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Clackmannanshire

Alloa Hub

26 September 2026

Alloa Hub is a community-owned and run facility in the centre of Alloa. It offers display retail space to the “Made in Clacks” range of locally made artisan gifts and goods for small businesses which do not have their own premises. A range of books on local and Scottish themes is also available and the facilities include What's On information for local people and visitors, a meeting/project room, public toilets and shower. Alloa Hub is also home to The Clackmannanshire Tapestry, a fascinating and colourful work stitched by local people as a response to the showing of The Great Tapestry of Scotland in the Speirs Centre in 2017. The tapestry, which is 2.5m long, depicts some of the most important industries of the county, as well as historic and cultural sites and attractions and many other features which held particular significance for the individual stitchers.

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Clackmannanshire

Alloa Ludgate Church and Halls

26 September 2026

27 September 2026

This church replaced a plain 18th century building and was designed by Peddie & Kinnear in Early French Gothic style. In 1902 Scots late Gothic transepts and a pine and marble sanctuary with an elaborate pulpit were added; this work, several of the stained glass windows and the 1904 pipe organ were gifted by various members of the influential Paton family, who owned wool-spinning mills in Alloa and Tillicoultry. The interior was partly modernised in the 21st century and incorporates memorials and other fittings from the former North Church, now operating as The Gate Charity.

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Clackmannanshire

Alloa Mosque

26 September 2026

Alloa Mosque (Musalla as Salaam) is a welcoming Sunni mosque established in 2003. It has been serving the spiritual needs of the local Muslim community for over two decades. It focusses on inclusivity and accommodating diverse backgrounds, welcoming people of all - and no - faiths and offers a range of services, including prayer, worship and Islamic education. It provides services in English, Arabic and Urdu and aims to cater for the needs of a multicultural community, allowing people to feel comfortable and connected during their visits. There will be guided tours; question and answer sessions; a presentation; information about and an exhibition focussing on the historic links between Scotland and the Muslim World; as well as a chance to meet members of the local Muslim community. A virtual tour of Makkah (Mecca), Islam’s holiest site, will also be available.

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Clackmannanshire

Alloa Old Kirkyard and the Mar & Kellie Mausoleum

26 September 2026

26 September 2026

The parish church of St Mungo was established in the 14th century. It was enlarged and the tower raised in 1680-2 by the master mason Tobias Bauchop, whose house, built in 1695, still stands in Kirkgate. Around 1700, John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar, built a private aisle with a burial vault on the north side of the church. He was exiled after leading the 1715 Jacobite Uprising in Scotland; in his later years he planned his own elaborate memorial to be erected in the church. He died in 1732, his body was brought home and he was buried in the family vault, but the memorial was never built. St Mungo's later became very overcrowded and was condemned in 1816: most of it was demolished and many stones were reused to build the new parish church in Bedford Place. The Mar & Kellie Mausoleum was designed by James Gillespie Graham for John Francis Erskine and was built on the site of the Mar Aisle. Some memorial plaques for members of the Erskine family were saved from the old kirk and reused in the mausoleum, the original ceiling of which was painted brightly and decorated with flowers and Rococo panels. It was partly restored in 1994-6. The old kirkyard and Greenside Cemetery contain a fascinating collection of early trade gravestones and fine memorials for many of the people responsible for the development of Alloa as one of Britain’s earliest industrial towns.

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Virtual

Clackmannanshire

Alloa Resonate Together

26 September 2026

27 September 2026

Carsebridge Distillery was founded in 1799 by John Bald and his business partner John Primrose. It was later considered one of the largest in Scotland and in 1877 was a founder member of The Distillers Company Ltd (DCL) of Edinburgh. By the mid 1880s it occupied ten acres and had an average annual output of over 1.5m gallons of grain whisky. It later produced yeast and by 1927 had a workforce of 220, was virtually self-sufficient and had twenty bonded warehouses. Distilling ended in 1983 and it became solely a cooperage and cask store; the distillery buildings were demolished in the 1990s. A new cooperage was built in Cambus and in 2021 most of the site was cleared; only Carsebridge House, originally the distillery manager's home; its walled garden; stables; the so-called "Napoleon" Pillar and the former office buildings, known as Ochil House and Harvey House, remained. Carsebridge House and the stables were demolished in 2024, following persistent vandalism and a devastating fire. Ochil House and Harvey House are virtually all that survive of a place once a vital part of the industrial life of Alloa, Resonate Together is now transforming them carefully into a vibrant Cultural Campus. This community-led regeneration project blends heritage, creativity and wellbeing. Visitors will be able to explore the many architectural features, from the original tiled entrance floor, curved staircases, stained glass and ornate ceilings, to the now iconic "Napoleon" Pillar, which has been rescued, restored and relocated. Guided tours will reveal some of the secrets discovered during the transformation work. Resonate Together will be showcasing its exciting and innovative vision for the future development plans, which will blend contemporary, accessible design with characterful heritage preservation. They will also reveal a hidden part of the site’s wartime past — the old air raid shelter beneath Carsebridge, inviting curious minds, local historians and volunteers to help reimagine this forgotten space. Could you help uncover and share its story? Everyone is welcome to join Resonate Together in imagining what is possible when new life is breathed into old buildings.

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Clackmannanshire

Alloa St John's Episcopal Church

26 September 2026

27 September 2026

This fine church was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in a simple Geometric style, with a separate bell-tower and tall, broach spire. It is one of the most beautifully designed and finished Episcopal churches in Scotland. It was built for Walter Coningsby Erskine, Earl of Mar & Kellie, as a gift to the congregation. Stirling and Clackmannanshire Model Railway Club will be displaying a layout in the church on Saturday from 11.00 to 3.00.

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Clackmannanshire

Alloa St Mungo’s Parish Church

26 September 2026

27 September 2026

Designed by James Gillespie Graham to replace the old parish church in Kirkgate, this Late Georgian building is a large, ornate, battlemented rectangle with a five-bay north elevation. It has an impressive 207ft high spire, its corners clasped by flying buttresses with crocketed pinnacles. External additions were made in 1966-7 by Leslie Grahame Thomson. St Mungo's is, unfortunately, scheduled to close early in 2027, due to the impending merger with Ludgate Church; this is the last time that it will be possible to visit it as the parish church and as part of the Doors Open Days event, so please do not miss the opportunity to see the interior of this fine church.

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Clackmannanshire

Alloa The Coach House Theatre

26 September 2026

27 September 2026

The Alman Dramatic Club was formed in 1939 by a group of women and soon became the largest performing arts group in the county. It developed into an amateur dramatic club and in 1953 the Club was allowed to use the hay loft in the former Coach House of Inglewood. The Hay Loft Theatre opened in 1957 and in 1959 its present name was adopted. Since then the Club has performed works by all the great playwrights, national and international, as well as its own members’ work.

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2026 Theme

Clackmannanshire

Alloa Tower

26 September 2026

27 September 2026

One of the largest and finest towers of its type in Scotland, it was home to the distinguished Erskine family, Earls of Mar, from the later 14th century until 1800. In 1702 John, 6th Earl of Mar, began to convert it into an elegant modern house and created an ambitious and extensive planned landscape around his home. In 1800 the later mansion was destroyed by fire, though the tower survived, but by the 1980s it was derelict. Alloa Tower Building Preservation Trust restored it to its likely appearance in 1712 and the tower was opened formally by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997.

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Clackmannanshire

Alva Ice House

26 September 2026

This very impressive ice house was probably built c1810-20 by James Raymond Johnstone of Alva House. It is buried on the slope below the stables. By the mid-19th century most country houses and estates had an ice house, to keep provisions cold and fresh and provide a supply of ice for fruit sherbets and table decorations. This fine and elaborate example was restored as part of the Ochils Landscape Partnership programme.