Unremarkable, that is, unless you take the time to explore. Try looking beyond Sanquhar’s pretty town centre with its shops, tearoom and cash machines to a building on the town’s High Street. It can boast something truly remarkable. For if you send a postcard from Sanquhar Post Office you will have sent it from the oldest post office in the world.for more go to.
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Since 1714 the General Assembly has normally been held annually every May. Moderators take office at the beginning of the General Assembly week in May and hold office for one year. The Moderator of the current year (when a minister) is styled “The Right Reverend”, while past moderators are styled “The Very Reverend”. The location of the parish or other post during the Moderator’s year in office is also listed (in brackets):
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Now aged 95, Docherty spoke with the same authority and humour which distinguished his sermons in Glasgow and Aberdeen, and in his time preaching at the “Church of the Presidents” down the road from the White House. For now, the wedding crowd cheered as the pastor finished his address and hugged his daughter Bridget, who he had just given away as bride. for more click here
Even as Edinburgh could justly claim to be one of the lights of the newly modern world, these splendours concealed a darker side. Scotland’s most notorious serial killers - Burke and Hare - were born in the shadows of Edinburgh’s achievements. for more click here
At her trial in 1857 the whole of Scotland was scandalised by newspaper accounts of pre-marital sex and arsenic poisoning. Yet the young and attractive Miss Smith walked free after a verdict of “not proven”. Even today opinion is split as to whether she was framed, or got away with the murder of Emile L’Angelier. for more click here
Scottish piper Daniel Laidlaw defied poison gas and his own fear to climb from his trench, play ‘Blue Bonnets over the Border’ and inspire troops to advance on the enemy during the Battle of Loos. for more click here
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