NEWS & POSTS
Summary of Place Making Meeting
A Sense of Place Summary of meeting 26th April 2018
For other resources including presentations see Sense of Place page
Edinburgh Council Report on Placemaking – including results of Queensferry Pilot
Sense of Place – Thursday 26th April @ 7.30pm (immediately after AGM)
Annual General Meeting – Thursday 26th April @ 7.00pm
Scotland’s Suffragettes
Next talk – Defending the Forth 1296-1660. Thursday 15th March
Fascinating talk on Shale Mining & the Dalmeny Shale Company
Many thanks to Robin Chesters for his talk. There is clearly a lot of local interest in this topic. Lots of more information on the website of the Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry
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Fascinating to understand the extent of the mine workings in Queensferry and underneath the Forth
Thursday 1st February: Scotland’s Pilgrim Journeys
Dr Donald Smith, Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre will give a talk on pilgrim routes crossing the Forth. For more information on the Scottish Storytelling Centre click here.
See also Queensferry Pilgrim’s Cross
Great talk from Mark Moran on “Brewing in Queensferry Past and Present” – free samples were pretty good too!
