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Interesting news from around Scotland
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Whisky and jazz den planned beneath a Glasgow landmark
Plans have gone in to turn the basement of 16 Robertson Street into a whisky and jazz venue. The A-listed building on the corner of the Broomielaw was the headquarters of the Clyde Navigation Trust, the body that ran everything on the river when Glasgow was one of the great ports of the world, and its basement has never been open to the public. The building itself is worth a moment. Designed by Sir John James Burnet, built in two stages between 1883 and 1908, with sculpture by Albert Hodge including Neptune riding a chariot pulled by seahorses on the roofline. There is a very good carved bull hidden on the facade, easily missed. The Trust wanted a headquarters to rival the City Chambers, and more or less got one. Glasgow Arts Centre Limited is behind the proposal, working with building owner Peel Waters. The venue would host live music and cultural events alongside locally sourced food and drink, with spirits from producers including the Clydeside Distillery just along the river. If approved, it would sit rather well with the wider investment happening along Glasgow's waterfront. No timeline yet.
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Kelso Abbey open daily again after five years
Kelso Abbey is open daily again, 9.30am to 5pm, for the first time in five years. First Minister John Swinney did the honours at the official reopening on 24 July, timed to coincide with the Border Union Show, and Historic Environment Scotland has now finished the masonry consolidation, netting and re-pointing that kept the gates shut. The abbey was one of Scotland's largest and wealthiest religious houses. King David I invited Benedictine monks from Tiron in northern France to settle at Selkirk, and by 1128 they had moved to Kelso, across the Tweed from David's new castle at Roxburgh. In 1460 the young James III was crowned here after his father died at the siege of that same castle. Not much of the building survives, mostly the west tower, but what does is among the most impressive medieval stonework in the country. Attention now shifts to 2028 and the 900th anniversary of the monks arriving. The Kelso 900 Group formed earlier this year to plan the celebrations, and further masonry inspections may happen before then. Entry is free.
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A whole day of Highland cattle at Pollok Park
The West of Scotland Highland Cattle Club holds its annual show at Pollok Country Park on Saturday 22 August, at the Riverside field next to the Covid Memorial path. Spectators are welcome from 11am and it is free to watch. Pollok's own fold is the draw for most visitors. The park's award-winning herd lives across 361 acres on the south side of Glasgow, the only designated country park inside a UK city, and this spring produced more than twenty calves. Dozens of people turned out just to look at the first three newborns back in March. The council also runs a programme of free events at the fold through to 15 October. Field talks meet at the dog monument on Pollok Avenue, no booking needed, and there are wash days at the cattle yard next to the Children's Fairy Garden, where you can help groom the animals before their show outings. Those fill up fast. The Burrell Collection sits in the middle of the park too, if the weather turns.
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Kirkwall rides its marches on Sunday
On Sunday 9 August, horses, ponies, carriages and their riders take over the streets of Kirkwall to carry a standard around the old boundary of the town. The Riding of the Marches happens every year on the second Sunday of August, and the roads through Kirkwall and St Ola close for it. The riders gather in front of St Magnus Cathedral, emerging from Tankerness Lane onto Broad Street. After a short speech, the standard passes to this year's bearer and the procession sets off towards the Pierhead, hooves clattering on the old flagstones. One of the best places to stand later in the route is Scapa beach, where the riders toast before taking their horses into the water, crashing through the surf of Scapa Flow. Riding the boundaries is an old habit here. In 1706, ten burgesses who failed to turn up were fined £10 apiece. The event lapsed for long stretches and was revived in 1986 to mark 500 years since Kirkwall became a Royal Burgh. It caps a busy week in the islands, coming the day after the Orkney County Show at Bignold Park.
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Two thousand years of history at Fort George this weekend
Celebration of the Centuries returns to Fort George on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 August. It is Historic Scotland's largest re-enactment event, and the timeline on show runs from the Roman legions through the medieval period and the wars of independence to the Napoleonic era and beyond. The headline act this year is a WW1 equestrian stunt show, telling the story of the horses that served in the Great War through riding displays and stunts. There are also parades of historical characters, living history camps, live music, and guided tours of the fortress itself, including the Grand Magazine, where thousands of barrels of gunpowder were once stored. Kids can fight alongside Robert the Bruce in the Medieval Kids Army, which is exactly what it sounds like. The 1940s zone has big band performances. Fort George is worth the trip on any weekend, mind. Built between 1747 and 1769 after Culloden, it was the biggest construction job the Highlands had ever seen and never fired a shot in anger. It sits on a spit jutting into the Moray Firth about eleven miles from Inverness, and dolphins pass close in on the right tide.
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