membership with Kirkcudbright History Society? If so, please contact our secretary at khsoffice44@gmail.com.
