We will be conducting a guided walk around the Kilmarnock Heritage Trail on the evening of Tuesday 4th August 2015.
If you are interested in joining please meet at the new 'Killie Browser' bookshop and 'Storm in a Teacup' café on Platform 1 of Kilmarnock Station from 6pm onwards. We will start the walk at 6.30 and finish approx 8pm in or around Fanny By Gaslight - depending what kind of after walk refreshment you require !
The walk is free of charge but we would welcome donations (amount at your own discretion) towards KDHG funds.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Kilmarnock Periodicals
Kilmarnock Periodicals (1815 – 1900) is one of the Burns Monument
Centre’s Special Collections.
This is an almost complete collection of the periodicals printed in Kilmarnock from 1816 to 1900 (it also includes The Ayrshire Magazine and West Country Monthly Repository, which was printed in Irvine in 1815).
http://bmc.burnsmonumentcentre.co.uk/discoveries-in-our-kilmarnock-periodicals/
The early periodicals in particular provide an interesting view of the town’s literary scene at the time. Most of them contain original poems, stories, essays and reviews by writers with some connection to the area. For example, the Kilmarnock Annual and Western Literary Annual (1835) contains two songs by John Galt.
Some of the main printers of the town ventured into periodical printing at some stage. For example, H. Crawford (who was the town’s next printer after John Wilson left for Ayr), printed The Ayrshire Miscellany from 1817. A little later, James McKie printed a few titles including The Ayrshire Inspirer (1839). D. Brown and Company, who printed lots of Burns books from the 1880s until the 1900s, produced the Burns-inspired Auld Killie (1893 – 1898).
This is an almost complete collection of the periodicals printed in Kilmarnock from 1816 to 1900 (it also includes The Ayrshire Magazine and West Country Monthly Repository, which was printed in Irvine in 1815).
http://bmc.burnsmonumentcentre.co.uk/discoveries-in-our-kilmarnock-periodicals/
The early periodicals in particular provide an interesting view of the town’s literary scene at the time. Most of them contain original poems, stories, essays and reviews by writers with some connection to the area. For example, the Kilmarnock Annual and Western Literary Annual (1835) contains two songs by John Galt.
Some of the main printers of the town ventured into periodical printing at some stage. For example, H. Crawford (who was the town’s next printer after John Wilson left for Ayr), printed The Ayrshire Miscellany from 1817. A little later, James McKie printed a few titles including The Ayrshire Inspirer (1839). D. Brown and Company, who printed lots of Burns books from the 1880s until the 1900s, produced the Burns-inspired Auld Killie (1893 – 1898).
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
New Website for Kilmarnock & District History Group
Look out for the new website of KDHG which goes live tomorrow (1st. September). It has several new features which, we hope, are an improvement on the previous site. Have a look at it from tomorrow and share your thoughts about it with us. We look forward to your comments positive or negative.
Waterloo Street, Kilmarnock around 1900.
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