22 July 2009

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The Edinburgh Festivals’ Cavalcade will take place in Holyrood Park this year for the first time ever thanks to Historic Scotland. The need to move the location of the spectacular event is largely due to the need to avoid the tram works on Princes Street. It will start at 2pm at the Holyrood Park Road entrance (by the Commonwealth Pool) and travel north and east along The Queen’s Drive past Dynamic Earth, the Scottish Parliament and Palace of Holyrood House and finish at the Meadowbank Terrace entrance (by Meadowbank Stadium) at about 3pm.

22 July 2009

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A Victorian accounts book offering fascinating insights on the history of the Stanley Mills cotton weaving complex has been gifted to Historic Scotland. The neatly hand-written ledger details the income and expenditure of the business and estate that Colonel Frank Stewart Sandeman purchased it in 1876. It shows that in 1876-80 the weekly wage bill for the substantial workforce at the water-powered mills on the banks of the Tay outside Perth was between £107 and £172.

20 July 2009

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Aspiring archaeologists from across the globe have visited Mull to learn about underwater heritage. Historic Scotland has sponsored the underwater archaeology fieldschool in the Sound of Mull to encourage public interest in the recording of Scotland’s underwater heritage.

17 July 2009

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Become a Courtier at the Castle and enjoy entertainment fit for a Queen The Renaissance pomp and pageantry of the Royal Court of Mary Queen of Scots returns to Stirling Castle next month when the queen and her entourage come home to Scotland for ‘A Royal Summer Holiday’.

16 July 2009

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Four special tours will give visitors the chance to walk Holyrood Park in the footsteps of the famous. The Historic Scotland Ranger Service has organised the Hutton and A’ That tours on Friday 24th and Monday 27th of July especially for the 2009 Year of Homecoming.