FREE EVENT SAT 28 & SUN 29 SEPTEMBER 2019 Edinburgh Doors Open Day 2019 includes East Lothian venues Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 September Support the Cockburn Association and Edinburgh Doors Open Day Who are we? The Cockburn Association (The Edinburgh Civic Your support enables us to organise city wide Trust) is an independent charity which relies on the free events such as Doors Open Days, bringing support of its members to protect and enhance together Edinburgh’s communities in a celebration the amenity of Edinburgh. We have been working of our unique heritage. since 1875 to improve the built and natural All members of the Association receive an environment of the city – for residents, visitors and advance copy of the Doors Open Days workers alike. programme and invitations throughout the year We campaign to prevent inappropriate to lectures, talks and events. development in the City and to preserve the If you are interested in joining the Association, Green Belt, to promote sustainable development, visit us online at www.cockburnassociation.org.uk restoration and high quality modern architecture. or feel free to call or drop in to our offices at We are always happy to advise our members on Trunk’s Close. issues relating to planning. The Cockburn Association (The Edinburgh Civic Trust) The Cockburn Association is a registered Scottish charity, No: SC011544 For everyone who loves Edinburgh Trunk’s Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh T: 0131 557 8686 1 THE NEW TOWN All lectures will be held at the French Institute of Scotland, Lecture Series 2019 West Parliament Square, Edinburgh EH1 1RF. Events Series 2019 23rd – 27th September Lunchtime lectures £3 / Evening lectures £5 24th – 29th September Mon 23rd 12:00 – 12:45 & Wed 25th 12:00 – 12:45 Thur 26th 19:00 – 20:00 Patrick Geddes Centre Talks Sat 10:00 – 12:00 Sat and Sun 10:00 – 16:00 19:00 – 20:00 Chiara Ronchini Cliff Hague Patrick Geddes Centre book via Architecture Tour of the Traditional Building Jo Parry-Geddes and David Gibbon People, place and power Thinking globally and acting https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the- New Town Demonstration by SPAB Fellow Property Repair Seminar: Chiara Ronchini shares examples locally - about Edinburgh patrick-geddes-centre-at-riddles- Learn of Scotland’s cultural Peter McKlusky Find out from traditional building of community heritage practice What are the global trends and court-8617499172 connection to Ancient Greece Trunk’s Close, 55 High Street, experts how to keep your traditional around Scotland and beyond. Chiara international obligations that and Rome on a walk through the EH1 1SR Tues 24th Sept 18:00 – 19:00 home in well maintained and good Ronchini is an architect and heritage Edinburgh’s citizens and policy largest Georgian planned town Come join the Society for the Patrick Geddes: Think Global, repair, plus guidance on working professional focusing on community- makers need to be aware of? development in the world. Stroll Protection of Ancient Buildings in Act Local with your neighbours for common led projects and sustainability in How have they put Edinburgh on its symmetrical grid of extravagant Scotland as SPAB Scholar Peter repairs such as those in Edinburgh Scotland, and a consultant for a strong growth trajectory, and A great circle of global connectivity tenements and romantic private McCluskey leads you through a beautiful tenements. This lecture UNESCO in Uzbekistan, Egypt, is it sustainable? The talk will set and collaboration can be drawn gardens. Soak in the neoclassical fun day looking into the world will be repeated in the evening Croatia and Italy. Edinburgh in its European and global around Sir Patrick Geddes, one of ornaments under the starlit dome of of traditional building skills. Short slot on Monday with a review of context and explore disruptions that Scotland’s greatest polymaths. This the most magnificent banking hall in demonstrations on roof slating, cast legislation relating to tenements, Wed 25th 19:00 – 20:00 could shape its future. Cliff Hague is light introductory talk, hosted in the Europe. Grasp the origins of palatial iron rainwater goods, and plaster helping owners to understand Paul Everett Chair of the Cockburn Association dining room he designed to inspire facades, elegant ironwork, and a works give visitors an opportunity their and their co-owner rights and Building stone in Scotland: and Emeritus Professor of Planning his students, will explore how his palette of sandstone finishes. for hands-on learning sure to be an responsibilities. Glorious past … uncertain future and Spatial Development at Heriot- breathless global projects and ideas Booking essential via exciting day. Natural stone has been a favoured Watt University transcended traditional boundaries www.cobbletales.com/dod Tue 24th 12:00 – 12:45 building material throughout and resonate around the world today. Sat and Sun, 10:30 and 14:00 Balfour Beatty Scotland’s history, but proper Fri 27th 12:00 – 12:45 Sat 10.30 Unlocking the Union Canal Thurs 26th Sept 18:00 – 19:00 Family Bike Ride Walking Tour North Bridge Renovation maintenance of stone buildings and Terry Levinthal Arts and Craft in Revolutionary Edinburgh Family Rides is delighted Meeting at Edinburgh Quay, The North Bridge is a Grade A structures poses many challenges. 170 years of Agitation: Henry China to be offering a family friendly EH3 9QG listed heritage site, connecting This lecture will demonstrate Cockburn and the work of the Riddle’s Court plays host to the Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns how geological knowledge and Cockburn Association bike ride as part of Doors Open Scotland’s canals played a defining Confucious Institute’s major Day. Meet at Victoria Park (by role in the history of the Industrial and providing essential public understanding is helping to maintain This light-hearted talk will look at the exhibition of Chinese bed quilts transport links to the city. Since and conserve our country’s priceless legacy of Lord “Henry” Cockburn Jack’s Café and the playpark) and Age of Great Britain and Ireland, and during this year’s Doors Open Days, cycle off to visit Trinity House and each has a fascinating and unique STOCKBRIDGE & INVERLEITH STOCKBRIDGE June 2018, Balfour Beatty have been stone-built heritage. Paul Everett and work of the organisation exhibiting for the first time in Europe. the main contractors of the North is a Building Stone Scientist at founded in his honour in seeking to the Victorian School Room, both history. Join the Canal Cultural Lovingly preserved by Yang Pei Ming offering children’s activities. You will Heritage Officer from Keep Scotland Bridge Refurbishment project. As BGS Scotland. He researches the protect and enhance the amenity of the Shanghai Propaganda Poster well as discussing the structure’s provenance of historic masonry, of the City of Edinburgh. Terry need bikes in good working order Beautiful on a 2-hour guided walk Art Centre, this rare collection and suitable clothes for the weather. to explore the social and industrial comprehensive history, the Balfour conducts building stone surveys, Levinthal is the Director of the presents an intimate window into Beatty site management team will quarry assessments and provides Cockburn Association. Keep an eye out for more details history of Edinburgh’s Union Canal, everyday Chinese life in the 1950’s on https://edinburghfamilyrides. opened in 1822, as a 32 mile-long demonstrate some of the innovative stone-matching advice for building and 1960’s. We are delighted to Fri 27th 19:00 – 20:00 blogspot.com. uninterrupted ‘contour canal’ from technologies being used on the conservation. offer Doors Open Days participants Crichton Wood Edinburgh Quay in the heart of the project, including some ‘behind the a special curator’s introduction to the Sat 16:30 Thur 26th 12:00 – 12:45 Scots Baronial meets the capital to the Falkirk Wheel. hoarding’ insights, 3D digital scanning exhibition and a contextual talk on Weeds Galore! and 360° photography. Sean O’Reilly New York Five Advance booking essential via life in revolutionary China. Meet at the Cockburn Association, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ Edinburgh’s place in the origins Architect Crichton Wood will Trunk’s Close, 55 High Street, Tue 24th 19:00 – 20:00 of global conservation practice Sat 10:00 – 12:00 unlocking-the-union-canal- discuss the key concepts of Scots EH1 1SR John Lowrey Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park tickets-64660691870 Dr Sean O’Reilly, Director of baronial architecture used in the Foraging in the urban landscape Edinburgh’s Architectural Walking Tour The Institute of Historic Building work of American Architect and or your back yard. Find out which Sat and Sun 10:30 and 14:30 Global Connections. 26b Gilmerton Dykes Street, Conservation will discuss how theorist, Louis Kahn, including common weeds are both food and Edinburgh’s Global Connections EH17 7QN John Lowrey, Senior Lecturer approaches to conservation vary on expressive relationships between medicine. Learn how to incorporate on foot in Architectural History at the a global scale and the influence of form and function, and geometric Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park is one weeds into delicious nutritious From our European neighbours to University of Edinburgh, will discuss Edinburgh in the global conservation plan transformations. Wood will of Edinburgh’s finest green spaces recipes. So, are weeds friend or far-flung corners of the world, our the international influences on movement. also discuss the impact of Kahn’s use and twice the size of Princes Street foe? You will have a whole new capital city has always looked beyond Edinburgh’s architecture. of Baronial architecture on other Gardens. Organised by the Friends perspective after this informative tour its borders for inspiration, influence American architects of the 20th group, which is developing a local with Medical Herbalist Julia Cook.