Derek Barber, Steps through Stair: A History of Stair and Trabboch, (Stair, 200), no ISBN, £5.00, 48 pages and more than 30 illustrations.
This little booklet has been published as a Millennium project by Stair Church: any proceeds [almost £4,000 by August 2001] will go to Quarrier's Homes and Erskine Hospital. Mr Barber takes us on a jog-trot through many of the places and personalities associated with the area around Stair Bridge, with sections on the church, the house, the miners' rows at Trabboch, Barskimming (a useful section on a house that is not well documented), the Hone Stone Works and much else besides. The history of the church itself occupies the final section of the book, with events related to the ministries of the various ministers.
Rob Close