Determined, stubborn, passionate, brave: all words to describe Tommy Henderson, who, as chairman of Dalbeattie Museum, has drawn on all of these characteristics in his ongoing quest to bring his beloved hometown to a wider audience.

I’ve always felt that the Hollywood directors of the Fifties and Sixties got it wrong. Wild West indeed! In my humble opinion, it had nothing on the Anglo/Scottish Borders some 400 years ago when Elizabeth I was on the English throne and James VI was champing on the bit further north.