Lunch at Nobles at Bellfield in Leith with teenage student apprentice grandson, who has travelled up from Co Durham to spent the weekend with the ailing auldies. J’s day was made when a beautiful Bedlington terrier came to the next table.

The fabulous Aberdeen Church Recorders were our documenting another beautiful church this week, this time the historic Cruden Parish Church. They were joined by two new volunteers, Sally & Tony. Sally's family is from the area and her great grandmother even has a room named after her in the church.

Lord and Lady Bruce have announced their intention to purchase Culross Abbey Church in Fife to retain as a place of worship and community. The historic church has been on the market since August last year for offers over £35k. Story here 👇 www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/2671925...

Culross Abbey: Bruces announce they will purchase historic West Fife site

Culross Abbey was put on the market for sale earlier this year for offers over £35,000.

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Good news about the former Leith St Andrew’s building We are delighted to be able to tell you that Leith St Andrew's Trust has been successful in its funding application to buy the former Leith St Andrew's building. Over the next few months, legal work will progress to pass ownership to the Trust.…

Good news about the former Leith St Andrew’s building

We are delighted to be able to tell you that Leith St Andrew's Trust has been successful in its funding application to buy the former Leith St Andrew's building. Over the next few months, legal work will progress to pass ownership to the Trust. We are so pleased that the building will remain in community use and be at the heart of the community as it as been for 145 years.

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Congratulations to the "The South" in Girvan, Leith St Andrew's Trust, the Friends of New Aberdour Church Pilgrimage & Heritage Initiative, Saline Kirk Development Group and St George’s Tillydrone Community Centre. We look forward to hearing more about the next chapter in these buildings' stories.

In another good news story for Scotland's religious built heritage today, the Scottish Land Fund has announced that it has funded the purchase of FIVE church buildings by local community groups in its latest round of grants. Find the full list of supported projects on the Land Fund website here 👇

Scottish Land Fund marks its 25th anniversary with record funding for communities across Scotland | The National Lottery Community Fund

The Scottish Land Fund marks 25 years by awarding more than £3 million to 24 community projects, supporting local ownership of buildings, land and community assets.

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Listening to Britten’s War Requiem on @BBCRadio3. First heard it at the Kelvin Hall on 2nd May 1964. British Newspaper Archive.

BROUGHTON St MARY'S.—Winter Annunciation. Window commemorates the life of Margaret Bannatyne Bryson (1858–80). #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #outandabout

Kate MacNiven: The Silent Witch of Monzie 12 Nov, Aberdeen: free In the latter half of the 17th century, Kate MacNiven was burnt as a witch. Her story lay silent except in legend. Jess Smith brings out the scant details, & reminds us that ‘truth will not be silenced’ www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/...

Jess Smith on Kate MacNiven: The Silent Witch of Monzie

Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

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A few snaps from the Inverclyde Church Recorders, who recently visited the beautiful Merrylea Parish Church in Glasgow as part of our rapid church recording project. A huge thanks to these hard-working volunteers and to the congregation who welcomed them into their historic building.

Built in a modern neo-Gothic style of red Dumfriesshire sandstone, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek is Netherlee & Stamperland Parish Church, by the architectural firm of Stewart & Paterson. The church’s foundation stone was laid on the 25th March 1933 and it opened for worship on 24 June 1934. 🧵1/2

Remembering my mother, Jean, who died 50 years ago today in Vale of Leven hospital, aged 73, after a fall.

#RemembranceSunday Remembering all ranks Royal Army Medical Corps. In Arduis Fidelis.

Thanks to Mark from the Friends of Crieff Cemetery for an interesting and well attended tour of the war graves this afternoon.

Lots of herons and other birds in Lochend Park this afternoon, including one surveying his surroundings from the doocot.

There is a war graves tour, given by the Friends of Crieff Cemetery, tomorrow at 2pm. Lots of interesting (and sad) stories behind the names.

👀 HYBRID Talk: ‘Sumptuous’ Rosslyn Chapel: Pious Experience in Late Medieval Scotland Augustine United Church, Edinburgh (& Online) Monday, November 30, 4 PM - 5 PM GMT Free but registration required and donations welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sumptuous-...

‘Sumptuous’ Rosslyn Chapel: Pious Experience in Late Medieval Scotland

This hybrid talk will be presented by Dr Lizzie Swarbrick FSAScot.

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Some more very welcome positive news for Scotland's religious built heritage today as the Friends of Wamphray Church announce that they have raised the sums necessary to purchase their historic kirk from the Church of Scotland. Congratulations to all involved. We look forward to visiting soon! 🎉

Community celebrates purchase of beloved Wamphray Church

The Friends of Wamphray Church complete a deal to buy the property so it is safe "for years to come".

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Dr Peter Christie, one of the founding members of the Inverclyde Church Recorders, has shared a third volume of images of war memorials in closed or closing churches located in the west of Scotland. In this video he plays"Nightfall in camp" by Douglas A Pope. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlU5...

The present church of our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, The Priory Church, Coldingham, occupies the choir and sanctuary of the early 13th-century building. Pointed arches and tall lancet stained-glass windows define the medieval style of the interior. 🧵1/2

A wee snap taken earlier today in front of the magnificent David Octavius Hill painting of the Disruption, just along the corridor from our office, following another excellent hybrid meeting of our board of trustees and the trustees of Historic Churches Scotland.

There has been Christian worship on the site of our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, The Priory Church, Coldingham, for over 1000 years. It was founded in 1098 by Edgar, King of Scots and son of Malcolm Canmore and St Margaret, in gratitude to Almighty God for recovering his kingdom from his uncle. 🧵1/3

Day 31 of #31DaysOfGraves - #MementoMori Perhaps the toughest pick of the month as Scotland is blessed with thousands of remarkable 18th century monuments filled with wonderful "Memento Mori" symbols. We have plumped this year for this wonderful example in Lundie Kirkyard in Angus. 😍

Glenturret Distillery on the west bank of the Turret Burn, a mile north of the centre of Crieff in Perthshire. It is said to be the oldest (legal) distillery in Scotland, being established in 1775. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Crieff #Perthshire #Glenturret #Distillery

“Ye’ll have heard tell of Prophet Peden… He was wild’s a peat-hag, fearsome to look at, fearsome to hear, his face like the day of judgment” —Alexander Peden has a cameo role in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Tale of Tod Lapraik” – read it in our free ebook #Halloween 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

Strange Tales

Introduction by Jeremy Hodges Scots glossaries by Pauline Cairns Speitel Published in: PDF, ePUB and mobipocket To mark Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2013, the Association for Scottish Literary Studies…

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Robbie Richardson@londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 2w ago

Shoutout to 17th-century rebel Scottish preacher Alexander Peden’s mask he wore as a disguise while preaching outdoor sermons and hiding in caves. Complete with actual human hair and false teeth (the latter are not pictured but were apparently pig-like).

At Hallowe’en, in the (very) distant past we went round the local area as galoshins or guisers, with turnip lanterns. Here’s an article I wrote some years ago for the Vale of Leven history website: www.valeofleven.org.uk/contribution...

Just been out for a meal with daughter and grandson, who have come up from Cumbria to check up on the auld yins.

Between April and Sept 1988 a derelict Clydeside docksite was transformed into the Glasgow Garden Festival. At its heart was a prefabricated church, raised by an ecumenical committee. Rev Robin McHaffie has shared his memories and photos with us 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/faith-i...

My distant relative, 2Lt Robert McAllister, Post Office Rifles, 8th City of London Regiment, was killed 109 years ago #OTD. My grandson visited his grave in Cement House Cemetery in 2017 and paid his respects. I would love to find Robert’s photo.

Day 28 of #31DaysOfGraves - Landscape We're heading back to the beautiful Liberton Kirk in Edinburgh for this one, to share this remarkable 18th century table top tomb. On one end, the stonemason carved a landscape view of the a local agricultural scene, the deceased's farmhouse in the background.