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D OP DOORS Www 14Th &15Th September ANNU Get Intobuildingsthisseptemberwith SCO A This programme was sponsored and distributed by For more information on the national Doors Open Days please contact: The Scottish Civic Trust, The Tobacco Merchant’s House 42 Miller Street, Glasgow G1 1DT Tel: 0141 221 1466 Email: [email protected] The Scottish Civic Trust is a charity registered in Scotland No. SC012569 Doors Open Days is supported by Historic Environment Scotland. @dod_dundee Doors Open Days Dundee www.doorsopendays.org.uk DOORS OPEN #dodscot DAYS 2019 14th & 15th September Get into buildings this September with SCOTLAND’S LARGEST FREE ANNUAL ARCHITECTURAL EVENT www.doorsopendays.org.uk @dod_dundee Doors Open Days Dundee Doors Open Days is a national event run by Scottish Civic Trust. Information about the national programme, including event listings, can be found at www.doorsopendays.org.uk. Doors Open Days, along with Scottish Archaeology Month, take place throughout Scotland in September and are part of European Heritage Days. Doors Open Days 2019 gives you Symbol Key free access to buildings you wouldn’t Toilet Wheelchair normally get into as well as special accessible toilet Wheelchair events at public buildings. The event accessible building celebrates architecture in all its forms - Not an accessible building from the very ancient to ultra-modern, Limited access well-loved to little-known. So put the Parking dates in your diary and we will see you Events for children Refreshments on the 14th & 15th September! Hearing loop 1 2 3 1. Abertay Historical 2. Avertical World - 3. Blackness Community Society Fieldwork Explore and Climb! Fire Station Division - Hidden 7 Blinshall Street, Blackness Road, Broughty Ferry Dundee, DD1 5DF Dundee, DD1 5PA Meet in front of Sat & Sun Tours: 11am, Saturday 11am - 3pm Broughty Castle, 12noon, 1pm. Non-bookable Castle Approach, Sat & Sun ‘Try It Sessions’ An opportunity to see behind Broughty Ferry, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm the scenes of one of Dundee’s Dundee, DD5 2TF Per tour 12, Per ‘Try it working community fire Saturday 11am -1pm Climbing Session’ - 8 station’s in action, Non- bookable Avertical World is Tayside’s fire-fighters will be on hand to A free guided walk lasting dedicated indoor climbing provide fire safety advice, offer approximately 2 hours led centre, based in the former free Home Fire Safety Visits by members of the Abertay St Mary Magdalene Church. and demonstrate firefighting, Historical Society Fieldwork Open for over 16 years, rescue equipment and skills. Division. Open to all who are Facilities for novices and interested in discovering more training for young and old about local history. We will climbers. Walking distance be exploring lesser known from the city centre. aspects of Broughty Ferry Open 7 days year round. including its beginnings as a fishing village, its role in the defence of the Tay, and the development of the railway and suburb. 6 4 5 7 4. Botanic Garden - Visitor are advised that due 7. City Road Allotments The Built Botanics to the historic nature of the City Road, Dundee, DD2 2BL Botanic Garden Visitor Centre building, there is no disabled (Entrance Gate is Opposite Riverside Drive, access to the Castle or the Pitfour Street) Dundee DD2 1QH artillery magazine. Saturday & Sunday 11am-3pm. Saturday 12.45 - 3pm Children must be Tours on the hour and half hour Two tours – 12.45pm and accompanied by an adult. Non-bookable 2pm. Booking Required – Our allotment site has been in Eventbrite: 20 for each tour. existence since the 1940s when We’ll look at the built the need arose to grow your environments within the 6. Caird Hall: own for the war effort. Backstage Tour Botanic Garden – the hot and Originally farmland, the cool glasshouses housing City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BB allotments have evolved over the rainforest and desert Saturday 2 x tours – 10:30- the years to the present day environments, the award- 11:30am and 12noon -1pm where we now have 71 plots winning visitor centre, (tour max - 25) of assorted sizes in use. The the fascinating gardens Booking Essential: angela. Association manages the site, of evolution and genetics doran@leisureandculture which is leased from Dundee and the energy-neutral dundee.com or 01382 434111 macromicro studio. City Council; our purpose is to Step on the Stage where so promote the growing of fruit and many stars have appeared. vegetables, to manage the site From Elton John, David to promote a community spirit 5. Broughty Castle Bowie, The Cure, Frank among members and to protect Museum Sinatra, The Beatles and the and enhance the environment. Castle Approach, Broughty Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Our site is constantly evolving, Ferry, Dundee, DD5 2TF Bjork, The Proclaimers, incorporating a calming, wildlife Sunday 1pm - 3pm Stereophonics to name but area, a welcoming display of Non-bookable a few. See behind the scenes flowers and a new project that of Dundee’s major Concert/ A rare chance to explore the we have just started working on. underground ammunition Conference Venue and get a Come on in and see these areas magazine at Broughty Castle. closer look at the magnificent as well as our wonderful plots! Shells and cartridges were Harrison and Harrison Organ, The Stage, Marryat Hall, once stored here to feed the 4.7 inch quick fire coastal Gallery and backstage. defence guns on the ramparts above. 10 8 9 11 8. District 10: Shipping 9. Dundee Art Society in North East Scotland. Container Office Building 17 Roseangle, Dundee, DD1 4LP Using traditional Scottish materials and energy efficient Seabraes Yard, Saturday & Sunday 11am - 4pm. construction techniques. Dundee, DD1 4QB Non-bookable On each corner is a rounded Sunday 10am - 4pm Dundee Art Societys private tower with a minaret and Non-bookable picture collection will be on plain glass at the top. On the show plus artists will be working District 10 is a highly South elevation is a Mihrab, a on their own work throughout sustainable office building semi-circular projection from the weekend. Dundee Art made of shipping containers the wall with a copper dome Society has been part of the art providing work space for on top start up creative industries. scene in the city since the late Commended in the Scottish 19th Century. Local businessmen See also the Mosque website: Design Awards the Game Tetris came together to found a www.dundeeislamicsociety.com wraps around the outside of museum and art gallery which for further information on the building promoting the is now the McManus Art Gallery the event. creative and unpredictable and Museum. organisations within. The focus of both professional and amateur artists now and in Hosted by ‘Jon Frullani 11. Dundee City Archives Architect’ in their office. its beginning was to promote Also includes a Free talk the organisation of art classes, 14 City Square, on “Tenement Repair and talks, demonstrations and Dundee, DD1 3BY Maintenance” by Ian Muir exhibitions for its members. Saturday - Tours will take of ‘Muir Walker and Pride’ The society has a private place at 10:00am, 10:30am, Architects (hosted by RIAS collection of paintings 11:30am and 12:00pm. and RICS) on Sunday 15th including works by David Booking is essential for the from 11:00-12:00 (no booking Fuggie, James McIntosh Patrick tours as spaces are limited. required), with questions and and James Reville. Events can be booked information stands afterwards. through Eventbrite, by Jon and Ian are President and emailing: archives@ Vice President respectively dundeecity.gov.uk or phoning of the ‘Dundee Institute of 10. Dundee Central Mosque 01382 434494 Each tour will Architects’ and look forward 6 Milne Street, Dundee, take around 45 minutes. to meeting you to answer any questions architectural! DD1 5BZ (Entrance from To celebrate the 50th Brown Street) anniversary of Dundee City Architect: AIM, 2014. Saturday & Sunday 11am - 4pm. Archives we will be offering Non-bookable special tours behind the scenes at the archives. Tours Drop in to see this marvellous will include a chance to get building with a unique design; up close with some original the first purpose built mosque 12 13 14 15 documents covering Dundee’s 13. Dundee screens. Discover more about history from the 14th century Congregational Church cinema technology and its to the present day. See 6-8 Constitution Road, development and see a part of DCA that’s rarely open to documents from some of our Dundee, DD1 1LY the public. key collections, including the Saturday 10.30am - 2pm Keiller Collection, Caledon Sunday 10.30am - 12.30pm Print Studio tour 12:00. Free, but please book in advance Shipbuilders Collection and Non-bookable the Dundee Harbour Trust Our Church will be open Tour our Print Studio and Collection. Find out more between 1030am and 1400pm find out how our team about Dundee’s history and on Saturday 14th.September supports artists to create and present work. the people who have lived when we will be decorating here. Some of our volunteers the Church for Harvest. There Our Galleries will also be will also be on hand to explain may be organ recitals during open, with two exhibitions this period. Tea and coffee will from artists Mike Kelley and about the work they have be served in the Welcome Hall. Santiago Sierra. been doing at the Archives. The Church will also be open There will also be a talk about from 10.30am until 12.30pm on “The Street Names of Dundee” Sunday 15th September when at 11am and “How to Research we will be celebrating Harvest 15. Dundee Parish your Dundee Family History” Thanksgiving. Church (St Mary’s) at 12:30pm. Booking is not Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DG essential for the talks. Talks will last around 45 minutes.
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