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Site Specifics - Alien Wars

6 Aug 2009

What is it? Imagine stepping into the world of Alien and Aliens (as created by Ridley Scott and James Cameron respectively) as you are guided round the Arches’ basement with extra terrestrials leaping out to scare you at every turn. ‘A ghost train on…

Site Specifics - Stirling Castle

Site Specifics - Stirling Castle

6 Aug 2009

What is it? Apart from the backdrop for Braveheart? It’s Scotland’s grandest stronghold, the crucial strategic point in the Wars of Independence, home of the Scottish kings for half a millennium. And, er, the backdrop for Braveheart. Great. I love…

Site Specifics: Edinburgh Zoo

Site Specifics: Edinburgh Zoo

11 Jun 2009

What is it? It’s a zoo. In Edinburgh. The name’s a bit of a giveaway, to be honest, but if you’d like some numbers: 82 acres of parkland (mostly on Costorphine Hill), housing well over 1000 animals and birds, and attracting more than 600,000 visitors…

Edinburgh Castle

Site Specifics: Edinburgh Castle

14 May 2009

What is it? Do I really have to answer this? It’s that gigantic castle thing on a rock dominating your capital city. Yeah, we know Look, it may seem like rather an obvious choice, but really, when was the last time you actually visited? May is the…

The Hippodrome, Bo’Ness

Site Specifics: The Hippodrome, Bo’Ness

16 Apr 2009

What is it? Opened in 1912, the Hippodrome was Scotland’s first purpose-built cinema. This beautiful pre-art deco picture palace was designed by local architect Matthew Steele for Louis Dickson, a cinematographic pioneer, who used it to show his own…

Glasgow Necropolis

Site Specifics: The Glasgow Necropolis

2 Apr 2009

What is it? A Victorian Gothic fantasy of what a cemetery should look like. At least 50,000 Glaswegians have been buried there, in 3,500 tombs and mausoleums. You want us to go to a graveyard? It’s not just a graveyard. It’s a fascinating look…

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19 Mar 2009

This fortnight: Traquair House, Innerleithen What is it? Scotland’s oldest inhabited house, dating back to 1107, so we’ll thank you to be a little more respectful in your tone. Sorry. Pray tell, what manner of house is it? One of the last…

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Site Specifics

5 Mar 2009

What is it? Two converted old buildings on the Royal Mile, housing a very impressive selection of toys and children’s clothes, concentrating on the 18th–20th centuries. What’s it like then? Not as big as you remember it being when you were little.

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