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Paris: The route to a smart, sustainable, COVID-resilient city – A Cockburn Conversation

Wed 1st of Sept at 7pm on Zoom

Book a ticket for our latest Cockburn Conversation! Join Prof Cliff Hague in conversation with noted urbanist Nicola Buchoud

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Collections from Edinburgh’s Coastal Communities

Thursday 29th July, 2021 at 6pm

Join Museums & Galleries Edinburgh Curator Anna MacQuarrie and Outreach & Access Manager Diana Morton who will be discussing “Life on the Forth”, the latest virtual exhibition from Auld Reekie Retold and sharing some of their personal insights and experiences of working with collections related to Edinburgh’s coastal communities. From Portobello in the east to South Queensferry in the west, …

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Sustainable Design for Astley Ainslie: ideas on how to build it in and what you could aim to achieve

Thursday 24 June 2021

Edinburgh Architect David Seel discusses sustainable design ideas for the buildings at the Astley Ainslie site.

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Cockburn Association’s 146th Annual General Meeting

Wednesday 5th May at 6.30pm

Further details for Cockburn Association members who wish to attend our 146th AGM

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Whose Festival is it Anyway? A Cockburn Conference

Saturday 30th January 2021

A Cockburn Conference exploring Edinburgh’s Festivals – past, present and future

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“Whose Festival is it Anyway?” The 2020 Cockburn Annual Lecture

Monday 30th November 2020 at 7pm

The 2020 Annual Cockburn Lecture will examine the future of Edinburgh’s Festivals

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30 Years of Opening Doors!

27th September 2020 at 1pm

A Cockburn Conversation with Oliver Barratt about his time at the Cockburn Association

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Edinburgh’s Colony Housing 1860-1910 – Fresh insights from Professor Richard Rodger

Sunday 27th September at 4pm

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, …

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Under One Roof Scotland

Saturday 26 September 2020

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 …

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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. 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 …

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