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The Fish Pass on the Allader, adjacent to Woodburn Way, was completed in 1999 to allow salmon to migrate up river, as they had done in former times.…
Visit three mystery locations in the town centre to travel back to a time when Kirkintilloch stood as the north-western frontier of the vast Roman…
The Theatre was the brainchild of Mr James Bissell who, in 1960 was a member of an amateur dramatic club, but was filled with the desire to begin an…
The Forth and Clyde Canal Society was formed by a group of canal enthusiasts who felt that the decline in the canals of Scotland in the 1960s had to…
The Forth and Clyde Canal Society was formed by a group of canal enthusiasts who felt that the decline in the canals of Scotland in the 1960s had to…
Semi-detached home in the Bearsden area of Glasgow with Solar Water Heating. This semi-detached home has undergone a Solar Water Heating installation…
HarperCollins Publishers have been on their site in Bishopbriggs since 1967. The history of this great publisher began in 1819 in Glasgow, when the…
Hillhead Canal swing bridge was in 1938 to replace a bascule bridge nearby. The contractors were Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow. The Bridge…
Two converted poracabins which form a creative studio space for arts and creative workshops
Holy Family & St Ninian's, opened in 1893, was the first fully-furnished post-Reformation Roman Catholic church to be built in Kirkintilloch. It…
The Story So Far...Kilmardinny House is?East Dunbartonshire's Art Centre.The original A-listed building has undergone internal refurbishment within…
A complex structure where the Forth & Clyde Canal passes over both the River Luggie and a former railway.
This impressive church has been completed very recently, to replace a more traditional building on the same site. The building, designed by Davis…
Site of a former canal boatbuilding yard, now a focus for canalside leisure activities.
Hillhead Sculpture Studio has been working in Hillhead, Kirkintilloch since 2010, engaging local people and children in traditional craft and heritage…
Originally opened to the public in 1906, Kirkintilloch Town Hall has had a new lease of life reopening after refurbishment in 2018.This year the Town…
Lennoxtown Community Hub is the home for Council, library and cultural services in the town. Located in the heart of Lennoxtown on the town's Main…
Lenzie Library is a smaller branch of the EDLC Trust's library facilities in East Dunbartonshire. Please visit www.edlc.co.uk where you will find…
Although opened in 1874 the church did not celebrate its centenary until 1876.? This was because the church was originally designated a Chapel of Ease…
Walking tours around Lenzie. En route you will visit significant commuter villas representing the different stages of Lenzie's early development, the…
The Lillie Art Gallery was funded by a bequest from Robert Lillie, a local banker and artist. It was opened in 1962 on the site of the former Town…
The K6 telephone kiosk went into production in 1936 and was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V.
The lodge building was constructed during the 1920s, partly from materials from a row of demolished miners' houses that had stood on the canal bank…
Lodge Cadder Freestone's building was built to house the Masonic Lodge as well as a Social Club for Freemasons, their relatives and friends. This…
McGregor House is a new business facility provided by East Dunbartonshire Enterprise Trust. It includes business suites and a state-of-the-art…
Meadowburn Primary School was opened to pupils in April 1969. A few years later, in 1988, Strathclyde Regional Council decided to set aside annual…
Seven churches within Milngavie
Milngavie Fire Station was opened in September 1974 to provide cover for the Milngavie and Bearsden areas. It formerly fell within the jurisdiction of…
Milngavie Heritage Centre will be having an exhibition tracing the history of Milngavie Week - an annual gala event that began in the 1960s. There…
The guided walk will examine how the station developed from a much smaller building, which survives in its core, to accommodate the extensive commuter…
The library which is situated on Allander Road forms part of the community education centre. This is the main branch in Milngavie and is part of East…
Guided walk of 6-7 miles, taking 4-5 hours. Commences at the West Highland Way Marquee, Milngavie Precinct. Will follow the Allander as far as Mugdock…
A fascinating day of free displays, talks and workshops on local and family history. Throughout the day you can see a wide range of stalls and…
The United Free congregation had its origins with a group of church members who disagreed with the unification of the former UF churches with the…
This walk, organised by the Milngavie Heritage group, provided the opportunity to discover how the Victorians resolved the epidemic problems of their…
The Milngavie Youth Caf? was opened in September 2001 in the former Red Cross building in Mugdock Road, Milngavie. Since then it has been the focus of…
Mugdock's mediaeval castle is first mentioned in 1372 and was a Graham stronghold; the most notable person who lived there was James Graham 'the…
Building began in 1807 (James Gillespie Graham) on the site of an earlier church of 1649, and within the original settlement established by Paisley…
The castle was first mentioned in a document of 1372. It was occupied by the Graham family for many years, protected on the east and south sides by…
Peel Park, Kirkintilloch, is the location of both a Roman fort and a mediaeval castle. The mound of the mediaeval castle of Kirkintilloch can be seen…
This is one of the most significant buildings in Milngavie. Originally opened in 1863 as the terminus of a branch railway also serving the commuter…
The recently-opened Salt Dome at Broomhill Depot is of spectacular appearance both inside and out. Its purpose is to maintain dry supplies of salt for…
The Seagull Trust is a charity that exists to provide canal trips for disabled people. The Kirkintilloch boathouse was built to accommodate the…
The Springfield Church was built in 1865 comprising the original building, and later a modern sanctuary extension was added in 1972/3 with additional…
The building is a purpose built Roman Catholic Church constructed in the mid-1980s and completed in 1987. The Church contains a number of highly…
The church was built in 1892 when Mrs Douglas of Mains acted as "prime mover". It was then a mission church under St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, and…
St. Cyprian's Church was the first church opened in Lenzie in 1873 and is part of the Scottish Episcopal Church. The architect Alexander Ross built…
St David's Memorial Park is a Gothic Church dating from 1926. It was built to a design by the architect P McGregor Chalmers to replace the adjacent…
St James the Less is a good example of a modern church (opened in 1980). Interesting relics brought from earlier churches include stained glass panels…
The building now occupied by the Catholic parishoners of St Joseph's was originally built as Milngavie and Baldernock United Free Church in 1896.…
St Machan's (originally St Paul's) was built in 1846 as a permanent place of worship for the Catholic Mission in Campsie, established in 1831. It was…
St Mary's was completed in 1914 to replace the Auld Kirk at the Kirkintilloch Cross. Its impressive Gothic tower contrasts with the tapering spire of…
The first St Ninian's School had 75 pupils and was opened in January 1874 on Union Street, Kirkintilloch. The school was extended and modernised to…
The church has deep and wide twin gabled transepts with a semi-octagonal apse. Beautiful stained glass windows from 1905, with the most recent having…
This opportunity is part of East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust's Trails and Tales programme which is supported by the Heritage Lottery…
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 walk commemorated the 50th anniversary of the infamous Beeching Report of 1963. It traced the route of the railway through Kirkintilloch that was…
Formerly Atholl Preparatory School, the building opened in 1925, however the existing building has been on its present site since 1931. It opened with…
18C cottage and barn dating from 1803, forming an L-plan around a garden court. One of the most attractive properties in the area.?
A turn of the century large brick building which was built as a communal public baths with a high wooden ceiling, in particular for the workers of the…
The Park Church was built with money from Kirkintilloch residents to serve the local community of the 1860's. Once it was decommissioned in the…
JOHN KAY PRINTS: The Times of Thomas MuirA unique exhibition exploring the times of Thomas Muir of Huntershill, through prints by celebrated 18th…
Twechar Community Action is an organisation who formed as a response to the closure of the Local Authority owned and managed recreation centre. The…
A walking tour started from Kirkintilloch Town Hall and tracing the former course of Kirkintilloch's Passenger Railway which closed in 1964.
Twechar School was oppened in 1888-89 by Kirkintilloch (Landward) School Board. Over the years it has been enlarged and expanded. Between 1937 and…
Since 2001 this modern centre has been administered by a registered charity, Twechar Community Action. It hosts a variety of social, recreational and…
The shop is one of the last surviving weaver's workshops in Kirkintilloch. Until about 1900 looms for six weavers were accommodated here, with…
This church was built as a church hall for an existing Church community who had been meeting in the village hall. A new hall and other rooms with…
The present Westerton Library (adjacent to the site of the former garden suburb hall - now a small car park) was built in 1981. Normally closed on…
This church can trace its origins back to the 1920s, when open air services and kitchen meetings were held in the Bishopbriggs area. A church building…
This display, prepared by Kirkintilloch Antiquaries, showed how telephone boxes made in Kirkintilloch fitted into the overall programme of telephone…
Gavin's Mill is an ancient Corn Mill on the banks of the Allander Water in Milngavie. It has a date stone, inset near the lower doors, saying 1664.…
The doocot (dovecot, pigeon house) is a Grade 2 listed building and a prominent feature of the designed landscape of the Dougalston Estate. It has an…
Gravestones in the Old Aisle cemetery include Beatrice Clugston (local philanthropist), Alexander Bain (inventor of the electric clock and other…
“Milngavie is the child of the Allander” Local historian Donald Shankland will lead a heritage walk along the River Allander in Milngavie. On route he…
Amisfield Walled Garden dates from 1783. Designed by John Henderson for the 7th Earl of Wemyss, the garden once formed part of the policies of…
Archerfield is a magnificent estate situated between Gullane and North Berwick with the Grade A listed Archerfield House lying at its heart. The…
Officially opened on 23 June 1971 by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Funding for the building was a bequest by Mr John D Brunton, son of the founder…
Local history expert Alan Stephens will lead a walk around the recently-created Queen Mary's Mount trail on Carberry Hill. This will include the…
The A-listed Church building is virtually as it was on opening day 1 April 1905 with many of the original arts and crafts features still in use. The…
A 1200 mega watt coal-fired working power station opened in 1968.
Dirleton Primary School is celebrating its 100th birthday in its present building with a Centenary Open Day from 10am to 4 pm. Education has a long…
A two-hour tour of Dunbar's historic town centre looking at the work of the Dunbar Townscape Heritage Initiative led by Paul Zochowsky, a principal…
Destroyed by fire 1987, reconstructed 1991. Unique blend of 19-20C architecture. Also contains one of the most important pieces of monumental…
Dunbar and District History Society conducted Local History Walks Around Dunbar for Beginners.
East Linton Community Hall was built as a Volunteers' Drill Hall in 1875 and extensively refurbished in 2000 using a Millennium Commission grant. It…
Originally a 14C 4-storey keep enlarged into an 'L' plan mansion in 16C. Formerly ruinous, destroyed during the Battle of Pinkie in 1547, it was…
Nestled in the rolling farmlands of East Lothian lies Glenkinchie Distillery, founded in 1837 by John and George Rate. The name Kinchie, it is…
An open invitation to all pianists of all ages, amateur or professional, to play Haddington Concert Society’s magnificent Bösendorfer concert-grand…
This is a small museum at West Links Road, Gullane (next to the Pros' shop) displaying golfing artefacts from the early days of the game.
The John Gray Centre opened in 2012 converting several buildings that had been Council offices, tavern, agricultural seed store and Procurator Fiscal…
John Muir's life and work has inspired people all over the world. Discover how the boy born in this house became one of the driving forces behind the…
Home of the Duke of Hamilton, dating from the 14th century, with links to the Maitlands and Blantyres. Extensively restored by the famous Scottish…
Loretto Chapel was built in the 16C by Thomas Duthy or Doughty, 'a monk of the order of St Paul'. All that remain of the original building is a mound.…
McArthur's Store, or Spott's Girnell (granary) as it was first known, was first recorded in 1658 located on a spur of rock within the eastern harbour…
The original Maitlandfield House was named Bearford House and was built in 1654. It was one of the many properties of Francis Charteris, Earl of…
Local experts in the history of Musselburgh and its buildings will be conducting historical tours starting inside the ancient Tolbooth at the east end…
Friends of Musselburgh Links are holding an open day at the new Stables Pavilion at Musselburgh Racecourse, Linkfield Road, from 12 to 4 pm.