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.

30 March 2010

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If you are planning to visit Linlithgow Palace or Peel over the next few weeks, don’t forget your mobile phone! From early April, responding to a simple text response survey posted on noticeboards around the Peel could win you one year’s membership with Historic Scotland.

30 March 2010

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Rainbows, Brownies and Guides in Perth and Kinross are being given the chance to step back in time at Stanley Mills and get a taste of what life was like there during the last hundred years, to tie with the founding of the Girl Guide movement in 1910.