Category: Historical

A fascinating account of his 1986 visit to the Falklands and how what he saw there influenced his later life was given to the recent meeting of Largs Probus by military historian and former naval armaments specialist Tom Ward.  In his Read More …

The members of Largs Probus Club were this week treated to a whirlwind tour of nearly 900 years of Paisley Abbey history. The speaker was well qualified to tell the story, a guide in the Abbey and currently holding the Read More …

 Way back in 1963, a young schoolboy was walking across a field near to the Antonine Wall, when he stumbled across a piece of carved and lettered stone. The stone turned out to be part of a Roman altar, which Read More …

Culzean Castle and its historic connection to the Kennedy family was the fascinating subject of a talk by Bill Rogers to a recent meeting of Largs Probus Club. Since 1602 the Kennedy’s were a powerful and ruthless family in the Read More …

For most of the 19th century, the extension of the ‘franchise’ was a dominant political issue and the growing economic and social influence of the skilled middle classes led to agitations across Britain. These agitations were the fascinating subject of Read More …