Cultural Glenkens Highways and Byways of the Glenkens Talk

Описание: @StravaigingwithAndy and I were thrilled to be asked to give this talk as part of the Cultural Glenkens Programme on the 4th of December, 2025.
Over the course of describing three local walks, we covered the Glenkens from the North to the South, explaining the history we were passing by at every step along the way.
This is an edited version of the talk. There were some technical issues on the night, so we have endeavoured to provide the talk here as was intended.
Apologies for the sound, some of the technical issues meant we had to use sound from the camera, rather than the mixing desk.
With many thanks to @TheCatStrand for hosting the talk.

00:00 Intro
00:34 Old Pack Road - Carsphairn to Polmaddy
13:34 Dalry to Glenlee
28:15 New Galloway to Mossdale
45:10 Q&A and outro

Sources:
Lands of Galloway and their Owners, various volumes by PH McKerlie. Published by William Patterson, Edinburgh, 1877.
https://dag.vsmarthosting.net/iguana/...

Galloway Gossip by Robert de Bruce Trotter. Published 1901.
https://dag.vsmarthosting.net/iguana/...

East Galloway Sketches by Alexander Trotter. Published by Adam Rae, Castle Douglas, 1901.
https://dag.vsmarthosting.net/iguana/...


Rambles in Galloway by Malcolm McLachlin Harper. Published by R G Mann, dumfries, 1908
https://dag.vsmarthosting.net/iguana/...


Scotland’s Lost Gardens by Marilyn Brown. Published by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2012
https://dag.vsmarthosting.net/iguana/...


The Border Towers of Scotland 2 by Alistair M T Maxwell-Irving. Dumfries, 2014
https://dag.vsmarthosting.net/iguana/...

Some customs, folklore and Superstitions of Galloway, Alastair Penman
https://dag.vsmarthosting.net/iguana/...

Canmore/ Trove;
https://www.trove.scot/place/64213