Heritage society seeking photos

Festival:

Carmyllie Heritage Society is looking for old photographs as it plans to create a permanent display in the village hall.

The group is particularly keen to source photographs of Carmyllie Mart from the 1920s and 1930s.

Committee member Alexander Whitton said: “We have only been able to find one photograph of the mart.”

Money for the project has come from funds raised by the sale of a book called Carmyllie: Its Land and its People, written by Heritage Society chairwoman Anne Law.

Mr Whitton can be contacted at alexanderwhitton@ btinternet.com or by calling 01241 890306.

Carmyllie Heritage will meet on March 20 in Carmyllie Church hall at 7pm when Ann Craig from Auchmithie will reenact the childhood and young life of Annie Gilruth. winter blues and promote a sense of physical and mental wellbeing.

The main, free event will run from 10am to 4pm.

There is a Feel Good Fair and Health Fair in the Town Hall as well as various groups doing singing, dancing and karate demonstrations on the stage.

In the Old Parish Church there will be a selection of workshops and taster sessions including juggling and other circus arts, singing, Scottish country dancing, tea dancing, arts and crafts, journal making, coaching workshops, karate and messy family play.

Kirrie Connections in Bank Street will host six public talks, again with a wideranging appeal including birds and other local wildlife with Gus Guthrie; Liam and Ashlie Wilies’s fight to save their daughter’s sight; Shari Sidley on Aloe Vera and its benefits; Jim Smith on his poetry with humour; Graham Galloway on the importance of getting rights for dementia sufferers and Amanda Kopel on the latest about Frank’s Law.

A number of businesses and venues around the town will have special offers and special activities for children, including finger knitting and pompom making at Glengate Wools and arts and crafts at Pixie Dust.

There will be yoga tasters for adults at Samaya in Cumberland Close.

All profits will go Kirriemuir Day Centre and Mercy Ships.