Pumpherston
History Project
5th
March 2009
Research
at Pumpherston has been progressing rapidly over the last
few months and is now approaching the stage of becoming a
written work. Memories, photographs, secondary sources are
being collated by Tracy Carson and she is now shaping her
research into a short history of Pumpherston and the impact
of the industry upon the people and the village.
21st
October 2009
Pumpherston
was once a thriving mining/refinery community, steeped in
history, long forgotten about. I’m going to develop
a research project which will investigate the background to
Pumpherston and hopefully give you an insight into
how it all began. From the mines, to the development of the
refinery and then the detergents processing plant and now,
lo and behold, an 18-hole golf course. For such a small community,
who would have thought that it would have played such a big
part in history? (Added by Tracy
Carson)
13th
October 2009:
Pumpherston
Industrial Heritage is a new project run by Tracy Carson and
will look at the final years of the Pumpherston Oil Works
and then look at how the land was reclaimed by the local community
to create the Pumpherston Golf Course. The project will cover
a range of historical periods and Tracy will be using a range
of methodologies.
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