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Kirkconnell Parish Church in Dumfriesshire very conveniently had a datestone above its entrance: 1729. Whereas I can guess most church buildings to half a century or so, Kirkonnel’s saved me the trouble and offered a degree of accuracy I could never have attained using my own knowledge.

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The officers and members of Salem Chapel are seeking a new assistant pastor to support and extend the existing work. 

Assistant Pastor Sought | Salem Chapel, Martin Top

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The BBC, biased? Surely not.

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I came down to a pastors’ study week in Shropshire on Monday; last year’s event was wonderfully good for the spirit and stretched my grey cells. I do not care for long drives, but this event made it worthwhile.

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On my town’s war memorial was one M. Winn listed on the Second World War section. Knowing that a branch of my family with that name moved here from Lancaster in the early twentieth century, I wondered if he was ‘one of mine’. He was.

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