04 November 2011, Starts: 10:15, Ends: 16:30

Travellers, Turnpikes and Tar: 1000 years of Scotland’s roads

Conference of the Scottish Local History Forum

Renfield Centre, Glasgow

Bookings and further information:

Booking form from website or
SLHF Administrator
Box 103, 12 South Bridge,
Edinburgh EH1 1DD
Members £15 (no lunch)
£22 (with lunch)
Non-members £20 (no lunch)

www.slhf.org

Programme:

Diana Webster
What came first, the road map or the road?
Map sources for Scotland’s roads 1550 - 1950.
John Harrison
Not quite a trackless waste: Scotland's pre-Union
roads.
Charles McKean
The impact of wheeled commerce upon the
Scottish 18th century burgh.
Mary Craig
Pilgrims, penance and pathways.
Stuart Nisbet
17th and 18th Century communications
between Glasgow and Port Glasgow.
George Dixon
Beyond Wade and Telford: the making of
Strathspey's roads and bridges,1710s -1830s.
Nigel Bishop
Milestones and mileposts.
Alastair Durie
Early motoring and the roads: dust, mud and
danger.