Christmas Address : Rev Jane Howitt The Rev Jane Howitt engaged totally with her audience as she unravelled situations which went to the very core of what Christianity means. She spoke movingly of people of different faiths really going out
Paisley’s Bid for the UK City of Culture 2021 : Alan McNiven Alan McNiven, Chief Executive of Renfrewshire’s Third Sector Initiative ‘Engage Renfrewshire’ said he found it difficult to be magnanimous towards Coventry, the City which won the UK City
It was in 1963 that the curtains finally came down on the Glasgow Empire. Around that time saw the demise also of the variety shows which had been so much a feature of many other theatres across Scotland. Bob Bain
Niall Murphy : Statues on George Square Members expecting a brief history of the statues on George Square received a fascinating tale of the origins of the Square and its ups and downs since 1781. Niall’s story started in 2012
The Grand Central Hotel 14th November, 2017 Jill Scott and Bill Greig Our vice-chairman, Angus Murchison, introduced a joint presentation by Jill Scott and Bill Greig, former colleagues on the Sunday Post. With the support of their former employer, Jill
I am Chief Executive of Renfrewshire’s TSI ‘Engage Renfrewshire’ which supports local community action, volunteering, and social enterprise. The agency also promotes the local Third Sector’s role in Community Planning. I have a wide range of experience within education, regeneration
Fraser Bruce : The Folk Scene Archie Henderson started the fun by rising immediately Fraser started talking. He drew an ‘old fashioned look’ from Fraser as he went to switch off the lights. ‘No doubt your image of folk singers
Starting at Overtoun House, with the weather closing in, 6 brave walkers headed up towards the LangCrags, an imposing clifflike structure shrouded in cloud. “Path closed” said the sign “due to rebuilding of the path” The diversion looked rather long,
George English : Family History George quickly established his audience’s origins as any good genealogist should do. Unsurprisingly he found that the majority of members were of West of Scotland born but others came from further afield in Scotland, Ireland,
Born in London in 1947 to a Scots father and a Welsh mother , we moved to Rutherglen to live in 1953. My father was pipe major in the Cameronians but neither me nor my two brothers learned to play
