Garnock Valley Cultural Connections

Sent a picture before I added a message. If you look closely it's a bad photo, there used to be 12 mature trees along this part of the river but during a storm some years ago at least 5 of them came down and have been lying where they fell ever since . Jacqui Shaw a member of Bypass Art suggested a possible replanting of trees along this part of the burn   

DCDH are applying for funds to set up a heritage trail in Dalry but what we have discovered during this process is that there is so much that we are unable to include in this trail because so much of our heritage has gone, there's nothing left for anyone to see. I was in Irvine and noticed many reminders of their heritage that were  "Written In Stone" and thought it was something that we might be able to do as part of Garnock Connections.　     "Written In Stone" heritage in the town centre and at various locations around the town will highlight our lost heritage, encourage the people reading it to find out more about their town and I am sure we will be able to display some very interesting facts about Dalry.

  We are a group called Bypass Art and our aim is to site a piece of public art, a landmark on the new Dalry Bypass. We would like to see Bessie Dunlop (Witch of Dalry) on the Bypass providing a historical gateway to this part of Ayrshire.   Bessie Dunlop Bessie Dunlop was an ordinary woman living in the 16th century in the Lynn Glen area of Dalry. She was a skeelywife (midwife) with a knowledge of traditional remedies as well as charms and superstitions which she used to help those around her in times of sickness and disease.She also gained the reputation of being a spaewife and people began to seek her help in finding lost and stolen items, and that’s when things started to go terribly wrong for Bessie.She may have lived to a ripe old age had her apparent skills in locating missing items not interfered with the activities of corrupt officials. (case of stolen plough irons and a sheriff officer was bribed not to find them) Or being asked by Willia...

Something that will compliment the Dalry Heritage Trail. We plan to go into both primary schools in the town in the future and do an intergenerational project with I pads. We will arrange visits for the children into the sheltered housing complexes so that they can interview the residents asking what it was like in Dalry when they were young we want memories in the form of "I REMEMBER" What was the town like, what was school like, what did they do for entertainment. We will supply a list of questions but also want the children to ask their own, with the answers they get taken back to the schools and being the basis for discussion with the rest of the class. Would the have liked to have grown up back then, would they have found it boring, how would they have managed without technology or indeed the latest in trainers.   What we would like to do with the " I REMEMBER" is to find some way to display these memories maybe something similar to the sea w...