Doors Open Days 2019 in

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 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 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. and 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. The main design has been drawn Guided tours of the Archive Store by Andrew Crummy and workshops have been held to will take place at 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 recruit volunteers and select additional subjects. Visitors and 12:00 and each tour will last will be able to see the outline drawings on the linen approximately 45 minutes. Tour panel and to find out more about the background to the groups are limited to 15 people and project, which is being coordinated by Clackmannanshire places must be booked in advance. TSI. The display will be adjacent to the Archive Store on the ground floor. To book please call 01259 452272 or email [email protected]. There is a P D TD lift for disabled access and the Archive Store is wheelchair accessible. 6 The Coach House Theatre (1900) 7 Tullibody Road, Alloa FK10 2HU Alloa Park, Alloa FK10 1PP

The Alman Dramatic Club was formed in 1939 by a group One of the largest and of fifteen women led by Helen Wright and Nettie Forsyth finest towers of its type in and soon became the largest performing arts group Scotland, it was home to the in the county. This informal group developed into an distinguished Erskine family, amateur dramatic club. In 1953 the Club was allowed to Earls of Mar, from the later use the hay loft in the former Coach House of Inglewood, 14th century until 1800. By a mansion built in 1900 by the Forrester-Paton family and 1693 a mansion, kitchen designed by A G Sydney Mitchell & Wilson. The estate tower, brew house and other was later owned by the and the Club buildings had been added. eventually purchased the Coach House. In 1702 John, 6th Earl of Mar, began to convert the tower The Hay Loft Theatre into an elegant modern house opened in 1957, but and created an ambitious and in 1959 its present extensive planned landscape around his home. name was adopted. Since then it has been In 1800 the mansion was destroyed the Club’s permanent by fire, but the tower survived. By home, its unique 63- the 1980s it was derelict. Alloa seat theatre providing Tower Building Preservation Trust audiences with an restored it to its likely appearance intimate theatrical experience where they have seen in 1712. The tower was opened numerous performances, including many full-length formally by Her plays, as well as modern Majesty the writing, comedy, tragedy Queen in 1997. and satire. The Club has A fine collection performed works by all the of Erskine family great playwrights, national portraits is and international, as well displayed, along with many items of as its own members’ work. family silver, while a DVD tells the story The theatre is also used by of the tower. Alloa Tower is now owned other groups for a range of and managed by the National Trust for cultural activities. Scotland.

The building was renovated with grants from the Heritage Saturday 28th September 12.00 - 4.00 Lottery Fund and many other supporters. Sunday 29th September 12.00 - 4.00

Sunday 29th September 11.00 - 4.00 Costumed guides and medieval and later craft activities will be on display. Guided tours and the chance to look at costumes and properties from the Club’s extensive and fascinating Last entry at 3.00 collections and see a fascinating film about the history of Special exhibition of memorabilia from the Mar & Kellie the Club collection P T R D P PD TD R Alva Old Kirkyard & Johnstone Mausoleum 9 (1790) 8 Alva Ice House (c1820) Loan Side, Ochil Road, Alva FK12 5JT Woodland Park, Alva FK12 5HU The church of St Serf was rebuilt in 1632 but abandoned James Raymond Johnstone in the 1980s when the congregation merged with that of inherited the Alva House the Eadie Church. It was demolished after a fire in 1985. estate in 1795. He added a Its ‘footprint’ and some inscribed stones remain, along new west wing and probably with many trade gravestones in the kirkyard. The Erskine the stable block and ice house, family, cousins of the Earls of Mar, had a burial vault in c.1810-20. The ice house is beneath the church and buried on the slope below the there is a plaque in memory stables. of Dr Robert Erskine (1677- 1718), who was Chief By the mid 19th century most Physician to Tzar Peter the country houses and estates had an ice house, to keep Great. provisions cold and fresh and provide a supply of ice for fruit sherbets and table decorations. The introduction of The Johnstone Mausoleum refrigeration in the early 1900s was designed by Robert rendered ice houses obsolete. and James Adam for John Johnstone (1734–1795), This ice house is a fine who bought the Alva estate example, consisting of an from James Erskine, Lord entrance passage leading into Alva, in 1775. Johnstone a heptagonal corridor around built the mausoleum c1790. It is one of only four Adam the main ice chamber, which is mausolea in Scotland. Johnstone, his wife and six of their egg-shaped, with a flattened descendants are buried in the base and a hatch at the top through which to lower the original mausoleum: an eastern ice. The corridor has six niches set into the inner walls, extension was added in the with stone shelves on which to 19th century to accommodate store food. There would have been additional burials. The three doors, to maintain a dry, even mausoleum has been restored temperature and atmosphere for and a glass roof has replaced the the ice. The ice house was restored pitched roof of the 19th century as part of the Ochils Landscape extension. Partnership programme. The Old Kirkyard was restored as Saturday 28th September 12.00 - 4.00 part of the Historic Kirkyards Trail Sunday 29th September 12.00 - 4.00 project of the Ochils Landscape Partnership programme. Guided tours, with maximum 10 people in ice house at a time. Visitors should note that this is not suitable for Saturday 28th September people with mobility difficulties. Sturdy footwear and Sunday 29th September outdoor clothing are essential, as access is via uneven surfaces and steps. Guided tours at 2.00 and 3.00

P P PD Clackmannan Clackmannan Parish Church (1813-15) 11 High Street, Clackmannan FK10 4JG 10 Clackmannan Heritage Walks Designed by James Gillespie Graham, this fine Town Hall, 63, Main street, Clackmannan FK10 4JA building probably replaced the medieval church built on the site in 1249. In perpendicular Georgian Gothic, there have been a number of alterations, but the interior retains many of its original features, including the pews and gallery. A plaque by Sir Robert Lorimer and original wooden cross commemorate Robert Bruce, Master of Burleigh, who was killed at Le Cateau on 26th August 1914, in one of the early campaigns of the First World War. Clackmannan was once the county town, where the The stained glass is impressive and all of mid-20th Sheriff Court was held and where the Tolbooth was century date. The Coronation window, the only one in the built in 1592. There will be guided walks around this county, is in the east wall of the gallery. Her Majesty the fascinating historic town, led by members of the Heritage Queen visited on 9th Group. The walks will look at the Stone of Mannan, the July 1997 to see the Mercat Cross, the remains of the Tolbooth, Clackmannan window. Tower and other important buildings and sites which help The kirkyard has to tell the story of the town from which the county take some late 17th and its name. early 18th century Saturday 28th September trade gravestones and the Bruce family Guided Walks at 11.00 and 1.30 memorials. The guided walks will start from Clackmannan Town Saturday 28th September 9.30 - 5.00 Hall. They will be partly suitable for people with mobility difficulties. Outdoor clothing and sensible footwear are Home-made soup and sandwiches available essential, especially in case of bad weather. from 12.00 - 2.00 Booking is advised; to book, please call Clackmannan Tea and coffee available at other times Development Trust 01259 219473 or email Sunday 29th September 2.00 - 4.00 [email protected] Tea/coffee and biscuits will be available after the walks in P PD TD R the Craigrie Room, Clackmannan Town Hall, where there will also be a display about the Craigrie Lade system by Clackmannanshire Field Studies Society.

P TD R 12 Clackmannan Tower (14th - 15th centuries) Dollar High Street, Clackmannan FK10 4JG Dollar Museum (early 19th century) 13 Castle Campbell Hall, High Street, Dollar FK14 7AY

This fine independent, community-run museum occupies part of a former early 19th century woollen mill and has Clackmannan Tower dates from c1360 and was built by permanent displays about the Bruce family. In the 15th century the building was the history of Dollar and raised to its current height and the taller south wing was its environs, including constructed. A new mansion was built to the west of the Granny’s Kitchen, Castle Campbell, Dollar Academy and tower in the late 16th century and in the 17th century the Devon Valley Railway. On the first floor is a reading further changes were made to the tower. Lady Catherine and research room. Bruce, the last of the family, lived Dollar Museum celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2018. It in the mansion until her death in has created and shown about 150 temporary exhibitions 1791. since it opened in 1988 and the new exhibition for 2019 is The tower has been in the as follows: guardianship of the State since Developing Dollar – a century of housing in Dollar the 1950s and is managed on its This exhibition tells the fascinating story of the 33 major behalf by Historic Environment housing developments which have taken place in Dollar Scotland, which has undertaken extensive repairs. Further in the last hundred years, focussing on plans, planning improvements have been carried out recently as part of issues and the memories of those who grew up in the the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative programme. New new houses. The display ‘Moving House’ also showcases a internal barriers have improved safety for visitors, the range of household items from the 1920s to the present scaffolded staircase has been removed and new lighting day. has been installed this year. Saturday 28th September Saturday 28th September 11.00 -1.00 and 2.00 - 4.30 Visits by pre-booked guided tour only at 9.30, 10.00, 10.30, Sunday 29th September 2.00 - 4.30 11.00, 11.30, 12.00, 1.15, 1.45, 2.15, 2.45, 3.15 and 3.45. Each tour will last 45 minutes. Visitors will be admitted only P PD TD if they have booked and are on the list. To book, please call Historic Environment Scotland 0131 550 7603 or email [email protected] by no later than 12 noon on Friday 27th September. Visitors should note that this is not suitable for people with mobility difficulties. Sturdy footwear and outdoor clothing are essential, as access is via a field, a spiral staircase and uneven floors and part of the tour is outdoors. There are some low lintels and ceilings and hard hats may be worn; we will provide hats for adults, but children may wish to bring cycle helmets with them. Children under 16 must be supervised.

P Sauchie Tower (c1415-20) 15 near Fishcross FK10 3AN 14 Devon Colliery Beam Engine House (1865) Scottish SPCA, Fishcross, FK10 3AN Sir James Schaw of Greenock acquired the estate of Sauchie by marriage and probably built Sauchie Tower Devon Colliery has had a long history. Flooding forced c1415-20. The Schaws were an influential family in it to close in 1854, but it was reopened in 1879 by Alloa medieval Scotland. Coal Company, which installed new pit-head plant, including the impressive Beam Engine House, which The tower complex included an housed a Cornish-style outer wall, cobbled courtyard beam pumping engine built and large hall with kitchen and by Neilson & Co in Glasgow bread oven. The west courtyard in 1865. It could pump 2,560 wall was partly remodelled gallons of water per minute c1490, to include gunholes out of the colliery. It took and corner tower. In 1631 this about a year to drain the was incorporated into Sauchie pit, with millions of gallons House, built by Alexander of water being pumped out Schaw, who was knighted in every 24 hours. The steam 1633 by Charles I. engine was also used to In c1710 the family moved to their new drive machinery of all kinds mansion of Schawpark. A cottage was and was in operation until 1932, when electric pumps built against the south end of Sauchie were installed. House. The tower roof fell in c1858 and Devon Colliery was the largest and longest lasting the bartizans (corner turrets) and gables colliery in Clackmannanshire. It closed in 1960 and the collapsed c1890. Sauchie House was beam engine was partly dismantled. The Beam Engine demolished in 1930 and the cottage House was restored by Clackmannan District Council in soon afterwards. 1993, by which time only the massive cast-iron beam Sauchie Tower is owned by Clackmannanshire Heritage and part of the pump-rod remained. It is one of the few Trust. The Friends of Sauchie Tower were established surviving beam engines in Scotland. It was converted to to support the restoration of the tower. The group was office space and, after sporadic use, was later sold to the awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to carry out the Scottish SPCA, which is now developing plans to use it as project entitled Sauchie Tower and its Environs. an educational information centre. Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust and the Friends are Saturday 28th September 10.00 - 5.00 planning to raise funds to complete the excavation of Sunday 29th September 10.00 - 5.00 the site, finish the restoration of Sauchie Tower, conserve the ruins of Sauchie House and reshape the surrounding Guides landscape.

Exhibition about early mining in Clackmannanshire Sunday 29th September 10.00 - 5.00 Displays about the work of the Scottish SPCA Guided tours Please note that there is access only to the ground floor Visitors should note that this is not suitable for people P with mobility difficulties. P Sauchie

16 Sauchie and Parish Church Tillicoultry Parish Church (1827-29) 17 (1842, 1889, 1900) Dollar Road, Tillicoultry FK13 6PD Main Street, Sauchie FK10 3JX This striking and unusual church was designed by William The church was built to replace its predecessor, built in 1773 on a site a as a chapel of ease little to the east. Much in 1842. The design of the stone from the consists of a plain earlier structure was nave with a tall, square probably used to build eastern tower of four the new church. stages, including a Built in neo- belfry. The bell was Perpendicular style, installed in 1846 and the church features was rung in the traditional manner until recently, but is buttresses to the sides now operated by pushing an electric switch. of each bay which end in impressively tall, pointed finials. Improvements were made in about 1889, including the Stirling’s original design may have included a spire or two west windows, with stained glass representing Faith, tower, but it was never built. Hope and Charity and the Bible, Holy Spirit and Lamb of The octagonal bellcote over the God. The north and south windows include symbols of the north entrance houses a bell cast Four Evangelists and were installed between 1929 -1946. in Rotterdam in 1670 by Cornelius The furnishings include a finely carved Communion table Ouderogge; this was removed from presented in 1932; the pulpit, moved to its present side the medieval church which stood position in 1972; an octagonal baptismal font donated in further north on Kirk Hill, refitted 1948 and a Hammond organ, probably the third organ in its 18th century successor then in the church. The church united with Coalsnaughton moved again to its present location. Parish Church in 1994 and its baptismal font, a gift from A horseshoe-shaped gallery was the Sunday School in 1943, and Communion table were replaced in 1920 by a single gallery. The fine, three-light moved here. There are two adjacent halls, one built in stained glass window of 1924 by Douglas Strachan was 1900 and the other in 1956/7. installed in memory of the Rev Joseph Conn. Saturday 28th September 10.00 - 3.00 The kirkyard contains several interesting gravestones, Sunday 29th September 11.30 - 3.00 many of which were restored as part of the Historic Kirkyards Trail project of the Ochils Landscape Partnership There will be an exhibition in the church to celebrate programme. They shed light on the inhabitants of the 25th anniversary of the coming together of Tillicoultry as it developed into an industrial town, with Coalsnaughton and Sauchie churches. There will also be many textile mills. a small display to commemorate the D Day landings in June 1944. The church will be decorated for the Harvest Saturday 28th September 2.00 - 4.00 Thanksgiving. Sunday 29th September 2.00 - 4.00

On Saturday only there will be a table top sale in the Information will be available about the history of the church hall from 10.00 until 1.00. church.

P PD TD R P PD TD R Tullibody Tullibody Community Garden 19 Carseview, Tullibody FK10 2SR 18 St Serf’s Church (1904) Tullibody Community Garden Road, Tullibody FK10 2RG is run by the charity Tullibody This church was built Healthy Living. The garden is to replace the Old Kirk cultivated by volunteers, who and remains remarkably gain valuable horticultural skills, unaltered. It is of plain as well as growing affordable fruit form and was designed by and vegetables to encourage local P Macgregor Chalmers. It people to create fresh, healthy consists of a nave with low meals. The volunteers have north aisle and eastern apse brought a wide range of skills to the project; some had no and mostly round-arched, vegetable gardening experience at all, while others have Romanesque windows. lots of experience as amateurs or professional gardeners. Many of them are unemployed and volunteering helps The interior remains equally them in a number of ways, boosting confidence, getting intact, with bare stone walls them out of the house and keeping them physically and open wooden roofs active. It is also a great opportunity for everyone to make over the use of their own knowledge and skills. nave and aisle; the apse has a plastered ceiling. The furnishings - plain pews and round stone font - are entirely contemporary with the building, as are the three stained glass windows, which were designed by Stephen Adam & Son of Glasgow. The fine west window was restored a few years ago. On an aisle column, window jamb and door lintel are carved phrases and beatitudes. A wrought iron stand near the south door holds a bell, dated 1838, which used to hang in the bellcote of the Saturday 28th September 12.00 - 3.00 Old Kirk. Guided tours of the garden Saturday 28th September 12.00 - 4.00 Produce for sale Sunday 29th September 2.00 - 4.00 P D TD Guided tours

P PD TD 20 Tullibody Heritage Centre Abercromby Place, Tullibody FK10 2RS

Tullibody is an ancient parish linked to . A church was founded in 1149, and parts of Tullibody Old Kirk are probably of that date, though a date stone records its restoration in 1539. It was damaged by the French army of Mary of Guise twenty years later. It was restored again, with the addition of a bellcote, in 1760 by George Abercromby and turned into the family mausoleum. In 1833 it became a chapel of ease, but it was abandoned as unsafe in 1904 and unroofed in 1916. Two phases of restoration work have been completed. The Heritage Centre is run by Tullibody History Group and tells the story of the village and neighbouring Cambus. Tullibody grew around the medieval church, but in c1800 the Abercromby family of Tullibody House moved it. The focus of the new village was around Main Street and the Tron Tree. It expanded in the 1950s, when new housing was built for a large influx of miners from Lanarkshire, who came to work in Glenochil Colliery. The displays include a doll’s house modelled on Tullibody House; a replica Victorian schoolroom and a 1940s style kitchen; an illustrated genealogy of the Abercromby family; stories about significant local people, such as the remarkable botanist and geologist Robert Dick, as well as William Burns Paterson, who founded what is now Alabama State University.

Saturday 28th September 2.00 - 4.00 Sunday 29th September 1.00 - 4.00

A leaflet enabling visitors to do a self-guided tour around the Old Kirk (exterior only) and kirkyard is available from the Heritage Centre.

P D TD R 1 Alloa Fire Station 8 Alva Ice House 15 Sauchie Tower

2 Alloa Ludgate Church 9 Old Kirkyard and the Johnstone Mausoleum 16 Sauchie & Coalsnaughton Parish Church

3 St John’s Episcopal Church 10 Clackmannan Heritage Walks 17 Tillicoultry Parish Church

4 St Mungo’s Parish Church 11 Clackmannan Parish Church 18 St Serf’s Church

5 Speirs Centre (New) 12 Clackmannan Tower 19 Tullibody Community Garden

6 The Coach House Theatre 13 Dollar Museum 20 Tullibody Heritage Centre

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Town Centre Properties Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust would like to thank the many people and organisations who have helped to make the Doors Open Days 2019 programme possible. We are very grateful for their continuing enthusiasm and support.

For more information about the programme please contact Susan Mills, Area Coordinator, Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust Tel: 07765 053879 Email: [email protected]

Scottish Civic Trust The Tobacco Merchants House 42 Miller Street, Glasgow G1 1DT www.scottishcivictrust.org.uk www.doorsopendays.org.uk