In conversation with the New Glasgow Society. Learn about the history and future of one of Glasgow�s oldest civic groups through the stories and experiences of one of its oldest members.

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]]> Karen Beauchamp specalises in working with archives and recreating designs for specialist projects. Her illustrated talk will include samples of her work as well as unveiling the, just released, work from the archives of the Parisian firm of Isidore Leroy.

For more information please go to: http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/karen-beauchamp-historic-wallpaper-designer/

]]> Glasgow University has a wealth of imposing and impressive buildings. Historian Dr Ronnie Scott focuses on the important contribution that Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander Greek Thomson, the city's two world-class architects, have made to the university's campus and its setting.

For more information please go to: http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/mackintosh-and-thomson-on-campus/

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Mackintosh designed a number of Tea Rooms for his enlightened patron Miss Catherine Cranston. In Sauchiehall Street, his design genius was unparalleled. Mackintosh expert Anne Ellis' talk will inspire and delight.

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]]> Based on his recent book, 'Glasgow: mapping the city', author John Moore will introduce a selection of the most important or unique maps of the city and discusses the men and the stories behind how Glasgow was put on the map.

Thu 15 Sep 2016, 6.30pm (1 hour)

http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/mapping-glasgow/

]]> New Glasgow Society's Lex Lamb will present the fascinating story of the secret Soviet map of Glasgow, including the first ever translation of the map's detailed text description of Glasgow's infrastructure, industry and government in the 1970s.

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The Willow Tea Rooms,�3rd Floor, 119 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3EL

Join us as we explore one of our city�s greatest assets, TEA. Glasgow has a great a nity with tea, both as tea drinkers & innovators - hear about Thomas Lipton, Stuart Cranston, Kate Cranston & the role of the Clyde!

Our talk will give an insight into how Glasgow took the lead in so many ways in the history of the tea industry. The birthplace in 1848 of one of the most successful tea exporters and importers, Sir Thomas Lipton, the company today still sells over ten million cups a day in America! Hear about how we built some of the finest Clippers that conveyed tea across the seas and how some of these won many prizes in the �Great Tea Race�. The talk will tell the story of how Glasgow invented the tearoom and brought the gentlemen out of ale houses into a whole new world for conducting their business matters. The sites where the trades were located are significant to the history of Glasgow - Stuart Cranston opened up his first tea shop in St Enoch's Square, which was built on the ancient burial site of Glasgow's patron saint's mother's grave, one of the most sacred sites in the city dating back to the 6th century. Glasgow was once known as the tea Tokyo of the west and over 200 years later tea is still being enjoyed on one of Glasgow's finest streets in one of its most established tea houses, The Willow Tea Rooms on Buchanan Street.



]]> Michael Durning, artist & archivist of Paisley Art Institute, reappraises the contribution to the nation's art from Paisley. Artistic greats that came to be the Glasgow Boys, Glasgow Girls, and the Glasgow School.

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Dr Ambrose Gillick discusses moments of grassroots activism which have played a significant role in forming the spaces, streets and buildings of contemporary Glasgow. Looking at activists, organisations and tactics, this talk explores the different ways ordinary people have helped make Glasgow.


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]]> Pollokshaws Heritage Society will look at how Pollokshaws Village and its community have been 'deranged' twice. The Comprehensive Development Plan of the 1960's demolished 89% of buildings, displacing their occupants and high rise flats were constructed, which were to become un-lettable. Find out about what the area has lost.

For more information please go to: http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/pollokshaws-past-and-present/

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Pollokshaws Burgh Hall

2025 Pollokshaws Road - off Christian Street, G43 1NE

An update by Tom Graham and Eddie Warde about Pollokshaws Transitional Regeneration (TRA) and the new Village Hub.

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Join archaeologists Gavin MacGregor and Ingrid Shearer on a 10,000 year interactive journey through Glasgow before history. Explore the drowned lands of the Clyde estuary, ancient burial mounds in Govan, logboats in Bridgeton, and prehistoric loch-dwellings in Easterhouse.

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]]> Prof Lyndsay Fletcher in Astronomy at Glasgow University
will give an illustrated talk on the �Beauty of the Universe�
with the latest imagery & film footage from NASA.

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In May 2014 the �Mack� was engulfed in a fire that threatened to remove this remarkable edifice from the City�s landscape. This talk will explore the challenges of the restoration and the quirks of good fortune and even better design that will allow it to once again serve the creative energy of Glasgow when it re-opens in 2019.

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]]> Eddie Warde of Glasgow Housing Association will report on the progress of the Pollokshaws TRA works and comment on the challenges faced in attempting to re-build 'Pollokshaws Village'.

For more information please go to: http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/the-future-pollokshaws/

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Illustrated talk by McGinlay Bell Architects. Hear the
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Dr Robyne Calvert, Mackintosh Research Fellow at Glasgow School of Art, will look at work labelled Glasgow Style and think about its meaning and connections to the European Symbolist movement with a particular focus on the work of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

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]]> Learn about the top 100 buildings in Scotland, all voted for by the public. Glasgow highlights include The Italian Centre, Zoology Building at the University of Glasgow, Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre and Glasgow Film Theatre.

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The Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace set the standard for all to follow and Glasgow rose to the challenge with three expos in Kelvingrove Park that between them attracted over 26 million people.

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]]> Join Joe Murray, National Trust for Scotland's Learning Officer at Pollok Park, for a fascinating exploration of the largely forgotten legacy left by the Maxwell Baronets of Pollock.

For more information please go to: http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/sir-john-maxwell-family/

]]> Hear about the challenges of researching and recreating historic stencilling linked with the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Glasgow-based artist Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw of The Lansdowne House of Stencils.

]]> Recently retired Professor of Medieval History & Codicology at Glasgow University, Robert Gibb, presenting an illustrated talk on Talwin Morris, Art Director of Blackie & Sons & major proponent of the Glasgow Style.

]]> Tea Green Events take over the stunning St Andrew's in the Square for the unique market experience. Showcasing the very best of Scotland's creative talent.

]]> Composer Gareth Williams and Playwright Oliver Emmanuel talk about their First World War trilogy, The 306, written to commemorate the 306 men shot for cowardice and desertion in World War One.

The 306: Dusk is the final part in the National Theatre of Scotland's World War One Trilogy, co-produced with Perth Theatre and part of the 1418 NOW programme of new work marking UK's WWI centenary commemorations. Co-created by award-winning duo, composer Gareth Williams and Oliver Emmanuel playwright, The 306: Dusk premieres later this year at Perth Theatre. The 306: Dusk brings the trilogy into the modern day, exploring the depth of feeling around the First World War a century on from its conclusion, and how the spectre of trauma continues to haunt soldiers in the modern day. Find out more about the three productions from Gareth and Oliver, and about their recent research trip to the Somme to visit the WW1 battlefields and graveyards.

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Talk on the history of Glasgow�s Park Circus and
(re-)discover our premises.

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This talk examines the built heritage and material culture of the colonial elite of Glasgow between 1740-1838. How did the �Tobacco Lords� and �Sugar Aristocracy� live?

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Over a lunchtime of talks Glasgow Women�s Library, the sole accredited museum dedicated to women�s history in the UK will be sharing some of their insights on the spaces, places, buildings and hotspots that bring women�s often hidden histories to life.

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]]> Niall Murphy, Deputy Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, tells the story of the Glasgow Cenotaph and Sir JJ Burnet's understated design came about.

Please note the talk lasts approximately 50 mins. The talk will take a closer look at Sir JJ Burnet's subtle design for the Glasgow Cenotaph with its superb sculpture by Ernest Gillick. The talk will demonstrate how the Glasgow Cenotaph fits into Sir JJ Burnet's oeuvre and seek to illustrate how it fits into the hierarchy and sequence of war memorials Burnet produced for the Imperial War Graves commission amongst others. The talk will also touch on other proposals to commemorate the "Great War", explain the debate over its location within the square, discuss conservation issues such as the condition of the memorial and attempt to ascertain people's views as to whether or not the listing status of the Glasgow Cenotaph should be raised from a 'B' to an "A".

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National Theatre of Scotland, 125 Craighall Road, G4 9TL

National Theatre of Scotland named their new building Rockvilla, recognising the social heritage of this area, on the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal. A fascinating talk about this North Glasgow canal corridor.

A local historian will share fascinating insights past and present into the Forth and Clyde canal and canal-side area of Rockvilla. This heritage talk will be presented with visuals, in of one of the National Theatre of Scotland�s new rehearsal rooms in the Company�s new facility.

The first documented use of the name Rockvilla was in an 1860 Ordnance Survey map, and it is likely that the name derives from the extensive quarrying industry that once existed in this area of Glasgow surrounding the canals. Several local buildings and establishments have borne the name Rockvilla, notably Rockvilla School (demolished in 1996) and Rockvilla Church, which still stands today on Saracen Street with its new name, Possilpark Parish Church and the wider area is referred to as Rockvilla Basin. When the canal first opened in 1790, there was sudden growth of industry with buildings being constructed on an unprecedented scale that had never been seen before. Port Dundas, Spiers Wharf and the area of Rockvilla were key to the growth of Glasgow�s becoming the second city of Great Britain. The National Theatre of Scotland now proudly takes its place, as part of a new creative industrial hub, alongside neighbours The Whisky Bond, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Scottish Opera and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. A forthcoming National Theatre of Scotland participatory arts project, Submarine Time Machine based around the canal will be dredging up stories and mythologies from the local area and these will also be shared and integrated into exhibits at Rockvilla.

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]]> The twenty five year period before 1914 saw the centre of Glasgow changed with the arrival of purpose-built office blocks. We explore these Jolly Red Giants from conception to maturity, through dark days to survive against the odds.

For more information please go to: http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/the-jolly-red-giants/

]]> A chance to hear from retired radio officers who travelled the world doing Morse code for a variety of ships

Learn about what life was like, how long it took to train and exciting accounts of voyages across the world! Witness them demonstrate Morse on a traditional Morse key and even have a go yourself.

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13th September 11.30am

13th September 2pm

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Who were the men named on our WW1 Memorial? Hear about their lives and backgrounds and some of Hyndland�s social history.

]]> As we approach the centenary of the end of World War 1 this is an opportunity to hear about the lives of those men named on our Memorial Plaque who died in the final year of the war.

So often we know nothing about the lives of those commemorated on War Memorials. In the Kingsborough Sanctuary the World War 1 Memorial takes the form of a magnificent stained glass window and a marble plaque bearing thirty names. The facts behind the names give a picture of life in Victorian and Edwardian Glasgow. The young men were the sons of the wealthy and aspirational nineteenth century middle class which came to reside in the large villas and terraces of the West End. They were prompt to enlist and being, for the most part, officers, lost their lives very quickly in the carnage of war. One hundred years later what are we able to do? Remember and honour them; care for all victims of war everywhere, most especially the young and in any small way that we can seek to create peace.

]]> Join author Gill Hoff's who will be talking about her new book 'The Lost Story of the William and Mary'. This features the disastrous 1850's shipwreck that occurred among the Bahama Islands and caused the loss of nearly 200 lives.

For more information please go to: http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/the-lost-story-of-the-william-and-mary/

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Based on Bruce Peter�s new book �The Modern Hotel in Britain�, this lecture focuses on Scottish and Glaswegian examples from the 1920s until the 1970s. The Beresford in Glasgow will be featured, as will numerous other pre- and post-war examples.


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]]> Members of the 1820 society narrate the events of the 1820 radical uprising and the role of John Baird and Andrew Hardy who were executed in the insurrection.

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]]> Illustrated talk by the Prof Sam McKinstry of the University of the West of Scotland. He is an expert in the work of Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, premier architect of Scotland and designer of Pollokshaws Burgh Halls.

For more information please go to: http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/the-work-of-sir-robert-rowand-anderson-2/

]]> Join Ann Laird for a lunchtime talk to learn about Glasgow's famous west end. Known for its elegant houses and some quirky streets, the city's first university, and many interesting residents since Victorian times. Hear about these and today's vibrant and innovative local community.

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]]> The process of engraving involves using copper wheels with a mix of carborundum and oil to grind into the glass. Every stage of the process is done by hand and is very labour intensive. Wilma MacKenzie is one of the few remaining qualified practitioners of copper wheel engraving, mainly working on commissions, (clients including Museums of Scotland, Outlander TV series). Learn more at this unique event.

For more information please go to: http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/wilma-mackenzie-glass-engraver/

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Pollokshaws Burgh Hall,�2025 Pollokshaws Road - off Christian Street, G43 1NE

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]]> Karen Mailley-Watt & Rachael Purse, aka the 'History Girls' will discuss the women who have shaped Garnethill. A lively talk on woman's lives; from artists, business owners to staff at The Glasgow School of Art.

]]> Zen Buddhism offers a fresh perspective on our busy and often stressful lives. This 30 minute talk provides an outline of Zen Buddhism and how it can help us deal more effectively and skilfully with these challenges.

The aim of Zen meditation and practice is to become more present and aware and, in doing so, enable us to enjoy a richer experience of life. This talk is given by Sensei Karl Kaliski, a fully qualified Zen teacher. It outlines key principles of Buddhism and Zen and provides information about how Zen Buddhist practice can be of value in our daily lives. There will also be an opportunity for a short question and answer session towards the end of the talk.

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]]> An evening of 5 minute presentations from current and recently graduated Architecture students from GSA & Strathclyde on their predictions of what a city of the future might look like. Coordinated by Missing in Architecture.

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centre studio in the Mercat Building.

Panoramic views, see architects� work and hear
informal talks by the team, clients & collaborators.

]]> The Glenlee was built at the Bay Yard in Port Glasgow and first took to the water in 1896. She circumnavigated the world four times before being brought home to Glasgow. Learn about her fascinating life on the high seas.

The Glenlee first took to the water as a bulk cargo carrier in 1896. She circumnavigated the globe four times and survived (though not without incident) passing through the fearsome storms of Cape Horn 15 times before being bought by the Spanish navy in 1922 and being turned into a sail training vessel.


The ship was modified and served in that role until 1969. She then operated as a training school until 1981 when she was laid up in Seville Harbour and largely forgotten. A British naval architect saw her in Seville in 1990 and two years later, the Clyde Maritime Trust succeeded in buying the re-named Galatea at auction for 5 million Pesetas (�40,000) and saved her from dereliction.


In November 1999, the Glenlee was recognised as part of the Core Collection of historic vessels in the UK. Chosen from a list of over 1,500 ships, the Glenlee is one of only 43 vessels recognised by the National Historic Ships Committee as being of pre-eminent national significance in terms of maritime heritage, historic associations or technological innovation.

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]]> Tarbat Discovery Centre sits on the site of one of the most exciting recent finds in Scotland, a Pictish monastic settlement dating from the 7th century.  Nothing like it has been found elsewhere and archaeology has revealed an array of workshops devoted to the manufacture of precious metal objects, glasswork and the process of producing vellum from calfskins and then into the finest illuminated manuscripts.

]]> One of Scotland's tallest land-based lighthouses, standing 41m high, with 203 steps to the top. Red and white striped tower with machicolated parapet walk around a domed lantern. The lighthouse was engineered by Robert Stevenson (grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson) in 1830 and is operated and maintained by the Northern Lighthouse Board.

]]> The 17th century thatched cottage where Robert Burns and his friends formed a literary and debating society in 1780.  Restored for the Burns Bicentennial, the house contains fascinating Burns memorabilia.

Owned by the National Trust for Scotland.

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Burns was Depute Master of the Lodge 1784-88.

]]> Situated in Tarves Conservation Area, visitors to the Tarves Heritage Centre can reminisce about old schooldays in the old classroom - complete with slate and slate pencils, dunces cap and teacher’s belt or tawse! Also on display is the Tarves bowl, made at Seaton Pottery, as well as fashion items and tradesmen’s tools. Displays will be available, and visitors will be able to try their hand at writing on slate and dressing up. There will also be a ‘Hetty the Heritage Mouse Quiz’ for younger visitors.

Café next door for refreshments.

]]> Display of equipment and extensive collection of literature used in family history research. The Society remains obne of the principal centres of family history, genealogy research in the Tay Valley area with a strong worldwide membership.

If you are interested in your family history, this is the place to visit. The Society have unique records from across the world andexpertise in genealogy of Angus, Fife and Kinross.

Have lots of fun researching and discovering your ancestors with help to had.

]]> This has been a religious site since 1607 but the present structure dates from 1794. It is a distinctive local landmark, particularly because of its leaning tower. The church contains a Miller pipe organ installed in 1899. Auld Kirk is developing as an Arts and Heritage Centre, whilst retaining historic features. The surrounding graveyard has interesting slabs which reflect Tayport’s history, maritime connections and the family grave of renowned local artist Cynicus.

]]> The old Tayport Burgh Chambers are opened especially for Doors Open events. Take the opportunity to visit the old JP Courtroom and view pictures, historical maps, information, regalia and documents. The garden will also be open for you to enjoy.

]]> Ring the doorbell and step in for a rare glimpse into Glasgow life in the early 20th century, in the four room house lived in by short hand typist Miss Agnes Toward for over half a century.

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]]> Wellpark Brewery's revamped visitor experience goes behind the doors of Tennent's lager, including personal stories from staff from over the centuries, a look back on iconic marketing campaigns from years gone by and topped off with a tasting experience of Scotland's favourite beer.

]]> Facing on to St Georges lane off Buccleuch Road the church was built in 1916, replacing an older building dating from 1843. The building is surprisingly large with a high, dark stained, pine roof with open beams. The most eye-catching feature of the building is the east window, installed to commemorate the reunion, in 1929, of the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland.

]]> Teviot Row House is one of several buildings managed by Edinburgh University Students? Association. It opened in 1889 ? making it the world?s oldest purpose-built Student Union building ? and was designed by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson in a 16th century Scots architectural style with late Gothic features. It has a variety of catering and bar areas, a debating chamber, a dining room, and many other meeting rooms; a number of which will be open to visitors.

]]> New centre which only opened in spring 2019, incorporated within Hawick High school to deliver much needed skills back into the textile sector

Showcase training being delivered within centre

]]> Located in an early Victorian stable block, our busy workshop still uses some of the building’s old features, like the stall floor drainage system and horse troughs.

Come and see us at work as we celebrate our 30th anniversary of working in conservation. We conserve a range of modern and historic textiles.

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You will also discover the fascinating history of this 500 year old tower from the days of the Border Reivers

Styled in the Borders 2019

This exhibition gathers together examples of the best quality fashion and design coming out of the Borders in 2019.

The Wonders of Wool: Ann Smith

The landscape, flora and fauna of Scotland provide inspiration for these vibrant felt art works and other wool felt creations

]]> Built in 1936 as a comfortable modern home in central Cupar, this private dwelling house has survived with only limited modernisation. Sympathetically restored in a 1940s' décor and fitted out with furniture, furnishings and appliances of the era, it is a living time-capsule of the sights, sounds and smells of a home of that period, giving visitors a fully immersive experience. Tours in small groups, conducted by the owners.

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]]> The Aldessan Gallery was formerly the Crown Inn, rebuilt from an earlier structure in 1818, and extremely popular with visitors to the Glen throughout the remainder of 19C. With changing attitudes and customs, however, in 1922 the Inn underwent quite dramatic changeand became the genteel Red Tub Tearooms, equally popular in their day, although surviving for less than two decades. In 1988 the building assumed its present identity, as a tearoom and craft shop.

]]> In September 2010 Sutherland Hussey Architects were approached by Edinburgh Council with an invitation to design a small meeting hut for a new allotment site in Stockbridge on the edge of a desinated World Heritage Site. Opened in 2013 the hut, a wedge-shaped, single volume timber building, now serves as a meeting place for plot holders and outside groups run by India Place Allotment Association. It also serves to promote organic growing and a sustainable lifestyle within the wider community through events and open days.

www.indiaplaceallotments.org.uk 

]]> The site now houses two arts organisations - All In Ideas and Citymoves Dance Agency.? The building has been repurposed as a progressive multi art form, event and studio space, with a focus on experimentation and production. The day will offer an insight into the unique site and the variety of arts being produced in the city.

]]> Enjoy this splendid collection showing how genealogy enriches your family history. Interesting artefacts and portraits illuminating ancestors back through the centuries; from Diana, Bonnie Prince Charlie and Robert the Bruce and beyond! www.andersonofnorthfield.net

]]> The Cherry Park farm offices at Inveraray Castle were designed by John Adam for the 3rd Duke of Argyll. When the 5th Duke succeeded in 1771, the offices remained incomplete and the Duke invited William Mylne to submit plans for its completion. Mylne created a court of offices with a hint of an Italian Palladian villa. Set around a cobbled square, the corner pavilions were connected along the north and south sides by heavy stone arches (since filled in), and in front by a range of rooms with a centrally pedimented carriage entrance. The pavilions have high Venetian windows on the external sides, each with a six-paned window above and sloping roofs rising to a central chimney. Plans to enlarge the offices were drawn up by Joseph Bonomi in 1807 but were largely unimplemented. The poultry house on the north side of the square, was converted to house the Argyll Papers, the archives of the Campbell family, dukes of Argyll, in 2007. The flower room in the North West tower was converted for a research room in 2017.

]]> The Argyll Papers are the family and estate archive of the Campbell family, dukes of Argyll. One of the most important private archives in Britain, it is a rich resource for Scottish and British history from the 13th to the 21st centuries, and attracts researchers from all over the world. A small selection of the archives' treasures will be on display.

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The archive is housed in Cherry Park, an elegant 18th century Palladian style farm steading, designed for the 5th Duke of Argyll by John Adam and Robert Mylne, with some early 19th century alterations by Joseph Bonomi.

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A free workshop on reading old Scottish handwriting is offered at 3.00pm on Saturday 23 September.

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]]> In 1900 the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh prepared drawings for a 'dream house'. These drawings were for a house that Mackintosh would probably have liked to build for himself and his wife.

In 1992 the house was completed to this design (copyright owned by the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow). The house has strong sculptural presence in the Highlands. It is situated in spectacular countryside just south of Inverness.

]]> Housed within the garden level of this grand hotel is a small museum telling the stories of the people who built, worked at, and visited the Atholl Palace from the time building began in 1874, to the present day.

Rooms have been set up, in accordance with to the original hotel plans, to show the working life of a Victorian hotel.

]]> This distinctively designed community building by A R M Architects. Its curved roof is a talking point within the community. Opened in 2004 it a focal point for the Auchenback and Barrhead residents It has a one-door approach with learning and social opportunities. It features 10 top spec pcs in multi purpose rooms. The ARC is also the base for Auchenback Active, a highly active community group. Unassisted wheelchair access, STB category 1

]]> This museum, owned by the Turriff and District Heritage Society, will be open and houses the Robes, Regalia and memorabilia of Turriff Town Council.

]]> Tucked in the heart of sandstone tenements, this urban garden, yards from busy Argyle Street houses a polytunnel, a greenhouse made from recycled bottles, 5 raised beds growing various crops and a mini orchard; all produce shared by members

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]]> The focus of many events in the park, this cast-iron, B-listed bandstand was made in the Elmbank Foundry in Glasgow in 1907. It was gifted to Crieff by James MacRosty’s brother, Alexander.

]]> The gardens comprise the steep wooded east bank of the Water of Leith roughly between Stockbridge and the Dean Bridge. It is part of the 'Pleasure Grounds' laid out by Lord Moray in the early 19th century and is currently and jointly owned by the owned of the houses in the Moray Feu.

]]> A Jacobean-style sandstone manor house by 19C architect William Burn. Given new life - and new buildings, as an agricultural college. Modern courtyard block 1984-91.

]]> The Barony Theatre building was erected in the 1880s as Borrowstoun Primary School. It is a typical stone building of the School Board era in plain Scottish Baronial style.

Since the early 1960s, the Barony Players have made a number of internal modifications, including the installation of raked seating, to bring the building back to life as a venue fit to host theatrical productions.

]]> The walk commemorated the 50th anniversary of the infamous Beeching Report of 1963. It traced the route of the railway through Kirkintilloch that was condemned by the Beeching Report.

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It is close to the Round Square and is of the beehive type dating from c1600. The Beehive Doocot contains around 700 nesting boxes for pigeons destined for the table.

There is a second doocot on the estate converted from a windmill in 1731.

]]> In 1803 the British Fisheries Society bought 390 acres on the south side of the the mouth of Wick River. Here Thomas Telford created a new model town, the harbour, and the world's first industrial estate. It is named after Telford's great patron, Sir William Johnstone Pulteney, then Governor of the British Fisheries Society. The Black Steps connected the lower and upper parts of the town and were painted by L S Lowry in 1937.

]]> The Boatshed, built upon the ruins of a former boatshed/store, was fully renovated and opened in 2015. Work was undertaken by Brown + Brown Architects, who have won awards for their design and work on the building. This project was partly funded by Aberdeenshire Council, CARS (a collaboration between Aberdeenshire Council and Historic Scotland), and the Aberdeenshire European Fisheries Fund. It is now home to a qualified boatbuilder and group of enthusiastic boatbuilding volunteers who use the purposely designed workshop space for community boatbuilding projects and school boatbuilding sessions, ensuring the skills of traditional boatbuilding remain active – come along and see them at work!

]]> The oldest bookshop in Scotland’s Book Town is a Georgian gem of a building housing a labyrinth of old books, with shelves that stretch for over a mile. The range of stock includes all subjects.
]]> Late 18th Century house with earlier adjoining böd, a scene of trade between Shetlanders and the Hanseatic fleet as long ago as 1684. More recently the building achieved fame as Shetland’s oldest pub. Now home to the Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary for sick, injured and abandoned seals and otters.

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]]> The CatStrand is an award-winning arts and community centre in the heart of the Glenkens, presenting a high quality programme of arts events and activities, workshops and learning as well as information for locals and tourists.
2018 The CatStrand is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Glenkens Community Arts Trust. There’s also a trip down memory lane with ten years of GCAT in our photographic exhibition. So open the door and enjoy a real celebration of events on offer at The CatStrand.
]]> The Caves offers an exciting opportunity to see these vast underground caverns. Rediscovered and excavated in the mid 90�s, the rooms form a series of arches underneath the buildings on South Bridge and make for a unique venue steeped in history and atmosphere. The building is owned by an ex international rugby player!

]]> Celebrating its 50th year, this year. Built to a simple but elegant style to meet the requirements of worship and a variety of social activities for all age groups. With great emphasis on family participation the building includes a chapel, multi-purpose hall with a stage, a Family History Centre and various multi-purpose rooms.

A building of simple, quiet elegance meeting the many needs for which the building was designed.

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]]> A former 1897 Linen Bank built by W.F. Salmon. Now an arts space, come and share your ideas about the forthcoming proposed High Street Fayre in 2017
For more information go to

http://glasgowdoorsopenday.com/event/doors-open-day-hub-the-civic-room/

]]> Built by local builder, Robert Weir and Son, commissioned by 33 founding members in the town and opened on 23rd March 1887 as a businessmen?s social club and reading room.? Built in red sandstone with many subtle architectural details, especially the 2-storey 5-light semi-octagonal corner tower.? Today operates on a private membership basis by invitation to local business people.

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An inspirational but simple studio, designed to make full use of natural daylight and to create a bright working weaving environment. At 64 square metres, built of wood, glass and modern materials, the external appearance and colour scheme make a bold statement. Situated in the garden, the space invokes a sense of stillness and connection with nature.

The Colourbothy has been?officially?recognised?as a 'piece of architecture' bringing the two disciplines of art and architecture together.? In 2013 it was recognised at the Annual Design Awards Ceremony by?RIAS Chapter,?Aberdeen Society of Architects, with the award for the 'Best Commercial/Industrial Building'. It was also given a special award by 'The Wood for Good' organisation for the Best use of Timber in a Building.? In 2014 at the Aberdeenshire Council Design Awards the building was highly commended in the business category. Hand-woven textiles will be on display and there will be a demonstration of the craft.

Please note that a visit to The Colourbothy is on the guided tour only, which must be booked in advance. ?To book please call 01330 844257 or email opendoor@belindarose.co.uk.

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