Here we go straight from Panalba, to confirm that plans are afoot to host another International Clan Gathering in Stirling in early July 2014 as part of the 2nd Year of Homecoming. It is too early to provide any detail, but rest assured that Panalba will be keeping  us to date. As you can imagine there will be a lot to report as we get closer to 2014, but in the interim we will keep you abreast of any relevant developments.

This is great stuff, good on the organisers fro changing direction and...

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Caledonian Canal- Telfords Marvel on PhotoPeach The Caledonian Canal. There was never a huge amount of boat traffic through the canal when I was young. You could wait for hours to see the locks being opened and usually it was a number of small boats what went through at once, but it was fun to watch. The huge gates were opened by a series of levers in some locks all by hand until diesel generators made the change to a more mechanical operation. Lock-keepers were employed there to do this j...
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So it has often come into my thinking soul, about the town of Berwick on Tweed such a unique town and not just because of its history but because after years of warring with us lot, at the end of the battling period, it became English at the end of the 15^th Century.

When and how did all this happen ,before 1482 Berwick had been one of the foremost ports in Scotland, albeit a dangerous one because of it situation, and its original population had long since been decimated. In the various wars ...

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