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The Story of Carmunnock

By Bea Herbert

FOREWORD
1The Story of Carmunnock
2The Middle Centuries
2.1Heritors, Stuarts of Castleton, Mary Queen of Scots
2.2Covenanting Times
2.3Old Tales of Old Places
3The 17th and 18th Centuries
3.1Early Dwellings, Quarries, Stone for Building, Improvements
3.2Food and Some Additives
3.3The Monkeries, Church, Schoolhouse, Merklands and Portioners, the Tammy Linn
3.4Picturing 18th Century Carmunnock
3.5On the Farms and in the Village
4The 19th Century
4.1Improvements to Houses. More Tenements or Lands
4.2Village Industries: Weaving and Washing. Wells
4.3Resurrectionists. Manse. School. Clason Memorial Mission Hall
4.4Old Treasure. Farms. Drinking Houses
4.5Individual Houses, Mansions and More Tenements. Big Windows. Slated Roofs. Castlemilk Hall. Golf Course
5The 20th Century - (Till 1945)
5.1Thatch to Slates. Redevelopment of the School. Farm to Inn
5.2Water. Drainage. Road-Making. Gas-Lighting
5.3Villas. Browns’ Properties. Post Office and Telephone. Coronation 1911. The Blacksmiths. Mr Orlando Young
5.4The Washing Industry
5.5Autocratic Regime, Treats, Sundays, Well Protection, Ponds
5.6Trades. Pastimes, the Founding of the ‘Amateurs’, Shops, the Hoolets’ Nest, Wartime
5.7Davielea, Holiday Place, Artists, War Memorials, Place Names
5.8The Buses. Games and Pranks. Characters
5.9Lennoxs, Crawfords and Grays. Before the Old Picture Fades. Clason Hall. Classifying Street Names. Electricity
5.10Organisations. Royal British Legion. Carmunnock Players
5.11The Cattle Show. Horticultural Society
5.12The Laird
5.13Nostalgia. Golfcourse John. Old Smiddy Closes. Katie Clark’s Window. Hires, Ash Tree Garage. Bus to Town
5.14Further Afield. Charabancs. Bungalows. King George’s Playing Field. The Warnock Trust
5.15The End of an Era. World War II
6Post-War Carmunnock
6.1The 1940s and 1950s
6.2An Incomer’s View
6.3The 1960s
6.4The 1960s - Another ‘End of an Era’?
7Conservation
7.1Carmunnock a Conservation Area
7.2Conservation of the Natural World
8The New Carmunnock
8.1From the 1960s Onwards
8.2Going on as Before
8.3Update
Reference
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

2 The Middle Centuries

This section moves into the medieval history of Carmunnock and the wider district.

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