THE NEW TOWN organised by thecockburnassociation DISCOVER EDINBURGH HIDDEN DOORS OPEN TREASURES DAY 2012 SAT 22 & SUN 23 SEPTEMBER 121 Venues Across the Capital. 1 Fantastic Weekend for All. JOIN US in celebrating Edinburgh’s outstanding architecture, culture and heritage SEE what’s in your area! SOUTH QUEENSFERRY & DALMENY p4 EXPLORE TALK SERIES 2012 your architectural 1PM AT RCAHMS, 16 BERNARD TERRACE CRAMOND p5 and cultural gems! Booking advised via [email protected] or 0131 662 1456 KIRKNEWTON & RATHO p5 The Cockburn Association is delighted to bring you 18 SEP Smoke, Gas and Fizz: The Industry of Edinburgh NEW another Edinburgh Doors Open Day, the 22nd, a MIRIAM McDONALD OF RCAHMS GOGAR & RICCARTON p6 festival that celebrates the city’s rich architectural and cultural heritage. This year breaks the record again with 19 SEP Calton Hill: Local Icon or National Ambition? CURRIE & BALERNO p7 121 venues opening their doors to let you in. KIRSTEN CARTER Our city is full of great buildings and works of art. By 20 SEP Hidden Gardens in Edinburgh MURRAYFIELD & CORSTORPHINE p7 seeking out hidden treasures, both old and new, we JEAN BAREHAM OF GREENYONDER TOURS introduce you to some fascinating places and activities. OLD TOWN p8 We can take you from a 15th century tower to modern 21 SEP Unearthing the Hidden Treasures of Edinburgh’s Historic Graveyards !"#$%&'#&("')*$'"')+",(-./0"'!1%-+)2#%'-&%3#)"'2'!"#$) DR SUSAN BUCKHAM SOUTHSIDE p12 is taking place and from the bowels of the Earth to the far reaches of the Universe. 6PM AT RIDDLE’S COURT 322 LAWNMARKET NEW TOWN p15 4,") &$') 3"2&) &%5') *') 6"'2'-&) !) 6",+"!55') ,7) 7"'') Booking advised via [email protected] or 0131 220 1232 lunchtime and evening talks in the week running up to INVERLEITH p16 Doors Open Day. These will reveal the secrets behind 18 SEP Edinburgh’s ‘Colony Housing’ and the Victorian Townscape well-known places or draw attention to treasures PROFESSOR RICHARD RODGER WEST END scattered across Edinburgh that you may never have p17 noticed and can explore over the weekend. 19 SEP 20th Century MOdernIsm In Edinburgh’s SuburbIa; The Work of Morris and Steedman EAST END & BROUGHTON p19 Our thanks go to the venues, staff and volunteers who SIMON GREEN unlock the doors, steward the buildings, gardens and 20 SEP Art for All: The Edinburgh Murals of Phoebe Traquair ABBEYHILL p22 cemeteries and organise activities, making Edinburgh Doors Open Day the tremendously popular event that ELIZABETH CUMMING it is. We also thank those who sponsor the event, it is LAURISTON & TOLLCROSS p22 21 SEP The Ales, The Animals and The Arts: The History of Summerhall a constant challenge to raise funds and we are grateful ANDREW WRIGHT OBE for the generosity of individuals and organisations that MERCHISTON & MORNINGSIDE p24 help meet the costs. Do share with us where you go and what Hidden **PLEASE NOTE** GORGIE & SLATEFORD p24 Treasures you discover. Post your pictures on our St Bernard’s Mineral Well and the Old CIty ADMISSION Facebook page or keep in contact over the weekend Observatory are not open due to conservation works TO BUILDINGS BLACKFORD p25 on Twitter with #edDOD2012. Admission to all buildings is FREE. Visitors KEY TO SYMBOLS DUDDINGSTON TO LIBERTON p26 HAVE A GREAT TIME! entering buildings do so at their own risk; Accessible by Innertube Limited Wheelchair Access L neither the organisers nor participants are PORTOBELLO p27 responsible for any accidents or damages Keep in touch via our website for updates Toilet Facilities WC Assisted Wheelchair Access A incurred. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this programme, the LEITH to the programme and the latest news on WC p28 Disabled Toilet Facilities Free Parking P Cockburn Association is not responsible if venues: www.cockburnassociation.org.uk participating buildings alter their opening NEWHAVEN p30 Email: [email protected] Full Wheelchair Access Refreshments times or fail to open. Please be aware that Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/ some buildings will attract large numbers of MUIRHOUSE, GRANTON & TRINITY p30 Cockburn-Association/127366580612666 visitors and you may have to queue. Write to us at: The Cockburn Association, Please ensure that you check opening times Trunk’s Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR. Parking may be limited; www.doorsopendays.org.uk please use public transport where possible. carefully, as arrival outwith these times will Twitter: @theCockburn result in entry being refused. Cover Illustration: Kelly Stewart www.skellydesigns.com 1 MAP OF THE NEW TOWN EDINBURGH 121 GREAT LOCATIONS AROUND THE CITY Not to Scale 1 Scotstoun House 44 University of Edinburgh Main Library 86 St Michael and All Saints’ Church 116 45 Summerhall 1 119 121 115 2 !e Priory Church of St Mary of Mount Carmel 87 King’s !eatre 5 6 108 110 120 46 !e Queen’s Hall 2 117 111 3 WT Architecture, Gote Lane Studio 88 Meadows Croquet Club 112 Royal Commission on the Ancient and 118 109 4 Dalmeny Kirk 47 89 Re-Union Canal Boats 3 Historical Monuments of Scotland 5 Cramond Kirk 90 Edinburgh Steiner School Kindergarten 56 48 Laudate House, German speaking congregation 4 113 6 !e Maltings 49 Aberdeen Asset Management 91 Royal Edinburgh Community Gardens 114 7 !e Linburn Centre 50 Assembly Rooms 92 Hermitage House 81 8 Edinburgh International Climbing Arena 51 ACE IT Computer Training 93 Tynecastle High School 106 9 Gogar Cabinet Works 52 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 94 Water of Leith Visitor Centre 10 Gogarbank Walled Garden 53 Edinburgh Photographic Society 95 King’s Buildings 17 16 11 Suntrap Garden & Millbuies House 54 Lorn Macneal Architects 96 British Geological Survey 107 20 12 Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus 55 !e Danish Cultural Institute 97 Royal Observatory Edinburgh 9 19 93 13 Eco House Herbarium & Library Building 98 Duddingston Kirk 98 56 18 14 Balerno Parish Church & St Joseph’s Centre – Royal Botanic Garden 99 !omson’s Tower 99 57 Scottish Arts Club 15 Harmeny School 100 !e Robin Chapel CRAIGMILLAR 90 58 B+B Edinburgh SIGHTHILL 100 16 McNeil House 101 Wauchope Mausoleum 8 91 101 59 Trades Maiden Hospital 17 Corstorphine Hill Tower 102 Inch House 10 60 St Mary’s Cathedral Song School 11 94 102 18 !e Dower House 103 Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine 97 61 Dean Cemetery 92 96 95 103 19 Corstorphine Old Parish Church 104 Mortonhall Crematorium 62 Institut Francais d’Ecosse 7 105 20 Craigsbank Parish Church 105 Liberton Tower 63 Edinburgh Society of Musicians 12 21 Riddle’s Court 106 St Mark’s Episcopal Church 64 Stewart’s Melville College 22 !e Scottish Genealogy Society 107 18 East$eld 65 St Mark’s Unitarian Church 13 14 15 23 City Chambers 108 Leith !eatre 104 66 Parish Church of St Cuthbert 24 Stills 109 Trinity House 67 Usher Hall 56 25 Tron Kirk 110 Lamb’s House STOCKBRIDG 68 Traverse !eatre MAP OF 26 John Knox House 111 Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club 69 Filmhouse 27 Digital Gra"ti @ Schop Institute 112 Leith Town Hall and Sheri# Court CENTRAL 70 General Register House and New Register House 80 28 St Cecilia’s Hall Museum of Musical Instruments 113 Raimes Clark Head O"ce EDINBURGH 71 St Andrew’s House Not to Scale 29 Acheson House Garden 114 !e Victorian Schoolroom 79 72 Burns Monument 30 Old Moray House 115 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop 78 73 Ingleby Gallery 31 Edinburgh Sheri# Court 116 Alien Rock 76 114 74 !e Steel House 32 Old College, University of Edinburgh 117 Newhaven Station 75 54 53 75 Edinburgh Printmakers 77 74 81 33 Talbot Rice Gallery 118 Muirhouse St Andrews Parish Church E & 76 Lyon and Turnbull 34 Scottish Poetry Library 119 National Museums Collection Centre 55 77 Edinburgh Bahá’í Centre 35 !e Scottish Parliament 120 Wardie Primary School Mans$eld Traquair Centre and O"ces 52 78 I 36 ICMS & ECCI 121 St Columba’s Hospice Education Centre 64 of the SCVO NVERL 61 37 Anatomy Museum & Lecture !eatre The New Town 70 71 79 Central Depot, Lothian Buses plc FURTHER INFORMATION Whilst every 50 49 72 !"#$%&'()&*!!+&,(-!&%#&!+).$!&%'!&(//.$(/0& 63 62 51 73 38 !e Reid Concert Hall Museum 80 1 West Annandale Street of each building’s location – the positions 35 of the numbers are intended as a general 34 39 Teviot Row House 81 Holyrood Abbey Church of Scotland 29 guide only. For those with access to the 58 30 The Old Town 24 26 40 Dovecot Studios 82 George Heriot’s School internet, each participating building has EI also been plotted using Google Maps. These 66 23 27 41 Surgeons’ Hall Museum 83 Museum of Fire are fully printable and can be accessed 59 25 57 21 TH 60 from our website by logging onto: www. 28 42 Festival !eatre 84 Penthouse at the Point Hotel Conference Centre 65 22 32 cockburnassociation.org.uk/doorsopenday 31 33 40 Buccleuch and Greyfriars Free Church of Alternatively, you may wish to consult 68 43 85 Castles with Crichton Scotland & Chapel of Ease Graveyard a street map of Edinburgh. 69 67 36 42 41 84 85 83 82 37 39 get around get active 86 38 43 why not use the Edinburgh City Cycleways Innertube? 89 44 To see the full Innertube map and all eleven Edinburgh City Cycleway routes... 2 visit: www.thebikestation.org.uk/innertube-map 3 87 88 46 47 Look out for this logo for venues accessible via the Edinburgh City Cycleways Innertube 48 45 Award-winning architects WT $!2) 0''-) %.'-&%3'.) @(2&) 0'$%-.) impaired members to navigate SOUTH QUEENSFERRY & DALMENY 2. THE PRIORY Architecture’s newly renovated the Maltings and the exhibition without assistance.