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ORGANISED BY EDINBURGH Published by: The Cockburn Association (August 2014) DOORS OPEN Compilation and Editing: Marion Williams Design: www.ms-creative.co.uk Print: www.21colour.co.uk Cover Photography: Royal Circus Gardens (North), Edinburgh DAY 2014 David Queenan www.dqphotography.com 21 Colour Limited Reg. No. 2106 SAT 27 & SUN 28 SEPTEMBER visit: www.cockburnassociation.org.uk SUSTAINABLE EDINBURGH EDINBURGH MAPS P2 SEE what’s TALKS & WALKS SERIES 2014 P4 in your area! ADMISSION ABBEYHILL P6 TO BUILDINGS BALERNO P6 Admission to all buildings is FREE. Visitors entering buildings do so at their own risk; neither the BLACKFORD P6 organisers nor participants are responsible for any accidents or damages incurred. Whilst every effort CRAMOND P7 is made to ensure the accuracy of this programme, the Cockburn Association is not responsible if participating buildings alter their opening times or CORSTORPHINE P7 fail to open. Please be aware that some buildings will attract large numbers of visitors and you may have DALRY & GORGIE P8 to queue. Please ensure that you check opening times carefully, as arrival outwith these times will DUDDINGSTON & CRAIGMILLAR result in entry being refused. P8 EAST END & BROUGHTON KEY TO SYMBOLS P9 Accessible via Innertube Cycleways FAIRMILEHEAD P10 Toilet Facilities WC GOGAR & RATHO P10 Disabled Toilet Facilities INVERLEITH & WARRISTON P11 Full Wheelchair Access LAURISTON & TOLLCROSS Limited Wheelchair Access P12 Assisted Wheelchair Access LEITH P12 P Free Parking LOTHIANBURN P14 Refreshments MERCHISTON & MORNINGSIDE P14 PARKING MAY BE LIMITED Please use public transport where possible. NEWHAVEN P15 Keep in touch via our website and facebook for NEWTOWN P17 updates to the programme and the latest news Restoration, Conversion & Refurbishment Projects - Our established pedigree for more than 25 years on venues: www.cockburnassociation.org.uk and NEWINGTON P18 www.doorsopendays.org.uk Email: [email protected] OLD TOWN P19 Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/ Cockburn-Association/127366580612666 PORTOBELLO P23 Write to us at: The Cockburn Association, Trunk’s Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR. SOUTH QUEENSFERRY & DALMENY P24 Twitter: @theCockburn SOUTHSIDE P24 iPhone and Android App AVAILABLE Alteration & Extension Projects New Build Projects St Andrews Court, Gullane Available for Edinburgh Doors Open Day from STOCKBRIDGE P27 cockburnassociation.org.uk www.lornmacneal.co.uk 0131 226 3838 WEST END P28 2 ORCH 101 17 AR D BRAE 16 107 QUEENSFERRY 103 113 STREET STREET DUNDAS HANOVER R OAD 104 51 15 RAVELS TON DYKES RAVELSTON TERRACE 105 52 BROUGTON STREET BEL 114 56 18 LEITH WALK F ORD R 102 HERIOT ROW ABERCROMBY PLACE 19 O AD 109 50 53 54 110 ALBYN PLACE QUEEN STREET YORK PLACE 20 FREDERICKSTREET CHARLOTTE ST ANDREW T E E TR PALMERSTON PLACE GEORGE STREET 108 S 55 ITH SQUARE SQUARE E L LVILLE STREET ME 57 MAN PRINCES STREET 106 REGE WAVERLEY BR WAVERLEY 22 NT R T OAD O 115 R H E PRINCES STREET GARDENS BRIDGE SOUTH BRIDGE NORTH P M WAVERLEY 21 To Edinburgh Airport L O 112 SHANDWICK PLACE UND STATION HAYMARKET TERRACE MORRISON STREET CALTON ROAD L 75 O T P H MARKET STREET IA N EDINBURGH 63 RO C HAYMARKET A CASTLE 74 60 72/73 P ST P STATION AD LE 64 65 T HIGH STREET 111 E 81 R NONGATE R CA A HNSTON TERRACE CE JO 71 66 61 67/68 62 GEORG L ADY C DALRY ROAD P OWGATE D GRASSMARKET 69 ROA L OD AW 70 E WES I HOLYRO T A V PPR 9 S OACH ON B 78 RO R 89 A ST 96 D 79/80I D S STREET R G CHAMBER EE E T 97 29 31 76/77 WEST APPROACH ROAD 30 PLACE LAURISTON 92 LAURISTON 95 PLACE 86 93 GORGI NICOLSON STREET E ROAD 32 88 DUNDEE STREET FOUNTAINBRIDGE M E 98 LV 91 I 99 46 LLE DRIVE 94 HOME STREET MAP OF CENTRAL EDINBURGH THE MEADOWS 47 Approximate locations, please check addresses in venue listings. Not to Scale 90 MAP OF EDINBURGH < 84 Approximate locations, please check addresses in venue listings. < 85 Not to Scale 49 48 35 7 33/36 CRAMOND TRINITY LEITH 28 38 39 37 27 34 STOCKBRIDGE 1 82 8 PORTOBELLO 83 EDINBURGH MURRAYFILED HOLYROOD CORSTORPHINE PARK 24 87 14 100 58 SOUTH NEWCRAIGHALL GYLE 43 44 NEWINGTON 10 11 MORNINGSIDE 59 CRIAGMILLAR 41 13 <25 3 4/5/6 12 42 <26 WESTER 45 HAILES COMISTON LIBERTON DANDERHALL COLINTON 23 3 2 40 TALKS SERIES 2014 WALKS SERIES 2014 SAT 10AM & SUN 12NOON 1-2PM AT RCAHMS, 16 BERNARD TERRACE Calton Hill to Princes Street Gardens Advanced booking advised via cockburnassociation.eventbrite.co.uk Booking by Monday 22nd September essential at cockburnassociation.eventbrite.co.uk MON 22 SEP Proposals for Edinburgh Law School at Old College : A Building of Two Halves A two hour guided walk with a member of the Scottish Tourist Guides Association (STGA) that will finish at the Ross Fountain. DERMOT PATTERSON, LDN ARCHITECTS Meet at the Collective Gallery on Calton Hill. TUE 23 SEP Back from the dead - what we can learn from the history of cemetery management and make a sustainable future for Edinburgh’s graveyards DR. SUSAN BUCKHAM SAT 2PM & SUN 1PM Calton Hill Booking essential at cockburnassociation.eventbrite.co.uk WED 24 SEP Towards a New Sustainability One hour walks led on Saturday by Dr. Kirsten Carter McKee and on Sunday by Peter McGowan, CHRIS STEWART, DIRECTOR AT COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTURE & Landscape architect. VICE CHAIR OF THE SCOTTISH ECOLOGICAL DESIGN ASSOCIATION Meet at the East Gate of the Old Observatory. THU 25 SEP Edinburgh’s World Heritage DAVID HICKS, EDINBURGH WORLD HERITAGE TRUST SAT 11AM, 2PM & SUN 3PM Dean Valley FRI 26 SEP Public Washouses Booking essential at cockburnassociation.eventbrite.co.uk STEVEN ROBB, HISTORIC SCOTLAND Walks led on Saturday by Robert Barnham and Johanna Lausen-Higgins and on Sunday by Andrew Kerr W.S. Meet on the Stockbridge, (next to Dean Terrace) on the upstream side. 6-7.30PM AT RIDDLE’S COURT, 322 LAWNMARKET Advanced booking advised via cockburnassociation.eventbrite.co.uk SAT 2PM & SUN 11AM Dean Cemetery MON 22 SEP On the best ways of preserving the Beauty of Edinburgh 1875 – 2014 Booking essential at cockburnassociation.eventbrite.co.uk MARION WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR, THE COCKBURN ASSOCIATION The walk on Saturday led by Christopher Dingwall and on Sunday by Vanessa Stephen. TUE 23 SEP The Redevelopment of Advocates Close Meet at the East Gate, 63 Dean path, EH4 3AT. GUY MORGAN, ARCHITECT WED 24 SEP A Passion for Herbs SAT & SUN 10.30AM, 2PM & 3PM HAMISH, SECRET HERB GARDEN The Secret Herb Garden (see venue 40) THU 25 SEP Robert Adam and the Strange Death of Scottish Architecture Booking essential at cockburnassociation.eventbrite.co.uk CHRICTON WOOD ARCHITECT 10.30 - 11.15AM A Magic Faeries and Herbal Walk (suggested age 2-7yrs) FRI 26 SEP Vivendo Discimus-By Living We Learn: Creating The Patrick Geddes 2.00 - 2.30PM An introduction walk on weeds and medicine (for the grown ups) Centre for Learning and Conservation at Riddle’s Court. 3.00 - 3.45PM A Herbal Safari (suggested age 6-12yrs) UNA RICHARDS, DIRECTOR, SCOTTISH HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST Meet at the entrance to the nursery. To see the full Innertube map and all eleven Edinburgh City Cycleway routes... 4 get around get active visit: www.thebikestation.org.uk/innertube-map 5 why not use the Edinburgh City Cycleways Innertube? Look out for this logo for venues accessible via the Edinburgh City Cycleways Innertube ABBEYHILL demonstrations and exhibits and Chemistry Outreach: www.chem. There will be a host of exhibits and BLACKFORD BALERNO go behind the scenes at a leading ed.ac.uk/outreach activities to suit all ages, covering CORSTORPHINE REMEMBER TO CHECK scientific establishment to discover everything from James Hutton, one ACTIVITIES: guided tours, information OUR WEBSITE AND how they contribute to astronomy leaflets/notes, performances, behind the of the founders of geology, to the FACEBOOK PAGE FOR at every stage in the process from scenes access, children’s activities, visual techniques employed in modern ADDITIONAL VENUES designing a new telescope to using displays, stewards/volunteers at key points. geosciences. Discover more AND UPDATES. and storing the data produced. about BGS’s involvement in the 2. HARMENY SCHOOL 5. ARCADIA CHILDREN’S quest for new sources of energy 8. CORSTORPHINE HILL Although the site will remain open NURSERY and the efforts made to mitigate TOWER MANSFIELD ROAD, BALERNO, until 5pm, last admissions to the against environmental impact. EH14 7JY observatory are at 4.30pm. 63 WEST MAINS ROAD, EH9 3JE Hands-on displays of minerals, CORSTORPHINE HILL LANE, ABBEYHILL CLERMISTON ROAD, EH12 www.roe.ac.uk rocks and fossils, demonstrations SAT 11AM-4PM SAT 10AM-4PM of mountain building, glaciers, ACTIVITIES: lectures/talks, information earthquakes and volcanoes and SAT/SUN 2PM-4PM WC P leaflets/notes, behind the scenes access, WC origins of the Northern Lights. The children’s activities, visual displays, stewards/volunteers at key points. popular programme of talks will run Harmeny School is a residential Designed by award-winning throughout the day covering the 1. THE UK NATIONAL special school working with young architect Malcolm Fraser and diversity of the work of the survey CENTRE FOR FUNG LOY children whose difficulties impact 4. THE KING’S BUILDINGS, inspired by the concept of ‘free and its collaborators. KOK TAOIST TAI CHI on their social, emotional and UNIVERSITY OF play’, Arcadia Nursery is Edinburgh’s www.bgs.ac.uk 69 MARIONVILLE ROAD, behavioural development and give EDINBURGH newest and most innovative BALERNO rise to complex additional support nursery. Building on research on CRAMOND EH7 6AQ WEST MAINS ROAD/MAYFIELD ACTIVITIES: lectures/talks, information needs.