Membership
Membership is open to anyone of any age. The main benefits are:
Standard £8, Overseas £12 Sterling. Concessions for seniors, juniors and families. |
The committee cannot normally undertake research for other people. However, they can provide assistance with any suitable project a member may wish to undertake. To join please write to: The Membership Secretary, |
What's Available
Several past and ongoing projects have produced items which could be made available to anyone who enquires. Some items are ready now; some are for sale, while others still require cataloging or editing etc. Some examples are listed:
Previous issues of our quarterly newsletter are of course available. The complete index and the first forty newsletters are on line here. Others may be supplied on request.
Historic Dunning
During 2005 Dunning Parish Historical Society and Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust worked together to produce a new booklet. With a forward by Lord Rollo, this is a very attractive full colour publication of 24 A5 pages. The book gives a good outline of Dunning's history from prehistoric times up to the present, and is intended as a guide to encourage visitors to explore the village and the surrounding countryside. We believe it has achieved these aims, and will also be of interest to distant friends of Dunning.
To order it click here.
CROSSROADS AND CHARACTERS.
Demand for this excellent paperback book has been so great that it has been re-printed.
It is now available for £5 sterling plus post and packing. To order it please click here.
A collection of over 1000 historic photographs of local people and events between 19th Century and 1960. We have recently started the task of cataloguing these.
A large collection of modern colour photographs, mostly taken between 1992 and 93, providing a wide record of community life at that time. These have been catalogued and scanned and could be supplied on CD-ROM by request.
The Society has undertaken five archeological field walks in conjunction with the Tayside and Fife Field Walkers Group. Some significant finds have been uncovered, some documentation and a few photographs are available. We also have a video explaining the activity.
Graveyard survey. A complete list of inscriptions from St Serf's kirkyard. The first headstones date from 1623. This material is widely used by visitors and academic researchers.
40 audiotape interviews with old timers who were born, raised and still live in the village. These are raw footage, currently being edited for publication.
Parish of Dunning Census Records have been transcribed from handwritten public data.
Several wartime evacuees to Dunning have related their experiences of life in the village as video or audio recordings. The resulting book: Here Come The Glasgow Keelies (ISBN 0-9536837-0-2) was extremely popular and is now completely sold out. However, we can supply it on request as a pdf file on CDROM for £10 plus postage.
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Videotape Programmes Made by the Society are available in VHS, PAL and NTSC. Titles include:- |
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Newest Titles: £8.99 each to non-members:
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Older Titles, £8.99 for two on a tape:
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Copies may also be ordered of a video 'Dunning Remembered' containing the four programmes shown at the March 2000 meeting:
- 'Dunning's Special Hogmanay' (about the Hogmanay 2000 celebrations) 12 mins.
- 'Dunning and its Evacuees' (about the 1999 reunion and our unique relationship with our World War II evacuees) 20 mins.
- 'Wildlife in a Village Garden' (the David Doig/Lorne Wallace collaboration) 16 mins.
- 'The Thorntree' (updated version of an earlier programme about Dunning's famous tree) 9 mins.
This may be ordered either in PAL or NTSC (North American) format. Cost is £7.95 for members, £9.95 for non-members (if required, add 50p for post and packing within UK or £2.50 air mail).
