From The Community · Glenkens Archive

Title: From The Community
Description: Items relating to the Glenkens kindly donated by community members and organisations. Please see individual items for contributor details.
Contributor: Community members

Collection Items

heritage

Final Conservation Report - Old Mortality

The project was led by Balmacellan Community Council and carried out by Graciela Ainsworth Sculpture Conservation Company, with funding from Blackcraig Wind Farm Community Fund, administered by Foundation Scotland / Glenkens & District Trust (60%) and Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership’s National Lottery Heritage Fund (40%).
The Stewartry Roll of Honour in The Great War 1914-1918.

Roll of Honour compiled by the publishers J. H. Maxwell Ltd, Castle Douglas.
"The purpose of this volume is to place on record the names of the men and women belonging to the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright who saw active service in the Great War."
buildings

Ivy Cottage: The poem, the history, the mystery.

By Joshua Wells. Prize winning entry in the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society Young Researcher Competition for 2024.
Montage of photos of 35 of the 82 men on the Glenkens Roll of Honour of men who died in WW1.
- George Ferguson
- Gnr. A Campbell
- William Stewart
- Private Robert Hamilton
- Pte. J. Tait
- Private David Cuthberton
- James Faed
- Captain A. E. Cathcart
- Alfred Tait
- Joseph McCulloch
- Robert McWhirter
- Pte. A. Doyle
- Captain A. Clark Kennedy
- Robert James Clark
- L-Sgt A Byers
- Cpl R Baird
- Pte A. McCheyne
- Pte W Martin
- Private A McNaught
- George Buck
- Private T Wilson
- Lance-Corporal George Hamilton
- Sgt J Milroy
- Pte A Clement
- Second Lieutenant John Murray
- John Martin
- L-Cpl R Corrie
- Adam Byers
- Archibald McIntyre
- Matthew Stewart
- George McGaw
- Private Alex McCulloch
- Private David J. Coltart
- Pte W Robertson
- John Little
Glenkens Roll of Honour of men who died in WW1

Roll of 82 service men, researched and compiled by Paul Goodwin. This document is now an official war memorial with the original being held by the D&G library service archive. The original is listed by the Imperial War Museum as WMR 80051.
resilience

Building Resilience Capacity in Remote Rural Communities

Loch Ken Trust Research Project
community spaces

Parton Kirk Strategic Context Assessment

Commissioned by Parton Community Council 2023.
community spaces

Parton Kirk Feasibility Study

Commissioned by Parton Community Council 2023.

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Collection Tree

From The Community
- Heritage
  - World War 1
- Contemporary