Do you remember what you were most looking forward to in 2022? For the curatorial team at Auchindrain one of the highlights was always going to be the chance to get our hands on the 1921 census data, helping us to continue building the story of Auchindrain. The 1921 census was subject to the Cens

United Nations declared 2022 as the International Year of Glass. Our friends at the International Association of Agricultural Museums asked us for a collaboration on Auchindrain’s relationship with this versatile material. While glass is an important component in scientific and technologica

At a quarter past midnight on 17th June 1934, Bella Munro of Auchindrain gave birth to a baby girl. She and her husband Malcolm “Cally Stoner” Munro had been married just over two years and were sharing the house we know as building H, Stoner’s House, with Cally’s aged fat

We’ve recently had contact with Emily Taylor, a curator at National Museums Scotland, who’s given us her thoughts on the date of one of our most atmospheric Auchindrain photos. This is of four ladies and a small child doing the washing in front of Building F, which is now a cart shed

In 1971 Alexander Fraser wrote a book entitled Lochfyneside, a History of the District in Recent Times, within which he seems to solve one of Auchindrain’s many mysteries.   When first built, Auchindrain’s longhouses would

Last time you were here and looking at Eddie’s House, did you notice the barrel sunken into the ground by the byre door? Although a barrel has been there since at least the 1890s, it remains one of Auchindrain’s many mysteries. &

One of the only sources of comfort for the tenants of Auchindrain during the long, wet winter months was their fire, stoked with peats and kept burning all day and night. Historically Auchindrain has had two peat banks or diggings used for peat cutting, one to the north and one to the south. Unti

By Trustee, Prof Niall Logan Several of the buildings at Auchindrain were originally longhouses, or byre-dwellings, where the humans and animals shared the same roof and the same doorway; the cattle would live in the downhill end (for drainage), and the humans in the uphill

One of the most common archaeological finds here at Auchindrain is spongewear, a type of pottery this is often Scottish in origin and usually dates from between 1835 to 1935. Ranging from plates to bowls to cups, this type of pottery is characterised by its plain background decorated with one or

In 2012, part of a much-thumbed Gaelic Bible was found in Eddie’s House at Auchindrain, tucked into a gap in the wall above the kitchen sink along with some sheets of newspaper from 1937. Maybe not the obvious thing to use to stop a draught, but out of respect for Holy Scripture the book co

This is a fantastic story that pushes our understanding of industrial Auchindrain back into the mid 18th century. In 1745, young Duncan Munro from Auchindrain joined the Argyll Militia commanded by the Duke of Argyll, and fought for the Hanoverian side. He distinguished himself