Jun 17, 2015 | 2 Pins Centre, Community News, History
The Pinwherry Community hall was built in 1924, Mr Dunlop of Fardenreoch organised the men and boys of the countryside in a voluntary capacity. The site of the present hall was obtained and everyone set to work to level the ground, cart gravel, building materials and...
Sep 1, 2014 | Community News, History, Info
If anyone can provide information for the Cuthbertson Family please reply to enquiries@2pins.org.uk My family history research The Cuthbertson family My great-grandparents James and Jane Cuthbertson lived at Drumspillan Cottage in Pinwherry at the time of Jane’s death...
Apr 24, 2014 | General, History
Please can you help? I have been contacted by a doctor at Glasgow University who is looking for information related to events in Colmonell in 1975 / 1976. Rev Hay Hamilton at Colmonell Church wrote and produced “The Pageant of Colmonell” in 1975 and then...
Sep 24, 2013 | History, Places
Two 2 Pins readers have been in touch to ask for information about houses in the area. If you have any photos or stories that will help them then please get in touch with someone on the committee or email enquiries@2pins.org.uk. 1. “As a child I used to summer...
Dec 8, 2012 | History, Places
New history pages added to the web site: Pinwherry – A History Compiled for the Scottish Women’s Rural Institutes. To say Pinwherry is as old as the hills is no exaggeration. The History of this area starts as far back as the dawn of early civilisation. There is ample...