Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Kippen HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess Yes Activities Being so far inland, Kippen is not somewhere you would expect to find a boat builders! Boats used to be fully built and fitted out in Kippen before being transported to Greenock. Kippen boat builders, James and Niven Miller, moved to Kippen from St Monans in Fife in 1937 and started building clinker boats and then lifeboats. Clinker boats developed in Northern Europe and are built with the hull planks overlapping each other, it is a style of boat building that has been around since medieval times. A variety of tools and other interesting historic artefacts will be on display for visitors. Limited disabled access. OpeningTime1 2 - 5pm OpeningDate1 14/9/2019 OpeningDate2 15/9/2019 OpeningTime2 2 - 5pm IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 15719 Refreshments No Street The street address Shigarton Lane AddressLine2 off Fore Road Postcode FK8 3EA Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kippen Boatyard Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived stirling Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 3514 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 Being so far inland, Kippen is not somewhere you would expect to find a boat builders! Boats used to be fully built and fitted out in Kippen before being transported to Greenock. Kippen boat builders, James and Niven Miller, moved to Kippen from St Monans in Fife in 1937 and started building clinker boats and then lifeboats. Clinker boats developed in Northern Europe and are built with the hull planks overlapping each other, it is a style of boat building that has been around since medieval times. A variety of tools and other interesting historic artefacts will be on display for visitors. Limited disabled access.