Events

Dates for Your Diary 2023/2024

All meetings will take place at 8pm in Dreghorn Loan Hall, excepting those indicated * which will be via Zoom and will start at 19:30.


The annual subscription is £15 (£25 for a couple). Guest membership is £5 per session.


Date

Subject

Speaker

2 October 2023

Hugh Miller: A review

Kath Hay

16 October 2023

The Fresh Air of the Summer Morning - the story of Duncan Napier the herbalist

Eric Melvin

6 November 2023

Are we nearly there yet? The story of milestones

Bruce Keith

20 November 2023*

Disaster at Darien; its devastating effect on Edinburgh and Scotland

Jim Davieson

4 December 2023*

Drovers and Drove roads in south Scotland

Willie Waugh

18 December 2023

Christmas Social


15 January 2024

Understanding Edinburgh's gravestones - their history and meaning, mystery and beauty

Mark Hatton

5 February 2024

The Museum of Flight ' The work of the conservators'

Thilo Burgel

19 February 2024

The Galloway Hoard

David Bartholomew

4 March 2024

The Shetland Bus; where did it travel to? what was the timetable & who were the passengers?

Kath Hay

18 March 2024

Challenges to the Conservation of the designed Landscape at Newhailes

Colin Wren

               1 April 2024*

Annual General Meeting