Within the Stranraer and District Local History Trust website you will find a list of all our local history publications to date, membership information, a list of members, and some background sketches about our authors. For a larger view of the book's covers, please click on that book's image. Approximately 22,000 books sold since our first publication.
 

STOP PRESS! New Publication: "A FLIGHT TOO FAR: THE STORY OF ELSIE MACKAY OF GLENAPP.”

Local historian, Jack Hunter (author of The Loss of the Princess Victoria and The Lost Town of Innermessan) has written a book about the story of Elsie McKay, daughter of the First Earl of Inchcape of Glenapp.
In 1928 Elsie lost her life while attempting to fly the Atlantic from east to west along with Captain Hinchliffe.