16 April 2010

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Edinburgh Castle, part of the Edinburgh Old and New Towns World Heritage Site, is hosting a special event this weekend to coincide with World Heritage Day.

12 April 2010

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Bookings are now being taken for weekend guided tours of one of Ayrshire’s historic treasures – Rowallan Old Castle. There are still places available for this Saturday, 17th April, and monthly tours right through the summer.

7 April 2010

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Holyrood Park, Edinburgh’s biggest and most popular green space, is gearing up for a unique multi-cultural celebration of the environment and enjoying the outdoors - Ecofusion - on Sunday 11 April. The family-friendly, free event – the first of its kind – aims to encourage people of all ages and from all backgrounds to make the most of the natural environment around them and the opportunities this presents for exploring and enjoying Scotland’s outdoor spaces and cultural heritage.

31 March 2010

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The best remaining example of work by Scottish architect turned furniture maker JW Small is to get a new lease of life thanks to a £250,000 grant from Historic Scotland. Dunlop Parish Church contains the only major example of Small’s work known to survive intact with it’s collection of pulpits, galleries, pews, font and other woodwork in its interior.

31 March 2010

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nnerleithen’s Parish Church is to get a new lease of life thanks to a £125,000 grant from Historic Scotland. Originally designed by Thomas Pilkington in 1865, the existing church replaced an earlier parish church. It was comprehensively re-constructed in 1887 by James Macintyre Henry who reused many of the Pilkington details.