Started in 1999, the project has gone through many stages. The time came for a major reorganisation of the site. Apologies to those who have bookmarked pages. The overall structure is similar and the change from HTML to WordPress means the page addresses have changed. The familiar articles are being restored gradually.
The content, as before, includes my Laird Family, Aberdeenshire, Caithness, Norway, Clan Sinclair, Scottish History and International.
The subsidiary site is www.laird.scot
21st December : The Winter Solstice. The gently sloping passageway entering the monumental Maeshowe chambered tomb in Orkney is aligned so that at sunset during the three weeks before and after this the shortest day of the year so the light of the setting sun shines straight down it to illuminates the back of the central chamber. The sun’s rays align with a standing stone, the Barnhouse Stone, standing 800 m SSW of Maeshowe. Built around 5,000 years ago, Maeshowe is the finest Neolithic building in North West Europe. It is a masterpiece of Neolithic design and stonework construction, not least for its use of massive individual stones.
Cluny War Memorial
The Memorial lists the names of the fallen of the two World Wars. This page has full details of the fallen including Service Numbers, Date of Death, where buried or commemorated, their local connection, and in a number of cases the events which caused their death. We are missing details for the first name on the Memorial, George W Barron, and we have not been able to confirm which of (now) two local men, both Private Soldiers who died in WWI is the Charles Thomson listed on the Memorial.