Due to Covid, an AGM was held on Zoom on 13th May 2021. It was decided that the existing Council should carry on…Continue readingEast Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists’ Society Annual Report 2022
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The Late Herbert Coutts MBE
It is with sorrow that I am intimating the death, after a short illness, of Herbert Coutts. Herbert died on…Continue readingThe Late Herbert Coutts MBE
Zoom talk by David Sowerby, a professional engineer, an amateur Archaeologist and a student of castles, who lives in East…Continue readingSaltcoats Castle and the Livingstones
Zoom talk by Fiona McGibbon, Open University Associate Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Open Learning, Edinburgh University.…Continue readingEast Lothian’s geological journey: from tropical paradise to icy wastes
The Society is pleased to present this zoom talk by John Harrison, Warden, Aberlady Bay Local Nature Reserve, on Thursday…Continue readingAberlady Bay Nature Reserve: from sea to tree and everything in between
A review of Volume 32 of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists’s Society Transactions penned by Don Martin was…Continue readingVolume 32 of the East Lothian Antiquarian’s Transactions is now online
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The Improvers and Beltondod
I gave a university extra mural lecture on the Improvers and Beltondod in Dunbar in 1978 and repeated it in East Linton in…Continue readingThe Improvers and Beltondod
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PRESIDENTS ANNUAL REPORT 2019/2020
The 94th Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at Chalmers Memorial Church Cockenzie on 18th. May 2019. The…Continue readingPRESIDENTS ANNUAL REPORT 2019/2020
Dear Member, I feel I should make a progress report but it is rather a no progress report. I wrote…Continue readingEast Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists Society – 10th August 2020
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A mystery solved: Guns at Bourhouse
The guns at Bourhouse were known to have existed but nothing else was known about them locally. By an amazing…Continue readingA mystery solved: Guns at Bourhouse