Welcome to the homepage for the Semple Stories Lochwinnoch’s Glories Project. This project ran from 2019-2020 and was funded by Greater Renfrewshire and Inverclyde Leader and Heritage Lottery Fund. See the project leaflet for highlights and more information.
The Project Facebook page can be found here and Instagram here. There are also blog and news items on our website you can search for using the key phrase ‘Semple Stories’.
Walks
You can explore Lochwinnoch on foot with the following the project’s self-led guided walks, learning about key points of interest along the way:
Walk 3 – The Old Town and Park
Walk 4 – The ‘C’s of Castle Semple
Activities and Games
There are also Downloadable Activities for Schools and Families around Lochwinnoch village:
Use a camera to complete the ‘Lochwinnoch Then and Now for schools‘ or download, print and tick off the Scavenger Hunt as you wander the streets around the village.
The Project produced a series of downloadable games for children. These are historical games suggested and recounted by Lochwinnoch residents with information on how they were played in the past but also contain modern day updates. The downloads will be of interest to parents looking for things to do and reminiscent for big kids:
You might also find this guide What would you like to know – Conducting an interview useful if you would like to start your own investigation into the past within your family. There are so many resources online for maps on the National Library of Scotland’s website. See this guide for a tutorial – National Library of Scotland Digital Maps Tutorial.
Semple Stories on Site
Find out more about the Semple Estate through to more recent memories on newly installed interpretation boards at Castle Semple. There is also a U-Turn Round with oral histories from former worker Harry Pratt (photographed right) at Muirshiel’s old barytes mine. Solar interpretation posts will be coming soon to Castle Semple Loch, Parkhill and Downies Mound – check back soon for more information.
New U-Turn Round at Muirshiel Mine
As part of the Semple Stories Lochwinnoch Glories oral history project you can now hear the oral history from local
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