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.