Doors Open Days 2019 in Clackmannanshire
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Doors Open Days 2019 in Clackmannanshire 28th & 29th September 30th Anniversary Doors Open Days 2019 In Clackmannanshire Doors Open Days is celebrated in September A highlight and new this year is throughout Scotland as part of the Council of Europe Clackmannanshire Council Archives European Heritage Days. People can visit free of in the Speirs Centre, where there will charge places of cultural and historic interest which also be an exhibition celebrating Alloa are not normally open to the public. Pottery and a display about the new Clackmannanshire panel for the Great The event aims to encourage everyone to appreciate Tapestry of Scotland. The former Devon and help to preserve their built heritage. Doors Open Colliery Beam Engine House will be open again, as will Days is promoted nationally by The Scottish Civic Trust Tullibody Community Garden, which is encouraging with part sponsorship from Historic people to grow their own food and eat more healthily. Environment Scotland. Please note that in some buildings only the ground floor Doors Open Days in Clackmannanshire is accessible to people with mobility difficulties. Please is coordinated by Clackmannanshire refer to the key next to each entry. Visitors enter the Heritage Trust, with some support buildings at their own risk. Neither Clackmannanshire from Clackmannanshire Council. Heritage Trust nor any participating building owners are There will be guided tours of Alloa, responsible for any accidents or damage incurred. Clackmannan and Sauchie Towers. Clackmannan Heritage Walks will Key to abbreviations explore the fascinating story of the village. St Mungo’s Parish Church P Parking nearby in Alloa continues to celebrate its D Property accessible to visitors with disabilities Bicentenary; all of the churches taking PD Property partly accessible to visitors with disabilities part are well worth a visit to discover their stories and splendid interiors. T Toilets TD Toilet accessible to visitors with disabilities Popular destinations Alloa Fire Station, The Coach House Theatre, Alva Ice House and the Johnstone Mausoleum, R Refreshments available Dollar Museum and Tullibody Heritage Centre will also welcome people again. Alloa Alloa Ludgate Church (1863-4,1902-4, 2012) 2 Bedford Place, Alloa FK10 1DS 1 Alloa Fire Station (1964) This church was designed by Clackmannan Road, Alloa FK10 1SA Peddie & Kinnear in Early French Alloa Fire Station opened in 1964. It currently has three Gothic style and replaced a plain fire appliances, including specialist vehicles for urban 18th century building. In 1902 search and rescue and heavy rescue, one of which is Scots late Gothic transepts and crewed by twelve retained personnel. There are twenty- a pine and marble sanctuary five wholetime personnel operating on a five-watch with an elaborate pulpit by A G rotational duty system. Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, who had also designed Greenfield The inception of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service House for David Thomson, were in April 2013 means that these fire crews and their added; David Thomson and his supporting equipment from Alloa could be called upon to brother John Thomson Paton mobilise to anywhere in Scotland. paid for this work. The north The role of the fire window is in memory of their service has changed parents, while the west and east transept windows were dramatically since given by the Procters, another branch of the Paton family. 1964. The modern All three windows are by C E Kempe. fire service of today The 1904 pipe organ by Messrs attends a range of Lewis and Co was also given incidents including by the Thomsons. The adjacent fires, road traffic church hall was designed by the collisions, urban search Alloa architect Adam Frame in and rescue, water 1891. rescue and rope rescue. The appliances and equipment within Alloa display the vast array of equipment required The interior was altered several for these tasks. The crews are also pro-actively involved years ago: the original pews in all aspects of community safety work, including the were removed, the marble altar delivery of home fire safety visits and engaging with the moved to the west transept local community to give fire safety advice. and the walls and roof painted. Memorials and other fittings To book a free Home Fire Safety Visit text ‘fire’ to 61611, from the former North Church call 0800 0731 999 or visit the website: have been incorporated into the www.firescotland.gov.uk modernised church. Saturday 28th September 10.30 - 11.30 and 2.00 - 3.00 Saturday 28th September 10.30 - 3.30 Sunday 29th September 2.00 - 3.00 Sunday 29th September 1.00 - 3.30 Visitors are welcome to attend the service at 10.30 Guided tours will last up to an hour, but visitors must be aware that in the event of an emergency call they will be Guided tours available on request asked to leave. P PD TD P PD T 3 St John’s Episcopal Church St Mungo’s Parish Church (1816-19) 4 1867-9, 1872, c1900) Bedford Place, Alloa FK10 1LJ Broad Street, Alloa FK10 1AN Designed by James This fine church was Gillespie Graham to designed by Sir Robert replace the old parish Rowand Anderson in a church in Kirkgate, this simple Geometric style, Late Georgian building with a separate bell-tower is a large, ornate, and tall, broach spire. It is battlemented rectangle one of the most beautifully with a five-bay north designed and finished elevation. It has an Episcopal churches in impressive 207ft high Scotland. It was built for spire, its corners clasped Walter Coningsby Erskine, by flying buttresses with Earl of Kellie, as a gift to crocketed pinnacles. the congregation. External additions were made in 1966-7 by Leslie Grahame Thomson. The ornate interior includes stained glass by C The interior was also much altered by the A Gibbs (1869), C E Kempe (1890, 1902), Douglas Strachan same architect, who removed the galleries (1913) and Margaret Chilton (1939) given by the Erskine and added the panelled wood ceiling in family, William Bailey of Alloa Pottery and the Younger 1936-7, as well as designing the pulpit, family, brewers in Alloa; a Sicilian lectern, font and oak pews. In 1966-7 he marble altar with a reredos mosaic by created a new west chancel. Salviati of Venice; and some very fine The interesting stained glass is of memorials, including an impressive late 19th and 20th century date, marble effigy of Walter Coningsby and includes work by William Erskine, a World War I memorial Meikle & Sons (1901), A L Moore designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and & Co. (1901), William Wilson a chancel screen and accompanying (1951-2) and John Blyth (1991). memorial tablet of 1902 in memory of 2nd Lieutenant E J Younger, killed in The Congregation has recently the Boer War. The tablet contains an completed a two-year conservation, restoration enamel by Phoebe Anna Traquair. and facilities enhancement programme on both the internal and external fabric of Restoration of the spire and chancel the building, which celebrated its 200th was completed with financial support anniversary in June 2019. Visitors will have an opportunity from the Heritage Lottery Fund, to see this work, as well as a new commemorative stained Historic Environment Scotland and glass window and time capsule commissioned to mark the other funding bodies. Bicentenary. Saturday 28th September 1.30 - 4.00 Saturday 28th September 11.00 - 3.00 Guided tours Sunday 29th September 12.30 - 3.00 Guided tours P D TD P D TD NEW 5 Speirs Centre Visitors will also be able to see Primrose Place., Alloa FK10 1AD Exhibition: Alloa Pottery - A Celebration The Speirs Centre was built as Alloa Public Baths and Alloa Pottery Gymnasium and was gifted by John Thomson Paton, was established Managing Director of John Paton, Son & Co. Ltd, KIlncraigs in c1783, but its Mill. It was designed by John James Burnet, Son & heyday began Campbell. It opened on 29th April 1898. The building when it was taken has been described as ‘one of Scotland’s finest public over in 1856 by baths and gymnasiums’. It closed at the end of 1986, then Joseph Bailey, reopened as a gymnastic centre on 13th January 1989 as an Edinburgh the Speirs Centre, in memory of the Clackmannanshire china and glass boxer Tommy Speirs. It closed again in 2012 and merchant. His reopened on 18th October 2014, with a new extension sons later ran designed by LDN Architects. the pottery, modernising, It provides a wide range of services, including a library; expanding and improving it. W & J A Bailey’s Alloa Pottery local and family history research centre; Registry; flourished, winning awards, producing an extensive customer services, county Archives and exhibitions on the range of pottery and engraved glassware and claiming history and heritage of the county. Clackmannanshire’s to hold a stock of 100,000 tea pots. It eventually closed in Archive Collection was moved into a new storage facility 1907. This new exhibition has been researched, devised in the building in 2017. The Archives include records of and arranged by the Friends of Clackmannanshire Clackmannanshire Council and its predecessor bodies Heritage and includes about 150 pieces from the county and also contain privately donated collections from local Heritage Collection. It is on display on the ground and companies, clubs, families and individuals. The Archives mezzanine floors. will be open for booked tours. There will also be displays relating to the history of the building and a look at what the county was like thirty years ago, to mark the 30th The Great Tapestry of Scotland - a new panel for anniversary of Doors Open Days. Clackmannanshire Part of the Great Tapestry of Scotland was shown in Saturday 28th September 9.00 – 1.00 the Speirs Centre in 2017; since then a panel has been researched and designed to tell aspects of the story of Clackmannanshire Archives Clackmannanshire.