COVENANTERS The ancestral seat of the Gordons of Earlstoun stood a few miles north of St. John’s Town of Dalry in Kirkcudbrightshire. William, 3rd Gordon
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Knockshinnoch Disaster
Knockshinnoch Disaster Thursday 7th September 1950 On this day in 1950, after several days of torrential rain, a large inrush of peat moss from the