This section contains updates about the site and its operation.
Late last year we began a project to photograph and record all of the Headstones in the Old Parish Churchyard in Irvine. The Headstones were in a fairly poor condition, having been subject to the harsh weather of the West Coast of Scotland, vandalism and just the effects of age. The Local Authority have maintained […]
I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but we added the above logo to the site about a week ago, and we’ve been using it on various media we’ve been creating lately. The above is a log that Clyde Imagineering and Scruffy Dug Design Solutions have created for an Irvine Brand. The logo incorporates the […]
We’ve just updated a number of the articles on historic sites and added videos to them. The videos are by Roger Griffith (check out his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt00Zq_pjil6mEkwbqRxV3g ), and are informative, interesting and a great addition to the information we’ve already gathered on some of these sites. Many, many thanks to him for giving permission to […]
We’ve just launched this Indiegogo Campaign, it’s to record and put online the headstones in the Old Parish Churchyard in Irvine. The churchyard contains a lot of historical headstones, friends of Robert Burns, Edgar Allan Poe’s step family, John Mennons (who founded the Glasgow Herald) and many more interesting and important characters. But it’s in […]