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Inside the Ukrainian POW Chapel, Lockerbie
Entrance to the Ukrainian POW Chapel, Lockerbie
Thomas Carlyle Birthplace Home, Ecclefechan
Thomas Carlyle Statue, Ecclefechan, Dumfries & GallowayLockerbie Tourist Information, Lockerbie Golf, Thomas Carlyle Ecclefechan
Lockerbie makes a good base for pushing into both Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders. Lockerbie Ice Rink offers a choice of entertainment from renowned curling events to public ice skating sessions. Check the Lockerbie Ice Rink website right for details.
Lockerbie's 18 hole parkland golf course was founded in 1890 and offers splendid views of the Annandale Hills and across to Dumfries to the West and the Lake District to the South. Water hazards on this golf course make it a good challenge. Lockerbie Golf Club has full bar and catering facilities on-site, and no handicap certificate is required. In the small village of Ecclefechan just 5.5miles SE of Lockerbie sits the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle.
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Lockerbie Tourist Information - Lockerbie Ice Rink, Lockerbie Golf Course & Eskrigg Nature Reserve
Just 1.6 miles south west of Lockerbie town Centre, the Eskrigg Nature Reserve run by Lockerbie Wildlife Trust is well worth a visit. (see Lockerbie Wildlife Trust website right for location details). The Eskrigg Reserve sits directly alongside the Dryfesdale Lodge Visitors' Centre, and you can obtain walking mpas and information on woodland walks in the reserve from here. Use the Cemetary car park if coming by car. With a conservation edge, here at Eskrigg you'll see an abundance of wildlife and plants, with ample information boards and woodland walk trails.
Lockerbie Golf Course & Golf Club, Corrie Road, Lockerbie DG11 2ND. Tel. 01576 203363. (see Lockerbie Golf Course weblink right for details).
This Dumfries & Galloway Golf course is an 18 hole parkland course with a Par 67. Lockerbie Ice Rink, 14 Glasgow Road, Lockerbie, DG11 2AR. Tel. 01576 202197 (weblink right for details, and see also the weblink for Lochmaben Golf Club situated just 4 miles to the west of Lockerbie on the A709).
Ukrainian POW Chapel, Lockerbie
Just to the South of Lockerbie towards Dalton sits the Ukrainian POW Chapel - an important site in the post war history of the area which like many areas across the UK was host to a number of Ukrainian refugees. They arrived in May 1947 via Glasgow Docks, and remained as return to the Soviet Union meant death or imprisonment in Siberia.
The Ukrainian refugees worked for the Ministry of Agriculture on fams and in local forestry areas. One POW, Mr Fallat, planted an orchard on the site with fruit seeds brought from Italy.
The chapel was elaborately decorated by the POWs, and they mixed and were welcomed by the local community. Plays and dances put on by the Ukranian POWs were well attended and popular. Visit the chapel to find out more.
Ukrainian POW Chapel, Muirhill, Lockerbie, Dumfries & Galloway, DG11, Scotland. Tel. 01576 204025.
Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace, Ecclefechan near Lockerbie
In the small village of Ecclefechan just 5.5miles SE of Lockerbie sits the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle. He also went to school and worked as a teacher at nearby Annan Academy. Unlike many birthplace homes of famous notables, this one hasn't been russled up and heavily embellished and renovated. Carlyle's birthplace has been open since 1883 and is now run by the National Trust for Scotland (website right).
Thomas Carlyle is an interesting character, credited often as the forerunner to socialist thought, although his later writings moved wildly adrift more akin to fascism. Carlyle was born in this house in Ecclefechan in 1795, and inside today you can view a selection of his personal items and a collection of portraits. Little has changed here since the house opened in 1883.
Carlyle's earlier writing subjects included the French Revolution and Chartism. Social historian, Victorian radical, heavily influenced by German Literature (much of which he translated), and renowned for his clothing metaphors in 'Sartor Resartus' and political analysis of the day, Carlyle ended up justifying authoritarianism - he leaned towards those who demonstrated it such as Neopoleon on whom he wrote a book. The Victorian Web (linked right) offers an excellent introduction to Thomas Carlyle pre your visit to his birthplace.
Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace, Ecclefechan, Dumfries & Galloway, DG11 3DG. Tel. DG11 3DG.
Lockerbie Disaster Memorial, Dryfesdale Lodge Visitors' Centre
Just to the West of Lockerbie the Dryfesdale Lodge Visitors' centre is a fitting memorial to all those who lost their lives in the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am flight 103. Two hundred and seventy people died, all 259 passengers and crew and 11 Lockerbie residents. The peaceful site is Dryfesdale Cemetary, and within the Lockerbie Memorial Garden of Remembrance, a semicircular memorial wall here lists the names of all those who died in the tragedy alongside memorial stones for all the victims. Books of rememberance are held at both Lockerbie public library and Tundergarth Church.
The two exhibition rooms at Dryfesdale Lodge are quiet rooms where visitors can reflect. A permanent exhibition looks at Lockerbie's history and includes details on the 1988 terroist plane bombing. Furnishings are here from the relatives room at Kamp van Zeist in the Netherlands where the trial of the two accused Libyans accused of the bombing was held.
The Transport Museum in Glasgow, working with relatives of the Lockerbie Disaster victims, is currently (2007) in talks to acquire parts of the Boeing 747 Maid of the Skies aircraft to sit within exhibits there on the Lockerbie plane bombing. First screened in November 1998, the BAFTA award winning documentary, "Lockerbie: A Night Remembered (1998) by acclaimed documentary maker Mike Grigsby is a thoughtful and hard hitting Made for Channel 4 documentary on the Lockerbie air disaster. Grigsby returned to Lockerbie 10 years after the tragedy and this documentary contains moving testimony by those affected and explores how the media, who descended on the town at the time, deserted it when the disaster was nolonger newsworthy. (see the South Wst Screen Commission's weblink right for details and the Lockerbie Disaster Campaign website).
The Dryfesdale Lodge Visitors' Centre, Dumfries Road, Lockerbie, Dumfries & Galloway, DG11 1HZ. Tel International. 00 44 1576 205962. (UK 01576 205962). Situated just to the west of Lockerbie.
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