Thursday, June 05, 2014
The Grand Match at Linlithgow 1848
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by Bob Cowan This week has seen Charles Lees's painting of the Grand Match at Linlithgow Loch, beautifully restored, go on display i...
Friday, May 23, 2014
The 'Manly Game of Balls': A Substitute for Curling in 1846
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David Smith writes: Until the arrival in Scotland of indoor ice rinks, the ice of which was made by machine and did not depend on the clim...
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Theft of Olympic Curling Medals
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The Curling Connections exhibition in Dumfries Museum has been a great success. But last night the museum was broken into, and a number of i...
Friday, April 18, 2014
Curling Connections
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The Dumfries Museum was founded in 1835 as an astronomical observatory and museum in a stone windmill built about 1790 on Corberry Hill. ...
Friday, April 04, 2014
Olympic gold medal to star at Curling Connections
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by Bob Cowan Arrangements are well in hand for the Curling Connections exhibition in Dumfries Museum, set to open on April 18. The exhi...
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Friday, March 21, 2014
Bill Charmatz and the Megeve Silver Broom
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By Bob Cowan Bill Charmatz is a well known American illustrator, who died in 2005. There is a website dedicated to his work and maintain...
Monday, February 24, 2014
Inspector of the Ice
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On the wall of Tibbermore Church near Perth is a monument to James Ritchie, who died in 1840. This monument is built into the west w...
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