I am also happy to be participating with the Take A Break cafe in the Doorway Trail, a new way to connect arts with local businesses in #Alloa
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Looking forward to the #Clackmannanshire Open Studios event over the coming two weekends.
At 2pm on each Saturday and Sunday I will be giving a talk entitled "Her Dark Materials", about painting materials. That's at my studio in Line Tree House, #Alloa - all welcome.
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Leishman missed the Westminster Hall debate on October 15 because he was being elected chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Golf.Brian Leishman has been the most outspoken Scottish Labour MPA Scottish Labour MP has been blasted for missing a debate on the Scottish economy for a golf meeting.Brian Leishman missed the Westminster Hall debate on October 15 because he was being elected chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Golf.The Alloa and Grangemouth MP had been urging the UK Government to take over the oil refinery in his constituency which is set to
I found this fascinating map of the coal mines around #Stirling #Bannockburn and #Alloa on the end papers of a book which was privately printed for Alloa Coal Company in 1944.
So much #IndustrialHistory has simply been erased, so it is good to have this context.
November 1st was a date of significant amenity losses in central Scotland.
#OTD in 1955, #Alva lost its railway station; the nearest station is now 4km away at #Alloa (itself with no rail links for 40 years from 1968).
In 1965 #Callander lost its station, leaving the nearest as Dunblane, all of 17km away, and #Doune lost its station, leaving the nearest as again Dunblane, 6km away.
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