Edinburgh Architect David Seel discusses sustainable design ideas for the buildings at the Astley Ainslie site.
Further details for Cockburn Association members who wish to attend our 146th AGM
A Cockburn Conference exploring Edinburgh’s Festivals – past, present and future
The 2020 Annual Cockburn Lecture will examine the future of Edinburgh’s Festivals
A Cockburn Conversation with Oliver Barratt about his time at the Cockburn Association
We’ll be hosting a talk from Professor Richard Rodger, offering fresh insights on Edinburgh’s Colony Housing. He will explore the origins and achievements of a group of working men and women who formed a Cooperative Company in an effort to counteract the disadvantages of living in the congested areas of Victorian Edinburgh. Their achievement was to build over 2300 houses, …
John Gilbert and Annie Flint, authors of Under One Roof Scotland, the highly praised website for tenement owners in Scotland, in conversation with Jo Parry-Geddes of Mill Architects, David Gibbon of GLM Surveyors and Andrew Seatter of Sash and Case Windows. John, Jo and David will be talking from their extensive knowledge of maintaining stone buildings and tenements, especially those …
Designed by the eminent architect George Washington Brown, Edinburgh’s Comely Bank Cemetery was laid near the end of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1896. It has since lost its southern entrance and modern housing now encroaches upon its original, ornate gate piers. Access is now only possible via its north-east corner on Crewe Road. Due to the cemetery’s proximity to the …
We’ll be hosting Patricia Keppie, the Scotland Public Engagement Coordinator of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, as she takes us on a virtual tour of Comely Bank Cemetery. Designed by the eminent architect George Washington Brown, Edinburgh’s Comely Bank Cemetery was laid near the end of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1896. Patricia will tell us more about the history of the …
We’ll be hosting Ed Bethune, the chairperson of the 1722 Waggonway Heritage Group, as he takes us on a virtual tour of their wonderful museum in Cockenzie. The Tranent – Cockenzie Waggonway was built by the York Buildings Company in 1722. Construction started in May of that year, with local timber-wright William Dickson employed to make wooden rails, wagons and wheels …
