Gazette tours Royal Burgh of Lanark Museum exhibition

THERE was a perhaps eerie – and definitely poignant – moment as the Gazette toured the latest annual exhibition at the Royal Burgh of Lanark Museum.

By The Newsroom

Published 30th Jul 2011, 09:00 BST

This year’s theme is Lanark in the Fifties and, at the centre of the display in the Westport building is a glass cabinet containing mementoes of the happiest day in the lives of the late Willie and Cissie Henderson ie; their wedding day back in the summer of 1957.

There alongside Cissie’s then highly fashionable wedding dress and a photograph of the happy couple on the steps of Carstairs Parish Church lies a surviving copy of the order of service for the ceremony.

For more information on this story, pick up a copy of this week’s Carluke and Lanark Gazette which is in the shops now.