A lifeboat station was first established at Campbeltown in 1861. The Severn Class lifeboat the Ernest and Mary Shaw came into service in 1999. The D-class lifeboat D-571 Three Brothers came into service in 2001. Three silver medals, 9 bronze medals, and 3 certificates have been awarded over the years to Campbeltown crew for rescues at sea, in 2001 for rescuing 2 men from the grounded fishing vessel Sincerity.

]]> New build Police Station on a brownfield site in the centre of Campbeltown, replacing the existing and outdated Victorian police station on Castlehill. Its contemporary appearance over 2 floors will house new administration, operational and custodial facilities, reflecting the policing requirements of today’s society.

]]> Following the Prisons (Scotland) Act in 1839, the Argyllshire Prison Board was formed to oversee the prisons in Inveraray, Campbeltown and Tobermory. After much deliberation the Board secured a site for a new prison on the Castlehill. Thomas Brown designed this new prison, which was completed in 1847. The former Police Station was added to the northern side in the early 20th Century and remained in use until 2009 when the police moved into a modern building at Hazelburn.

]]> Fifteen months ago we asked the Edinburgh firm of Simpson and Brown to look at the site of the old Community Hall and design a centre fit for the 21st century that the population of Inveraray would be proud to own. We have a design to show the people and we need the residents of Inveraray to choose what they would like to do within the centre.

]]> Machrimore Oatmeal Mill replaced in 1799 an earlier mill dated to 1634. It continued working until c 1960 when in the process of conversion into a grain-drying operation all internal machinery was lost. Historic Scotland B listed it in 1971.

Sympathetically restored, it is now let as a holiday house.

]]> A rare opportunity to explore part of Scotland's military history at the former RAF Machrihanish in Kintyre. The 1000 acre site boasting a 10,000ft runwayis operated by Machrihanish Airbase Community Company (MACC) it is home to around 50 private and commercial tenants ranging from a 50m indoor shooting range to a Wind Tower Factory.?

]]> Longrow Church was designed by John Burnet Snr. Currently known as Lorne & Lowland Church following several congregational amalgamations. The lighthouse-like 150' steeple dominates the town. Two stairways lead from the entrance to a classically decorated raked horseshoe gallery on columns. The building is listed Category B.?Extensive refurbishment in 2003 included the restoration of the original colour scheme of 1886.?

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]]> The old Graveyard surrounding the ruins of the original church is not currently accessible because of dangerous condition. Later graves dating from 1857 onwards tell of the fascinating family histories of the town.

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Inveraray Church was designed and built by Robert Mylne between 1795 and 1802. It was built to house two congregations, the English, or Lowland Church, and the Gaelic, or Highland Church - a solid wall separated the two.

?In 1957 the Gaelic Church was converted into a Church Hall and its gallery was enclosed to form the Paul Fraser Memorial Chapel, named in honour of Reverend Doctor Paul Fraser, author of the parish Statistical Accounts of 1793, who was minister here when the Church was built. The English Church was remodelled in 1898 under instruction of Duchess Ina, the third wife of the Eighth Duke of Argyll.

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]]> The tower was built as a war memorial by the Tenth Duke of Argyll, Niall Diarmid Campbell to mark the huge loss of life in the great war and especially those members of Clan Campbell who came from the local towns and villages.

The Duke conceived the idea of building a tower and installing a set of bells at the end of the War in 1918. The bells were actually cast first and delivered in 1921 before work on the tower began. Meanwhile the Duke commissioned architects Hoare and Wheeler of London to design the tower, the final decision being accepted in 1926. Eventually in 1930, the tower, at 39m(128ft) high, was finished and the bells weighing nearly 8 tonnes were installed by Christmas 1931.

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A Huf Haus is a state-of-the-art, bespoke, timber-frame design which connects living with nature.

The Huf Haus at Ascog, Isle of Bute, was completed in the early spring of 2011. The key objectives were to build a contemporary highly efficient house and to maximize the amount of glazing and at the same time be able to enjoy and connect with the outstanding natural surroundings. The house is orientated towards the spectacular views and opens up to the South to optimize passive solar heat gain. The design takes advantage of the slope, provides additional living space and helps to reduce the footprint of the house.

Open floor plan living on the ground floor and maximizing the amount of glazing allows the house to open up to all surrounding views. The main building material is timber, which has been sustainably forested. The house is very well insulated; all glazing is triple glazed with excellent insulation values. Minimal energy from fossil fuels is required with heat and hot water provided through a ground source heat pump with electricity from 51 PV panels roof array. Off-site manufacturing reduced the build time to just three months.

Guided tours by the owners Tony and Beryl Harrison will look at the architecture, construction and energy efficient features of the house.

]]> In the Victorian age, Campbeltown was known as the whisky capital of the world- one of the five distinctive malt producing regions of Scotland. Glen Scotia is a fine example of this historic Campbeltown style, and now, as we introduce an extended range, it is about to be discovered by a new generation.

]]> Dunaverty?s new Community Hall replaces the old Drill Hall of 1913, which became the Village Hall for Southend in 1965. Visitors will have a chance to find out how the local community?s perseverance and hard work has resulted in this splendid new building which will become the hub of the village for the community and visitors, alike. Plans include a Post Office, meeting and leisure facilities with changing rooms, heritage room and community garden.

]]> Craigard House was built in 1182 in the Italianate style, popular at the time. It was designed by architect, Henry Clifford, for the local Whisky Distiller, William McKersie, and remained in the same family until 1942, when it was purchased by the local Council to become a Maternity Home, which ran until 1973.

]]> The Forest Heritage Scotland project held a Come Listen to the Crofters event. Traditional Highland folk stories were told at the stunning venue of Arichonan, a deserted township.??

]]> South Kintyre Development Trust (SKDT) are delighted to announce that the newly refurbished Campbeltown Town Hall will be included in this year's programme.

A true example of community empowerment, SKDT secured the future of this magnificent, B listed building with support from our local community, volunteers and project funders - Big Lottery, Campbeltown THI, Argyll and Bute Council CHORD and Historic Scotland.

Reopened earlier this year, the building now offers a top class venue and has already hosted a range of events, including weddings, public performances and of course, the occasional coffee morning.

]]> Designed by Thomas Brown, an Edinburgh architect, and completed in 1847 as the Prison; altered in 1871. Now Campbeltown Police Station. Further alterations were completed in April 2002, and an extension will be built commencing in October 2003.

]]> Campbeltown Museum is housed in the magnificent Burnet Building designed by architect John James Burnet. The bas-relief sculptures on the exterior illustrate the industry of Kintyre including ship-building, distilling and mining. This story continues inside with objects and artworks linked to Kintyre’s industrial heritage.

]]> Within original walled garden contemporary with the house Auchinlee (1886). The neglected garden was remodelled in 2002 with volunteer labour as a community working organic garden, featuring fruit trees, vegetables, soft fruits and sensory and herb beds and a wildlife area. Primary school children tend their own areas.

]]> The bunkhouse opened in 2012 following the repair and conservation of the Old Schoolhouse, a Grade B listed building. The repair project was developed and delivered by the Kintyre Amenity Trust in partnership with Argyll and Bute Council and HIE. Facilities include; 16 beds, a kitchen, showers/toilets, drying facilities and a dining area.

]]> Built in 1928 for Lochgilphead?s primary school-aged children, the building is now home to the Archives. People continue to be educated within its rather utilitarian walls; however they are no longer subjected to the tawse if they don?t pay attention.

The Archives houses the memory of Argyll and Bute ? the records created by the people who have lived and worked here for the past 600 years including paupers, schoolchildren, criminals and victims of crime.

]]> The Ardshiel Hotel was once home to one of Campbeltown’s wealthy distilling families. It was designed and built in 1877 by prominent Victorian architect, John Burnet Senior, and over the past four years has been lovingly restored to its former glory – visitors can enjoy many of its original features and find out about its connections with the town’s distilling history. http://www.ardshiel.co.uk/

]]> A beautiful, private, 5 acre garden with a vast collection of rhododendrons, camellias, shrubs, herbaceous, ponds and wildflower meadows.

It has many innovative features including fountain sculptures and analemma.

]]> Forfar Small Bore Rifle Club is an active small bore target rifle club offering 0.22 Target Rifle at 25 yds (indoor) and 6 yard air pistol target shooting. The club was the first in Scotland to benefit from electronic targets and recently celebrated its 80th anniversary.

A public meeting was held in Forfar in the Meffan Hall in the evening of Monday 24 October 1937 to propose the formation of a miniature rifle club in the town. The meeting chairman was the local Chief Constable D. C. Christie. The resolution was unanimously adopted and a committee was appointed to look into premises, finances etc.[Forfar Herald 28/10/37]

By December that year, the club had been formed as the Forfar and District Small Bore Rifle Club and had raised the necessary finance through a loan of £350 from James Lindsay who was the Postmaster at Letham, Angus at a very reasonable interest rate of 4%. This interest was paid annually to Mr Lindsay (after deducting tax!) until September 1951 when £150 of the loan was paid off with the balance being paid off in November 1953. The club was also paying £2 10/- half annually in ground rent to a Mr. Bowen and in January 1955 the ground was purchased (very cheaply) for £100.

Visit the club to see the facilities and a firearms demonstration.

Suitable for children aged 12+, must be accompanied by an adult.

]]> Montrose Library, gifted to the town by Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, dates back to 1905 when it was opened by MP John Morley. Today’s new modern space is the second ANGUSalive Library to undergo refurbishment works which have been sympathetic to the original features whilst enhancing it for generations to come.

Join Montrose Library staff member Jacqui Church and Angus Council’s Interior Designer and refurbishment project manager, Tracy Smith, on a guided tour to explore the history of the building and services, the original architectural features of this A-Listed building, and the recent restoration works.

]]> The Pictish Room in Aberlemno is home to a collection of Pictish replica stones, carvings and interpretation boards that celebrate our diverse Pictish heritage.

It is located at the back of the Village Hall, adjacent to the celebrated Aberlemno Sculptured Stones and a short walk from the famous Cross Slab which is in the Aberlemno Churchyard.

]]> Opened in 1898 and gifted to the people of Forfar as The Meffan Institute, today the Meffan Museum and Art Gallery is ANGUSalive’s flagship professional gallery for contemporary art exhibitions.

The Meffan is also home to the largest store of Angus Council’s fine art collection, cared for by ANGUSalive.

Join ANGUSalive Museums & Galleries staff to learn more about the picture store, exploring the different types of artwork collected for the people of Angus over more than 100 years. The team will also showcase some of the conservation work that has taken place in recent years, with before and after examples and detailed conservator work reports for some items.

]]> The Glenesk Museum at the Retreat offers visitors an inspiring experience of the local and global stories of Glenesk. This is a wonderful chance to visit this special place while it is temporarily closed for the season to allow for restructuring.

Come and hear our plans for a sustainable future and share your own ideas. There will be no catering however visitors are welcome to bring picnics to enjoy both indoors and outside.

]]> Visit the Hub @ Friockheim Community Hub which opened in January 2019. Based in the former Eastgate Primary School, The Hub @ Friockheim is a fully inclusive project involving the whole community which is owned, managed and operated by the community itself as a registered charity.

The Hub provides a wide range of facilities which are open to all including Café (open daily), Fitness Suite, Sensory Room, Changing Places Facility, Sports Hall, Meeting Rooms. There is a varied schedule of activities and classes and Community Services.

]]> Arbroath’s Signal Tower Museum, near Arbroath Harbour, was the shore station and family accommodation for the Bell Rock Lighthouse which stands 11 miles off-shore. The tower was used as a simple method of communication between the lighthouse and the on-shore station. Today, the tower room provides spectacular views over Arbroath and the North Sea, including the Bell Rock Lighthouse on a clear day.

Join ANGUSalive Museum staff on a guided tour up the tower to hear more about the shore station days of the site, the use of the tower, and the shore station’s relationship with keepers on the Rock.

]]> Humpty House was the winner of Dundee Institute of Architects’ Supreme Award 2017. It is a contemporary family home and architect’s office, overlooking Lintrathen Loch.

The house is located to the south west of Bridgend of Lintrathen.

]]> The Town & County Hall is the current Council Chambers of Angus Council.

]]> Enjoy a guided walk of the town with Forfar and District Historical Society. This two hour walk will follow the old shoreline of Forfar Loch where it bounded the Royal Burgh.

]]> Displayed and interpreted inside a converted cottage, this is one of the most important collections of Pictish Christian stones. It includes the Drosten Stone, which carries a remarkable inscription and includes a hooded hunter and a squatting imp.

]]> This beautiful late 19th century church was designed by Alexander Ross of Inverness and is built in early pointed gothic style.

]]> The William Lamb Studio was built by William Lamb A.R.S.A. as his working Studio in 1934. It – and his artworks – was bequeathed to Montrose on his death in 1951. Since 1978 it has been run as a small gallery museum and contains an outstanding collection of Lamb’s internationally important works – sculptures in stone, wood, plaster & bronze as well as etchings, watercolours and portfolios of preparatory drawings.

His portraits and figurative people cover not just the ordinary fisher-people at their work – but the celebrities – Hugh MacDiarmid, Violet Jacob, Edward Baird, Alfred Hollins & David Foggie. Plus his royal commissions too – the late Queen Elizabeth and her daughters the Princesses Margaret Rose (2) and Elizabeth (6) cast in 1933. Friends will act as guides to the collections and talk about the people, great and small, and Lamb’s extraordinary life and artworks.

]]> The WebsterTheatre in Arbroath was originally built as the Webster Memorial Theatre and was converted to an Arts Centre in 1970. It is now a multi-purpose performance venue. It is a category C listed building. Historic Scotland’s listing reference details the building as James Maclaren, 1865; renovated and extended 1951, 1967 and 2008. Well-detailed 2-storey, 5-bay Classical public hall and theatre in prominent High Street position, with modern extensions to rear. Ground floor with channelled detail and vermiculated quoins, polished ashlar Doric columns and pilasters, carved head keystone over centre door; 1st floor with vermiculated pilasters with later high relief carved thistle capitals supporting entablature with triglyphed frieze and cavetto cornice; centre pediment with blind oculus in tympanum is flanked by further set-back entablature with plain (altered?) frieze and carved detail at dies. Ashlar with dry dash to sides and rear. Roundheaded openings to centre door at ground and 1st floor. Keystoned hoodmoulds and voussoirs. FURTHER DETAIL: principal E elevation with modern semicircular canopy fronting 3 centre bays which comprise 2-leaf door and decoratively-astragalled semicircular fanlight to blind portico at centre flanked by deep-set 2-leaf doors with multi-pane fanlights; windows to outer bays. 1st floor with regular full-height fenestration. All bays with dividing pilasters.8- and 12-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows at principal elevation. Grey slates.INTERIOR: largely reworked during 2008 modernisation, including foyer, staircase and theatre. 1st floor hall retains fine decorative plasterwork to cornices and ceiling.The principal elevation of the Webster Memorial Theatre, by local architect James Maclaren, has retained much of its original character and it makes a significant contribution to Arbroath’s largely 19th century High Street. Formerly known as The Public Hall, the building was renovated in 1951, the stage and auditorium were enlarged in 1970 and further work was carried out in 2007 after which the building was re-opened by Provost Ruth Leslie Melville MBE on 19th January 2008. The success of this work was recognised when Angus Council Property Division received the 2008 RIAS DIA award for Best Example of Environmental Improvement / Conservation. When opened in 1865, the building contained 'a museum and a large hall for concerts and public meetings' (Groome). It hosted touring plays and vaudeville, but was not successful until local flax manufacturers, the,Webster family gave their support and eventually gifted it to the town in memory of their son who was killed in the First World War. During the 1930s the Arbroath Follies became popular summer spectacles. The 1st floor hall retains portraits of Janet Webster (1819-1908) and Sir Francis Webster (her son). The latter, by Robert Gibb RSA, was presented by 'Arbroath Liberals and Other Friends, In Recognition of His Eminent Public Services, Arbroath 20 April 1912'. Architect James Maclaren was born in Dundee in 1829, he worked at David Bryce's Edinburgh office and won the Soane medallion in 1848. He returned to Dundee in 1850 and set up practice with his brother. Maclaren worked extensively in the Angus, Dundee and Perth area and during the 1860s his commissions included industrial work at Cox's Stack, Dundee, churches at Forfar and Hawkhill, tenements at Broughty Ferry and Blackness, hotels, private house and public buildings. Listed as part of the Theatres Thematic Study 2008-09.

]]> A multi-faceted day support service for older adults in and around Brechin. The rear of the property presents a different view of Brechin up the High Street and towards Brechin Castle. Guided tours will be available.

]]> Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club was founded in 1968 and is home to a unique collection of historic vehicles and associated items. The purpose built premises at Bridge View House allows SVVC to have office space, a workshop and showroom. This is a fantastic opportunity to see the vehicles and get to know more about SVVC.

]]> To visit this listed walled garden designed by Archibald Simpson, which dates from 1827, please collect the key from Stracathro Services. For more information contact Pat Melville Evans on 01674 840048.]]> Dedicated to the patron saint of Arbroath, St Thomas of Canterbury RC Church was opened in February 1848. With its distinctive twin turrets it was described as “an ornament to the town” and remains so today. It is home to the only neo-classical chamber organ of its size in the UK. The architect was George Mathewson of Dundee and is category B listed.

There will be a short recital on the neo-classical chamber organ at 1230.

]]> St Vigeans Church dates from the 12th century and is the original parish church of Arbroath. It sits on a kaim which makes it of interest to geologists. The church also has a number of Consecration Crosses which mark the date 1242 when the church was consecrated.

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St Mary's was designed by Sir Ninian Comper to replace a classical church of 1797 which had been destroyed by fire. It is built in an Arts and Crafts style and was consecrated in 1904. It is A-listed.

J M Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, spent his childhood in this small whitewashed cottage. The cottage is a typical weaver’s house; everyone lived upstairs and the windows are large so that looms could be removed.

Stop by the washhouse where the young author performed his first play at the age of seven and that provided inspiration for the Wendy House in Peter Pan, see the box beds where the Barrie children would have slept crowded together and look out for original costumes from the first production of Peter Pan.

]]> Visit one of Scotland’s leading design practices who work with clients to create award winning building solutions which satisfy their current and future requirements. James F. Stephen Architects is one of the most successful architectural practices in Scotland having undertaken work as far afield as Spain, Rome, Bordeaux and Dubai. The building received a Royal Institute of British Architects' commendation in 1987. It featured in an RIBA journal in 1992, described as 'a consistent use of stone, slate and glass and stained timber in the modernist manner resulting in a style with which most people can identify'. ]]> In 1898, Lieutenant Colonel Robert William Inglis, the son of a local minister, gifted the Inglis Memorial Hall and its library to Edzell. Come and view an original Victorian library, find out how it worked and how it served the people of Edzell. Explore the audio visual presentation featuring the Colonel and his family, the building and opening of the hall and library and places to visit in and around Edzell.

The library’s collection is a fascinating glimpse into a unique survival of a late Victorian library, reflecting what was considered of interest and importance in both fiction and non-fiction. The loan records for the first half of the twentieth century also survived, showing what the public liked to borrow. A digitised catalogue, Cotgreave Indicator, is available for researchers and includes a scanned image of the cover and a sample page.

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The museum is run by the local history society and provides a glimpse into Monifieth’s past with a permanent exhibition of memorabilia on display.

Visit this listed building built on the original site of the first church in the town, with lots of historical features and a recently renovated sanctuary. Historic church records and photographs will be on display.