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Doors Open Days 2018 in Clackmannanshire Doors Open Days 2018 in Clackmannanshire 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 Scotland 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. Tullibody 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, Sauchie 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 Alloa, refer to the key next to each entry. Visitors enter the Clackmannan 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 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 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) Alloa Tower 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.
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