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We had a great week-end, with 250 visitors counted through the door. The theme this year was ‘The Key to the Door’, as this is the 21st anniversary of DoD’s, and our giant ‘Great Key of Torthorwald’ was on display! More …

The Easter event this year was again held on Easter Sunday, 24th April, from 11.00am to 4.00pm.

There was great musical entertainment from Ian Warner, Bill McIntosh and Sam Henderson, and Jacqui Hutchison with her electric fiddle. More …

On 23rd September, a unit from ITV filmed part of a documentary at the cottage, on the history and legend of Santa Claus. John Sergeant was the presenter, and also took part as a Santa ‘recruit’, being trained by Stuart Thompson of the ‘Santa School’ from Gretna. More …

The Cruck Easter open day took place on Easter Sunday, 4th April this year.

Alan Pettigrew came along and gave an interesting demonstration of crook making; Gill and Margaret did their bit of spinning and weaving, and Bill and Sam entertained on the accordion and fiddle. More …

We held our Cruck Christmas open night on Saturday, 12th December this year, and it was well attended by local folk, and other friends of the Cruck. More …

All our old friends came along to entertain the visitors: Jimmy and Gloria Younger, Fly-Tyers; Ian and David Warner, Sam Henderson and Bill McIntosh musicians; and Margaret Vaughan and Gill Pettigrew, the Spinners and Weavers. More …

Margaret Vaughan gave another excellent spinning demonstration, and Ian and David Warner entertained everyone on the accordion and ‘wee’ pipes.

Both the Easter Egg and Easter Bonnet competitions attracted a number of entries, and the standard was, as always, amazing. More …

The peat fire was burning, and the guests enjoyed mulled wine, tattie scones and mince pies. Ian Warner brought his accordion along, and entertained us with a selection of tunes. More …

This is the first time that we have organised this ourselves, without the help of Torthorwald School, but it was a tremendous success. More …

The annual Doors Open Days, organised by Solway Heritage, took place this year on Saturday 27th, and Sunday 28th September, 2008.

The theme this year was ‘Water’. More …