A History by Jack Hunter

...a maths teacher and then a headmaster. He is now retired and lives in Creetown.

In 1937 the grocery business and post office was owned by John M'Haffie. After the Second World War the owner was Johnnie Wallace, who, like Bob Donaldson, provided a taxi service. His son Ian became postmaster in Port William and retired a few years ago.

An unusual business in Whauphill in the 1920's was the Whauphill Farm Farriers Association. This was a co-operative venture set up by local farmers to provide blacksmithing services as they felt the local smithies were too expensive. It does not seem to have been very successful

Whauphill has a claim to literary fame. In the novel Poor Things by well known Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, the narrator, Dr Archie McCandless, is a native of the village.