DONALD L REID BA FSA Scot

The Speaker for All Occasions

DONALD L REID BA FSA Scot
7 Manuel Avenue
Beith, Ayrshire KA15 1BJ
Tel: 01505-503801
M: 07814614345
E: donaldleesreid@hotmail.com
web: http://www.donaldreid.org.uk

Ayrshire Historian, author and after-dinner speaker, Donald L Reid, has a deep and abiding love for Ayrshire, especially the Doon and Garnock Valleys. He hopes you enjoy visiting this small site and that you return at some time in the future. He hopes to keep it right up to date with speaking engagements.

I can do no better than begin with a short but lively quotation from two of my own favourite poets:

"And let the lesson be, to be yourselves,
And dinna fash if its to be ocht else;
To be yourselves, and to mak that worth being,
Nae harder job to mortals has been gi'en."
Hugh McDairmid

"We plug away, we make no fuss,
Our feats are never crowned,
But then its commom coves like us
that makes the world go round;
And as we steer a steady course,
By Gods predestine plan,
Hats off to that almight force - The Ordinary Man.
Robert W Service

TALKS, LECTURES AND AFTER DINNER SPEECHES

Full details of Donald's varied talks/lectures and after-dinner engagements are highlighted on page 1 & 2 of this site. Contact details are shown below. Page 2 highlights all talks taking place in 2008.

Donald L Reid is already committed to speak at many Burns Suppers in 2008.

See Page 2 on this site for Donald's many 2008 speaking engagements.

AYRSHIRE INTEREST BOOK
(Softback & Hardback available)

Robert Burns'
VALLEY OF DOON
(An Ayrshire Journey Down Memory Lane)
(ISBN: 0 9522720 2 4)

Copies in hardback or softback still available from:
D L Reid
7 Manuel Avenue, Beith, Ayrshire KA15 1BJ
Tel: 01505-503801
E: donaldleesreid@hotmail.com

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Donald's most recent publication:
MORE OLD BEITH
published in December 2006 is ONLY AVAILABLE from shops or direct from Stenlake Publishers, Mill Square, Catrine. Donald DOES NOT have copies of this book.

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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

SEE PAGE 1 & 2 FOR A LIST OF DONALD REID'S SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS ON SUBJECTS RANGING FROM:

(a) THE DOON VALLEY
(b)THE LOST VILLAGES OF DOON VALLEY
(c) DR HENRY FAULDS TO SHIRLEY McKIE
(FINGERPRINTS ON TRIAL)
(d) ROBERT W SERVICE - POET OF THE PEOPLE
(Joint Talk with Iain D Shaw)
(e) IN THE NEWS - REPORTING FOR THE A & S HERALD
(f) THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OR TOASTS TO THE LASSIES FOR BURNS SUPPERS.
(g) AFTER DINNER SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

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DALMELLINGTON BAND - PATRON SCHEME

If you love the Doon Valley and its famous brass band why not consider becoming a band patron. It costs only £10 per year (albeit many give more than that) and details from Dalmellington Band President:
Bert Ritchie, "Glenauchen", 10 Ayr Road, Dalmellington KA6
Tel: 01292-550250

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You may enjoy visting the following Ayrshire related sites:

http://lochdoon.mysite.orange.co.uk

http://DunaskinVeteranGroup.mysite.orange.co.uk

http://barrmilljollybeggars.mysite.orange.co.uk

http://henryfaulds.mysite.orange.co.uk

http://ayrshirebooks.mysite.orange.co.uk

http://www.dalmellingtonband.org.uk

http://benwhat.mysite.orange.co.uk

http://patna.mysite.orange.co.uk

http://corbiecraigs.mysite.orange.co.uk

http://craigmark.mysite.orange.co.uk

www.ayrshireroots.com
Interest in Ayrshire family and social history

http://makarpress.co.uk
Relating to well known Scottish poet, Rowena M Love, based in the West of Scotland

www.poetryscotland.com
(Treasure-trove for this interested in poetry in Scotland)

http://hmsdasher.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk
(379 lives were lost on HMS Dasher in 1943 in the Firth of Clyde. This site is a tribute to the officers and men)

DETAILS OF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS BY DONALD L REID REFER TO PAGE 1 ON THIS SITE

Hardback and softback copies of
ROBERT BURNS' VALLEY OF DOON
have been donated to the libraries at the following Doon Valley Schools:

Dalrymple Primary
Patna Primary
St Xavier's Primary
Dalmellington Primary
Bellsbank Primary
and
Doon Academy

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"May the Sons of Our Sons Remember, Dalmellington (and the Doon Valley) With Pride."