Doors Open Days 2018 in

29th & 30th September

Year of Young People Doors Open Days 2018 In Clackmannanshire

Doors Open Days is celebrated in September Highlights and new this year are the throughout as part of the Council of Europe former Devon Colliery Beam Engine European Heritage Days. People can visit free of House, returning to the programme charge places of cultural and historic interest which after an absence of many years; are not normally open to the public. Community Garden, which is encouraging people to grow their The event aims to encourage everyone to appreciate own food and eat more healthily; the and help to preserve their built heritage. Doors Open fascinating Serf, and Silver - A Circular Place-Name Days is promoted nationally by The Scottish Civic Trust Walk, where you can find out about the origin of names with part sponsorship from Historic in the county; and the intriguing and remarkable ruins of Environment Scotland. Kennetpans Distillery and Warehouse, once the cradle of Some of the properties taking part the Scottish whisky industry. will be celebrating the Year of Young Please note that in some buildings only the ground floor People with activities and exhibitions. is accessible to people with mobility difficulties. Please There will be guided tours of , refer to the key next to each entry. Visitors enter the and Sauchie Towers; buildings at their own risk. Neither Clackmannanshire Clackmannan Heritage Walks and a Council nor any participating building owners are new Walk around Tullibody, exploring responsible for any accidents or damage incurred. the fascinating story of the village. St Mungo’s Parish Church in Alloa continues to celebrate its Bicentenary; Key to abbreviations the other churches taking part are all well worth a visit to discover their stories and splendid P Parking nearby interiors. Popular destinations such as Alloa Fire Station, D Property accessible to visitors with disabilities The Coach House Theatre, Alva Ice House and the Johnstone Mausoleum, Dollar Museum and Tullibody PD Property partly accessible to visitors with disabilities Heritage Centre will also welcome people again. T Toilets TD Toilet accessible to visitors with disabilities R Refreshments available 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 29th September 10.30 - 11.30 and 2.00 - 3.00 Saturday 29th September 10.30 - 3.30 Sunday 30th September 2.00 - 3.00 Sunday 30th 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 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 (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 will celebrate 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 29th September 1.30 - 4.00 Saturday 29th September 11.00 - 3.00 Guided tours Sunday 30th September 12.30 - 3.00 Guided tours P PD TD R P D TD 5 The Coach House Theatre (1900) 6 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 Church of Scotland 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 29th September 12.00 - 4.00 Lottery Fund and many other supporters. Sunday 30th September 12.00 - 4.00

Saturday 29th September 10.00 - 3.00 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 PD T R P PD TD Alva Old Kirkyard & Johnstone Mausoleum 8 (1790) 7 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 29th September 12.00 - 4.00 part of the Historic Kirkyards Trail Sunday 30th 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 29th September people with mobility difficulties. Sturdy footwear and Sunday 30th 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) 10 High Street, Clackmannan FK10 4JG 9 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 built century date. The Coronation window, the only one in the in 1592. There will be two walks around this fascinating county, is in the east wall of the gallery. Her Majesty the historic town, the Tower Walk and the Town Walk, led by Queen visited on 9th members of the Heritage Group. The walks will look at July 1997 to see the the Stone of Mannan, the Mercat Cross, the remains of window. the Tolbooth, Clackmannan Tower and other important The kirkyard has buildings and sites which help to tell the story of the town some late 17th and from which the county takes its name. early 18th century Sunday 30th September trade gravestones and the Bruce family Guided Walks at 1.30 and 3.00 memorials. The guided walks will start from the Town Hall. They will Saturday 29th September 9.30 - 5.00 be partly suitable for people with mobility difficulties. Outdoor clothing and sensible footwear are essential, Home-made soup and sandwiches available especially in case of bad weather. from 12.00 - 2.00. Booking is advised; to book, please call Tea and coffee available at other times. Clackmannan Development Trust 01259 219473 or Sunday 30th September 2.00 - 4.00 email:[email protected] Clackmannan Town Hall will be open and light P PD TD R refreshments will be available from 1.00.

P TD R 11 Clackmannan Tower (14th - 15th centuries) Dollar High Street, Clackmannan FK10 4JG Dollar Museum (early 19th century) 12 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 is celebrating its 30th anniversary this in the mansion until her death in year. It has created and shown about 150 temporary 1791. exhibitions since it opened in 1988 and the new The tower has been in the exhibitions for 2018 are as follows: guardianship of the State since The Dollar Community and the Great War the 1950s and is managed on its This exhibition marks the end of the First World War and behalf by Historic Environment reflects on the stories of local men and women who Scotland, which has undertaken extensive repairs. Further served in the forces, as well as examining what life was improvements have been carried out recently as part of like for those who stayed at home in Dollar, supporting the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative programme. New the war effort. There are original examples of ‘comforts’ internal barriers have improved safety for visitors, the knitted for the troops and modern replicas for handling, scaffolded staircase has been removed and new lighting as well as a wide range of objects loaned by individuals has been installed this year. and the Museums of the Argyll and Sutherland Sunday 30th September Highlanders and the Black Watch.

Visits by pre-booked guided tour only at 9.30, 10.00, 10.30, The Bicentenary of Dollar Academy 11.00, 11.30, 12.00, 1.15, 1.45, 2.15, 2.45, 3.15 and 3.45. Each Dollar Academy was founded in 1818, using a bequest tour will last 45 minutes. Visitors will be admitted only if from John McNabb, a local boy who made a fortune at they have booked and are on the list. To book, please call sea and left half of it to Dollar Kirk Session ‘for a charity Historic Environment Scotland 0131 550 7603 or email or school’. The driving forces behind the creation of [email protected] by no later than 12 noon on Friday the school were the Rev Andrew Mylne, its first Rector; 28th September. Craufurd Tait of Harviestoun; and its architect, William Visitors should note that this is not suitable for people with Playfair, who designed a remarkable building which mobility difficulties. Sturdy footwear and outdoor clothing are provided both day and boarding, free or very cheap essential, as access is via a field, a spiral staircase and uneven education for all local children of both sexes, long before floors and part of the tour is outdoors. There are some low lintels school attendance was universal. and ceilings and hard hats may be worn; we will provide hats for adults, but children may wish to bring cycle helmets with them. Saturday 29th September 11.00 -1.00 and 2.00 - 4.30 Children under 16 must be supervised. Sunday 30th September 2.00 - 4.30

P P PD TD (c1415-20) 14 near Fishcross FK10 3AN NEW 13 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, but flooding c1415-20. The Schaws were an influential family in forced it to close in 1854. It was reopened in 1879 by medieval Scotland. Alloa 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 8 million 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 29th September 10.00 - 5.00 planning to raise funds to complete the excavation of the site, finish the restoration of Sauchie Tower, conserve Guides the ruins of Sauchie House and reshape the surrounding Exhibition about early mining in Clackmannanshire. landscape. Displays about the work of the Scottish SPCA. Saturday 29th September 10.00 - 5.00 Please note that there is access only to the ground floor Guided tours and that access to the building is challenging for people with mobility difficulties. Visitors should note that this is not suitable for people with mobility difficulties. P P Kennetpans Sauchie

NEW 15 Kennetpans Distillery and Warehouse Sauchie and Parish Church 16 Kennetpans, Clackmannan FK10 4BW (1842, 1889, 1900) Main Street, Sauchie FK10 3JX The picturesque ruin of Kennetpans Distillery was the The church was built birthplace of the Scottish whisky as a chapel of ease industry. Founded in the early 18th in 1842. The design century by John and James Stein, consists of a plain by the 1730s it was the largest nave with a tall, square whisky distillery in Scotland. The eastern tower of four surviving buildings were probably stages, including a built in the 1770s and were part of belfry. The bell was a much larger complex and harbour. Kilbagie Distillery was installed in 1846 and established nearby by James Stein and by 1788 the two was rung in the traditional manner until recently, but is distilleries were very successful, but legislation to curb the now operated by pushing an electric switch. massive export of whisky to England led to bankruptcy Improvements were made in about 1889, including the and closure. Kennetpans reopened and production two west windows, with stained glass representing Faith, resumed in 1795, but it closed again in 1825. It was never Hope and Charity and the , Holy Spirit and Lamb of modernised for grain whisky production and is therefore God. The north and south windows include symbols of the most complete survivor of its type. the Four Evangelists and were installed between 1929 The distillery was a project in the Inner Forth Landscape -1946. Initiative programme, partly funded by Historic The furnishings include a finely carved Communion table Environment Scotland; it has been investigated, cleared presented in 1932; the pulpit, moved to its present side of vegetation and a full survey carried out in advance position in 1972; an octagonal baptismal font donated in of conservation work. The owners are keen to celebrate 1948 and a Hammond organ, probably the third organ and raise awareness of its national importance and have in the church. The church united with Coalsnaughton established a trust to raise funds to save it for future Parish Church in 1994 and its baptismal font, a gift from generations. the Sunday School in 1943, and Communion table were Sunday 30th September moved here. There are two adjacent halls, one built in 1900 and the other in 1956/7. Visits will be by pre-booked guided tour only at 1.00, 2.30 and 4.00. Each tour will last about 1.5 hours. Visitors will be allowed Saturday 29th September 11.00 - 3.00 to take part only if they have booked and are on the list. To book, Sunday 30th September 1.00 - 3.00 please call 07974 917002 or email [email protected] by no later than 12 noon on Saturday 29th September. There will be a display of the architectural drawings for Visitors should note that this is not suitable for people with the church and, for the Year of Young People, a display by mobility difficulties. Sensible footwear and outdoor clothing are the Young Church Community Club. The church will be essential, as the tour will be outdoors. Children under 16 must be decorated for the Harvest Thanksgiving. supervised. DOGS ARE NOT ALLOWED. On Saturday only there will be a table top sale. There will be no internal access to the ruins of the distillery itself, for health and safety reasons, but there will be access to the P PD TD R warehousing and garden area beyond it.

P Tillicoultry Parish Church (1827-29) 18 Dollar Road, Tillicoultry FK13 6PD NEW 17 Serf, Sauchie and Silver - a Circular This striking and unusual church was designed by William Place-Name Walk Stirling to replace its predecessor, built in 1773 on a site a The Woolpack, 1-3, Glassford Square, Tillicoultry little to the east. Much FK13 6AU of the stone from the earlier structure What is a place-name walk? It’s was probably used to a walk through the past and build the new church. present, through landscape and language, an attempt to see the Built in neo- modern environment through Perpendicular style, the eyes of the people who gave the church features it the names which we still use buttresses to the sides today. These names are also guides of each bay which to the languages of the past: in end in impressively tall, pointed finials. Stirling’s original Clackmannanshire, these are mainly British/Pictish, Gaelic design may have included a spire or tower, but it was and Scots and together they span about 1,500 years, with never built. some names being even older. The octagonal bellcote over the The walk will begin and end at The Woolpack Inn in north entrance houses a bell cast Tillicoultry. It will include part of the town itself, passing in Rotterdam in 1670 by Cornelius Sterling Mills, the Scottish SPCA National Wildlife Rescue Ouderogge; this was removed from Centre and the Devon Colliery Beam Engine House, on the medieval church which stood to Sauchie Tower, down to Alva, crossing the River Devon further north on Kirk Hill, refitted again, through the remains of the Alva House estate and in its 18th century successor then back to Tillicoultry. The route will, wherever possible, use moved again to its present location. footpaths and avoid main roads. Devon Colliery Beam A horseshoe-shaped gallery was Engine House, Sauchie Tower and Alva Ice House will all replaced in 1920 by a single gallery. The fine, three-light be open and it will be possible to have brief visits to them. stained glass window of 1924 by Douglas Strachan was An explanatory leaflet will be given to all participants. installed in memory of the Rev Joseph Conn.

Saturday 29th September The kirkyard contains several interesting gravestones, many of which were restored as part of the Historic The walk begins at 10.00 Kirkyards Trail project of the Ochils Landscape Partnership The walk will last about 3.5 hours. Participants must book in programme. They shed light on the inhabitants of advance and the maximum number is 25. To book, please call Tillicoultry as it developed into an industrial town, with 07765 053879 or email [email protected] by no many textile mills. later than 12 noon on Friday 28th September. Saturday 29th September 2.00 - 4.00 Participants should note that this is only partly suitable for Sunday 30th September 2.00 - 4.00 wheelchair users and involves a long walk. Sensible footwear and outdoor clothing are essential. There will an exhibition about the church and local The Woolpack Inn will be open for refreshments after the walk; history. participants may also wish to bring a packed lunch with them. P PD TD R P Tullibody Tullibody Community Garden 20 NEW Carseview, Tullibody FK10 2SR 19 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 The garden also engages with the local community in ceiling. The furnishings - plain pews other ways; it has established links with HMP Glenochil, and round stone font - are entirely where the prison garden workers spent the winter contemporary with the building, as renovating donated tools to be used in the community are the three stained glass windows, garden. It has taken the ‘growing’ message into homes which were designed by Stephen and local schools; it received funding for some orchard Adam & Son of Glasgow. The fine trees which have now been planted at four local primary west window was restored a few schools and a family centre and will be cared for by years ago. On an aisle column, garden volunteers. Art students at the local secondary window jamb and door lintel are school took part in a competition to design a logo for carved phrases and beatitudes. the garden and it has also distributed ‘grow your own potatoes’ packs, so that people can start growing them in A wrought iron stand near the south their own gardens. door holds a bell, dated 1838, which used to hang in the bellcote of the Saturday 29th September 11.00 - 3.00 Old Kirk. Sunday 30th September 11.00 - 3.00

Saturday 29th September 12.00 - 4.00 Food cooking demonstration and food tasters Sunday 30th September 2.00 - 4.00 Local produce to buy after the harvest - jars of jams, pickles and chutneys Guided tours Sign up for cookery courses P PD TD Jam jar decorating Bug Hunts for the kids Find out about Climate Change Initiatives

P D TD 21 Tullibody Heritage Centre Walk around Tullibody 22 NEW Abercromby Place, Tullibody FK10 2RS Tullibody Heritage Centre, Abercromby Place, Tullibody FK10 2RS Tullibody is an ancient parish linked to Cambuskenneth Abbey. A church was founded in 1149, and parts of Tullibody is an ancient settlement with a fascinating Tullibody Old Kirk are probably of that date, though a story. There is evidence of occupation nearby in the date stone records its restoration in 1539. It was damaged Mesolithic period and, much later, the parish was linked by the French army of Mary of Guise twenty years later. to Cambuskenneth Abbey. A church was founded in It was restored again, with the addition of a bellcote, in 1149 and the village grew up beside it, though the 1760 by George Abercromby and turned into the family Abercromby family of Tullibody House moved it further mausoleum. In 1833 it became a chapel of ease, but it was south c1800. Its new focus was around Main Street and abandoned as unsafe in 1904 and unroofed in 1916. Two the Tron Tree. The building of the tannery in the mid-19th phases of restoration work have been completed. century brought more people to live in the village and the creation of the short-lived Glenochil Colliery in the 1950s The Heritage Centre is run by Tullibody History Group and led to a major expansion to accommodate the large influx tells the story of the village and neighbouring Cambus. of miners from Tullibody grew around the medieval church, but in c1800 Lanarkshire. Since the Abercromby family of Tullibody House moved it. The then there has focus of the new village was around Main Street and the been the loss of Tron Tree. It expanded in the 1950s, when new housing some industries was built for a large influx of miners from Lanarkshire, and more who came to work in Glenochil Colliery. large housing The displays include a developments. doll’s house modelled on This walk will Tullibody House; a replica explore the Victorian schoolroom and remarkable story of Tullibody and the many changes a 1940s style kitchen; an which it has faced, taking in the impressive War Memorial illustrated genealogy of Garden, the remains of the old village, the Old Kirk and its the Abercromby family; environs, the Delph Pond and the site of the tannery. stories about significant local people, such as the Saturday 29th September remarkable botanist and geologist Robert Dick, as Guided walk at 2.00 well as William Burns Paterson, who founded what is now The walk will begin and end at Tullibody Heritage Centre and Alabama State University. will last about two hours. It will be for a maximum of 20 people and must be booked. To book, please call 01259 723376 or email Saturday 29th September 2.00 - 4.00 [email protected]. Sunday 30th September 1.00 - 4.00 Visitors should note that this is not suitable for people with A leaflet enabling visitors to do a self-guided tour around mobility difficulties. Sensible footwear and outdoor clothing the Old Kirk (exterior only) and kirkyard is available from are essential, as the walk is entirely outdoors. Children under 16 the Heritage Centre. must be supervised. There will be an opportunity at the end of the walk to visit P D TD R Tullibody Heritage Centre.

P TD 1 Alloa Fire Station 8 Old Kirkyard and the Johnstone Mausoleum 15 Kennetpans Distillery and Warehouse (New)

2 Alloa Ludgate Church 9 Clackmannan Heritage Walks 16 Sauchie & Coalsnaughton Parish Church

3 St John’s Episcopal Church 10 Clackmannan Parish Church 17 Serf, Sauchie and Silver Circular Walk (New)

4 St Mungo’s Parish Church 11 Clackmannan Tower 18 Tillicoultry Parish Church

5 The Coach House Theatre 12 Dollar Museum 19 St Serf’s Church

6 Alloa Tower 13 Devon Colliery Beam Engine House (New) 20 Tullibody Community Garden (New)

7 Alva Ice House 14 Sauchie Tower 21 Tullibody Heritage Centre 22 Walk around Tullibody (New)

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15 Town Centre Properties Doors Open Days in Clackmannanshire is coordinated by Clackmannanshire Heritage Trust, with support from Clackmannanshire Council. We would like to thank the many people and organisations who have helped to make the Doors Open Days 2018 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