ELAFNS AGM & Outline Summer Programme

This year the AGM will be held on Saturday 14th May 2022 at 2.30pm. Venue the Stables, behind Prestonkirk church. …

East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists’ Society Annual Report 2022

Due to Covid, an AGM was held on Zoom on 13th May 2021. It was decided that the existing Council should carry on…

The Late Herbert Coutts MBE

It is with sorrow that I am intimating the death, after a short illness, of Herbert Coutts. Herbert died on…

Saltcoats Castle and the Livingstones

Zoom talk by David Sowerby, a professional engineer, an amateur Archaeologist and a student of castles, who lives in East…

East Lothian’s geological journey: from tropical paradise to icy wastes

Zoom talk by Fiona McGibbon, Open University Associate Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Open Learning, Edinburgh University.…

Aberlady Bay Nature Reserve: from sea to tree and everything in between

The Society is pleased to present this zoom talk by John Harrison, Warden, Aberlady Bay Local Nature Reserve, on Thursday…

Volume 32 of the East Lothian Antiquarian’s Transactions is now online

A review of Volume 32 of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists’s Society Transactions penned by Don Martin was…

The Improvers and Beltondod

I gave a university extra mural lecture on the Improvers and Beltondod in Dunbar in 1978 and repeated it in East Linton in…

PRESIDENTS ANNUAL REPORT 2019/2020

The 94th Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at Chalmers Memorial Church Cockenzie on 18th. May 2019. The…

East Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists Society – 10th August 2020

Dear Member, I feel I should make a progress report but it is rather a no progress report. I wrote…