Archaeology & Heritage
Facilitator(s): | Val Harling |
Meets: | Usually 4th Thursday Monthly but may vary |
Venue: | Various |
Experience Required?: | None |
Cost: | Coach if used, admission to places of interest, refreshments & lunch. Also hotel costs for extended outings. |
The aim of this group is to visit places of interest within a 70-mile radius of the Scottish Borders, usually by coach. Most places, even the most obscure, will come under the heading of Heritage. Also to meet up with old and new friends; so long as there is a coffee stop, we are happy.
There is also an annual "away" excursion to a location in Great Britain for a number of days each spring. In the past we have visited Liverpool, North Wales, Northern Ireland, Staffordshire Potteries and Lincolnshire.
If you are interested in joining this group, please email the Facilitator by using the Blue Bird logo on this page.
2024 Programme
Thursday 29 February. A Talk by Mark Nicol at Old Gala House “Mysterious Galashiels Drawbridge”
Thursday 28 March The Central Gurdwara (Sikh Temple) a.m. The Hindu Temple of Scotland p.m. Glasgow
Thursday to Monday 25-28 April Sheffield (NT) under the auspices of Tailored Travel
Thursday 23 May. “Modernism in the Borders”
Thursday 4 July. Billy Shiel’s Puffin cruise Seahouses
Thursday 25 July. Torness Nuclear Power Station Dunbar
Thursday 22 August “Our Heritage from Slavery” Glasgow
Thursday 26 September Tour of The Steading, Tim Stead’s home in Blainslie (to be confirmed)
Thursday 24 October Cragside, NT Morpeth
November (date to be confirmed) Poinsettia Walk, Pentland Plants Garden Centre, Loanhead
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