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On Tuesday 22nd October IHIG were delighted to host a short visit by Grizelda Bell to Inchinnan Parish Church. Grizelda is the great-grand daughter of Robert Douglas-Campbell whose name appears on the “Blythswood memorial slab” at the front entrance to the church. It was an emotional visit for her Grizelda, her husband and daughter as…
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See link below and the ‘events’ page on facebook for our exciting new 2019/2020 schedule. Lots of interesting meetings to come. Last Thursday of the month, 7pm, Inchinnan Parish Church. https://myinchinnan.org.uk/about-us/
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A letter from America… We were very excited to receive our first enquiry from America via our website! Penny Perry got in touch after coming across our website whilst researching her family tree. She was wondering if we could shed any light on why two brothers called Robert and David White went from Inchinnan to…
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See our new section documenting the extremely successful collaboration between IHIG, Sue Furness and Inchinnan Primary School. We were delighted with the results! Model making schools project – Sue Furness and Inchinnan Primary School
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See the ‘About us’ section for further details. About us
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Rock Rider: St Conval and his Church at Inchinnan by our Historical Consultant Gilbert Markus. Gilbert has surveyed the historical evidence for the medieval church, the cult of its saints – first, Finnian, then Conval and the church’s place in wider political events. His findings rather challenge some of our earlier assumptions. Available via Bill…
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Bill McCallum (Inchinnan Historical Interest Group) The latest digital photography techniques applied to the ancient burial stones at Inchinnan Parish Church have revealed that one of the stones, thought to be medieval in date, was originally carved much earlier and probably commemorated an important person within the Kingdom of Strathclyde. As a part of the…
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On 18th November 2017 Inchinnan Historical Interest Group (IHIG) held a Roundup Conference to bring the local community up to speed with what stage their archaeological project investigating the site of All Hallow’s Church, Inchinnan, had now reached. The project involved geophysics, historical research, workshops, archaeology, model making, photogrammetry, Reflective Transformation Imaging (RTI), music and film…
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Date: Saturday 18th November Time: 1-4pm Location: Inchinnan Parish Church, Greenock Road, Inchinnan. We are delighted to be hosting a Conference to round up the current stage of the project ‘’ 597 ‘AD St Conval to All Hallows – 1420 Years and Counting’. We have been very excited by the findings and looking forward to…