A special celebration was held on Saturday to mark the reopening of New Galloway Town Hall.
The building, which Local Initiatives in New Galloway took over last year, has undergone a £450,000 renovation.
To mark the occasion, a concert called A Time and a Place took place and there was also the sealing of a time capsule.
The concert featured Glenkens music from the CatStrand singers and guests, Cubs and Kells Primary pupils filling a time capsule, Ian Wemyss providing a drum roll and cymbal crash every time something was placed in the time capsule.
Among the items placed in was Larry Winger’s poem The jackdaws’ Legacy. Larry had removed 150 years’ worth of twigs from the clock tower.
Rose Ardron put in Write Down, featuring Covid lockdown experiences in Galloway, and Barbara Barker and Avril Bridgeman put in items related to New Galloway’s past, with Ann Glaister offering an illustrated account of the refurbishment.
Work at the hall has included installing a lift and disabled toilets, maintaining the 150-year-old clock and restoring the Victorian moral maxims.
