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Museum
Represents a museum
WC
Yes
EventsForChildren
Yes
Place
The town or city
Dumfries
HearingLoop
No
IsIncludedThisYear
Yes
DisabledAccess
Yes
Activities
<p>Various exhibitions including artwork reflecting Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfries’ carved stone heritage, the restoration of Rosefield Mills, and a craft activity for children, based on buildings in the town.</p>
OpeningTime1
10am till 5pm
OpeningDate1
7/9/2019
OpeningDate2
8/9/2019
OpeningTime2
10am till 5pm
IsNewThisYear
Yes
ID
Google Panorama ID
17841
Refreshments
Yes
Street
The street address
Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust Hub
AddressLine2
22 Queen Street
Postcode
DG1 2JF
Parking
No
DisabledWC
No
LimitedAccess
No
NotAccessible
No
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
dumfriesandgalloway
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1038
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Museum
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
current,55.86362,-4.261207;
Description
An account of the resource
<p>18thC and earlier buildings on this site were extended and converted to a warehouse around 1860, and the building has variously been used as a pianoforte warehouse and sheet music shop, and for the curing of hams. The Victorian signage relating to this enterprise was discovered under layers of paint on the first floor lintels in 2013, and has been conserved and retained, reading 'ham-curing cheese & provision warehouse'. By the 1880s the building was in use as a bakehouse by Thomson Brothers, bakers, of Glasgow. In 1963, William C Gill & Sons, wholesale stationers and paper merchants, moved here from premises in Old Union Street. They traded from their shop on Queen Street until 2008, by which time the building had become very dilapidated, with large holes in the roof. </p><p> </p><p>The building has been converted and revived with upper floors as private apartments and the ground floor housing the Yellow Door Gallery, and the base for the Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust, a charity who aim to preserve buildings of architectural and historical interest in the town. </p><p> </p>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1860