West Port Garden

2-4 West Port, Edinburgh, EH1
Email: westportgardenersedinburgh@gmail.com

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The West Port Garden will be open to visitors this Doors Open Days on Saturday 25th September 2021 from 10.30am-4pm with local volunteers on hand to show them around.

Sadly the Garden is not wheelchair accessible, nor are there any toilets facilities available.

 

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Edinburgh and East Lothian Doors Open Days is supported by:

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Dalry Cemetery

227 Dalry Road, Edinburgh, EH11 2EQ
Email: friends@dalrycemetery.co.uk

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Volunteers from the Friends of Dalry Cemetery will be on hand on Sunday 26th September 2021 as part of Doors Open Days weekend to answer questions about their work and the history of the Cemetery and offer free guided tours of this unique site.

Please note the Cemetery lodge house is a private residential property and will NOT be open to the public during Doors Open Days.

 

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Cammo Estate

Cammo Road, Edinburgh, EH4 8AW
Email: ihsc25293@blueyonder.co.uk

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We’ll be participating in Doors Open Days weekend on Sunday 26th September when our volunteers will be offering guided walks every hour from 10.00am to 4pm. An exhibition of recent archaeological finds will also be on display at the Cammo Estate Visitor Centre.

Starting at the Visitor Centre, at the entrance to the Estate on Cammo Road, these walks will last approximately two hours. The route around the Cammo Estate will be on paths for much of this time, but sensible footwear would be required.

In order that each group is kept to a manageable size, participation in a tour must be pre-booked at the link below.

 

 

 

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Whitehouse & Grange Bowling Club

18a Hope Terrace, Edinburgh , EH9 2AR
Phone: 0131 447 9606
Email: wandgbc@icloud.com

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You are invited to visit our Club on Sunday 26th September between 12:30 and 16:00.

There will be a one way system operating through the Rose Garden and around the Green with access to view the upstairs part of Clubhouse.

 

 

 

 

 

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Heriot Watt University Campus

The Avenue, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
Email: engage@hw.ac.uk

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Take a self-guided interactive trail in the 380 acres of parkland at our Edinburgh campus.

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Dean Gardens

2 Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh, EH4 1PT
Email: clerk.bhspc@broughtonhighpc.org

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On Sunday 26th September, we plan to open the gates from 9am till 5pm and to have music, art and refreshments from 12pm till 4pm. There is a children’s play park and dogs are welcome on a lead.

Music will be provided by the Edinburgh Gaelic Choir and local band We Travel in Hope. Up to ten community artists will sell their work at stalls and we will have on sale individually wrapped cakes/biscuits and tea/coffee.

There are no toilet facilities in the garden. There are public toilets in Stockbridge, but we cannot guarantee these will be open. There’s not much shelter in the garden, so if it rains – bring umbrellas!

 

 

 

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Amisfield Walled Garden

Amisfield Park, Haddington, East Lothian, EH41 3TE
Email: enquiries@amisfield.org.uk

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We will be open to visitors on Saturday 25th September from 10am – 4pm and Sunday 26th from 1-4pm

The garden is a large, outdoor venue with ample opportunity for social distancing. Hand sanitiser is available on entry and hand-washing facilities available. There are no visitors’ toilet facilities available at this time but picnicking visitors are most welcome!

 

 

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Gosford Estate Forest

Gosford, by Longniddry, East Lothian, EH32 0RG

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Preston Tower

Prestonpans, EH32 9GZ
Phone: 01620 827 827
Email: psg-ap@eastlothian.gov.uk

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Doors Open Days activities will take place in the gardens around Preston Tower and Doocot on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th September from 11am to 3pm.

Come along to the Tower gardens to join in with any of the activities, music, talks and find out more about the proposed developments. No booking required.

The weekend includes:

  • A stonemasonry workshop with local stonemason Gardner Molloy (both days).
  • Scottish Castles storytelling and a children’s craft activity with community librarian Mark Jamieson (Saturday).
  • Live acoustic music from local musicians Gary Coupland and Anna Scott  (Sunday) 
  • Updates on the ongoing project to repair Preston Tower and Doocot from architect Natasha Huq (Sunday) and from heritage consultant Lyndsey Clark (heritage consultant) and interpretation designer Stephen Kirkpatrick (both days).
  • Giant Jenga for everyone to play with and build a tower. 
  • A photographic display showing internal, external and aerial views of Preston Tower as well as new plans to improve access to the adjacent garden.
  • Tower gardens ideas prints – what would you like to see at the end of the new path in the garden.
  • A video collage of the on-going project at Preston Tower Garden, showing internal images, views from the tower and drone footage around the tower.
  • East Lothian Playrangers activities (Sunday)

Please note that access inside Preston Tower and Doocot will not be available to the public at this time, but come and hear about the plans in progress to secure access to both in the near future.

Prestonpans train station (on the North Berwick line) is just a five minute walk away and the No.26 (Clerwood-Tranent) Lothian bus service stops even closer still just outside Hamilton House on West Loan.

If you plan to come by car, please park in the nearby Prestonpans Community Centre car park (see map below).

 

 

 

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Dunbar’s Close Garden

Dunbar's Close Garden, 137 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8BW

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