A new home for the Antiquaries

In October 2014 problems with our previous meeting venue forced the Antiquaries to look for a new home. We discovered that the Park Centre in Kerr Street, Kirkintilloch, was available on Friday evenings and decided to move there. Two meetings were held in November, including one to make up for the forced cancellation of our October meeting, and a further meeting was held in the Park Centre on 5th December. All three were well attended and many comments appreciative of the ambience of the Park Centre have been received by the Committee. Warm thanks are due to the Society Vice President, Rosalind McMeekin, and the caretaker of the Park Centre, John McLaren, for their part in achieving this smooth transition. However, nothing is ever ‘writ in tablets of stone’ and the Antiquaries Committee is always keen to receive members’ views on options regarding date and place of meeting. Meanwhile we are grateful to have achieved a speedy and apparently painless transition to new surroundings.

Venue for Society's Meetings

As many members already know from experience, the first meeting of the Society's programme for this winter had to be cancelled because Riverside Church was not opened for us despite the date being properly booked. Please accept the apologies of the Committee for this disappointment and wasted evening. A couple of alternative venues are being investigated for the November meeting and, when confirmed, further information will be posted here and members will be informed.