This year's Doors Open Day in East Dunbartonshire is on Saturday 7th September 2024. The Society's contribution is an exhibition in the foyer of the William Patrick Library profiling significant local personalities, mostly buried in the Old Aisle Cemetery, Kirkintilloch. In connection with the exhibition, which this year will be on view for the following week, a guided walk around a selection of these graves will start from the cemetery's belfry at the Old Aisle Road entrance at 2.00 pm. The full programme for 2024's Doors Open Day may be downloaded here with details of the Antiquaries exhibition and walk on pages 13 and 14.
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| The grave of Joey Henderson and Robert Somerville. Joey died on 1st March 1929, a few days after giving birth, and her grief stricken husband, Robert, took his own life in December 1931. He was a lecturer in chemistry in the University of Glasgow and had been involved in the campaign to erect a plaque on the birthplace of Archibald Scott Couper at 25 Townhead. (© I.S.Ruddock) |
