In Person South Lanarkshire Biggar Community Fire Station new 7 September 2024 A community fire station. View Details Facilities WC Limited Access
South Lanarkshire Biggar Free Operatives No.167 (Masonic Lodge) new 7 September 2024 We are a Masonic Lodge, approaching 300 years old in July 2027, we have a great collection of very old, fairly old, old and more modern memorabilia on display. Also some of the furniture of the Lodge is over 200 years old. View Details Facilities WC Limited Access
In Person 2024 Theme South Lanarkshire Biggar Gasworks new 7 September 2024 8 September 2024 Almost all of the gasworks buildings and equipment remain. You can even see some of the steam-driven machines used for gas production and distribution in action. Biggar Gasworks passed into state care soon after its doors shut. Today, it’s a lasting reminder of an industry that benefited all of Scotland’s citizens, and the only preserved gasworks left in the country. View Details Facilities WC Limited Access Parking Events For Children
In Person 2024 Theme South Lanarkshire Biggar Kirk 7 September 2024 8 September 2024 Biggar Kirk, which dates from 1546, with 17th Century Penitent’s Stool and Pre-Reformation Tombstone in the porch from 1550’s and traces of the “jougs” outside the south door; these were metal collars by which people were once attached by way of punishment. Thirteen stained glass windows the earliest from 1870. The Kirkyard has many old and interesting stones and is the burial place of the Ancestors of William Ewart Gladstone (19th Century Prime Minister). View Details Facilities WC Limited Access
In Person South Lanarkshire Biggar Puppet Theatre 8 September 2024 Biggar Puppet Theatre is the first and only fully working puppet theatre of its kind in Scotland. The international Purves Puppets have now been firmly established as a leading professional company for 51 years in 2021! In this time, they have toured the world, while also performing in their own award-winning permanent theatre. View Details Facilities Disabled Access Disabled WC WC Refreshments Events For Children Parking
In Person 2024 Theme South Lanarkshire Biggar Youth Project SCIO - The Old Auction Ring new 7 September 2024 Built in the late 1800s, until 2001 The Old Auction Ring was the focus of Biggar’s livestock market and was also used for furniture sales. The premises were converted into a youth centre in 2002 and are currently undergoing an extensive renovation to a design by Fraser/Livingston Architects. Renovation has uncovered some forgotten features including the bell used to announce the start of auctions, and incorporates cutting edge retrofitting technology including solar PV panels, an air-source heat pump and hemp-based wall insulation to improve energy efficiency. Biggar Youth Project is a local charity which uses a modern approach to youth work to provide a nurturing environment that promotes the wellbeing of young people in Biggar and the surrounding area. View Details Facilities Disabled Access Refreshments
In Person South Lanarkshire Cairngryffe Church new 7 September 2024 8 September 2024 Church built as Carmichael Parish Church about 1750. Extensively remodelled 1905, interior walls have the appearance of ashlar stone work, exposed wooden roof beams. Stained glass designed by William Aikman, made by J. Powell and Sons (Whitefriars Glass). Extensive suit of oak church furniture dating from 1905. A modern Stained-Glass window by Crear McCartney. Known as the “little Cathedral of the Upper Ward. View Details
2024 Theme In Person South Lanarkshire Castlebank Horticultural Centre new 7 September 2024 8 September 2024 We are a horticultural centre run by Lanark Community Development Trust based in Castlebank Park, a South Lanarkshire Council owned park. View Details Facilities Disabled WC WC Limited Access Events For Children Refreshments Parking
In Person South Lanarkshire Crawfordjohn Heritage Venture new 7 September 2024 8 September 2024 Small, interesting museum situated in the old Parish Church in Crawfordjohn - full of artefacts, documents and photographs depicting rural life in this corner of the Southern Uplands, plus family and social history of the area. View Details Facilities Disabled Access Events For Children
In Person South Lanarkshire Gillespie Centre new 7 September 2024 8 September 2024 The Gillespie (South Relief) Church was constructed in 1878 at a cost of £4200 to house a congregation which had split from the main church in Biggar at St Mary’s. In 1977, it was decided that the old Gillespie Church, which had been closed some years earlier because of merging local congregations, should be converted into a Community Centre serving Biggar and the surrounding area. Cameron McKenzie, the then Minister of Biggar Kirk, took on the role of masterminding the project. Sufficient money was secured from the community by grants, donations and fundraising activities and the Gillespie Centre opened in 1982 as “The Church Serving the Community.” The cornerstone of the Centre is the Coffee Shop, where 40 plus volunteers are involved. The building has recently been refurbished with the help of grants and further plans are being made to install a lift. The café is known for home baking and a very warm welcome with a play corner for the younger folks. View Details Facilities Disabled Access Limited Access WC Refreshments Events For Children Parking
