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March 2016
Dear Friends, Supporters and Colleagues
Welcome to the SCT March e-bulletin.
Civic pride is alive and well in Scotland. On 2 March we had our inaugural Annual Lecture at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh where Professor Emeritus Cliff Hague gave a thought-provoking lecture on 'Civic Identity, Civic Pride, Civic Trust'. See below for more information.
This month has been about celebrating the wonderful people and places which make Scotland so special. On 22 March we held our annual My Place Awards ceremony at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. The My Place Photography Competition prizes were also awarded. It was heartening to see our young people engaging with their built environment through photography - we'll be making Civic Champions of them yet! See below for more information about the winners and exhibition.
As ever, if any group would like me or John Pelan, SCT Director, to meet with them or give a talk then please give us a call or drop us an email.
Gaby Laing, Heritage Officer
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Scottish Civic Trust Annual Lecture
Scottish Civic Trust Annual Lecture 2016 in partnership with the Built Environment Forum Scotland took place on 2 March 2016 at the intimate Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh.
After a lively introduction to the history of the Scottish Civic Trust given by SCT President Sir James Dunbar Nasmith, Professor Emeritus Cliff Hague spoke about 'Civic Identity, Civic Pride, Civic Trust'.
If you were unable to make the lecture, or would like to revisit Cliff's slides and read his accompanying essay, you can download copies from our website.
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Scottish Civic Trust My Place Awards
These awards, supported by the Scottish Government, are unique in Scotland in that they are nominated by local communities. They are not ‘industry’ awards. The ceremony took place at The Lighthouse in Glasgow on 22 March. Young and old, from Kirkwall to Paisley, came together to celebrate photography, people and places.
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(Left) Louis Wall, Civic Champion 2016. (Right) Atlantic Islands Centre, My Place Award Winner 2016.
The Atlantic Islands Centre, a new community facility and visitor centre, designed by Shauna Cameron Architect, on the Isle of Luing, one of Scotland's slate islands in Argyll and Bute has won the Scottish Civic Trust My Place Awards 2016.
The centre was developed to spearhead sustainable development on the island. It opened in the summer of 2015 and has quickly become established as a focal point for community life. The centre is a sustainable and inspiring example of community-led regeneration on a small island. It has greatly improved the quality of life on the island of Luing and made it a more attractive place to live, work and visit.
Louis Wall, nominated by South West Railway Adopters Gardening Group, won the Civic Champion award. Six years ago Louis noticed his local station, Stranraer, was lacking in colour and life so, with approval, he set about transforming it with imaginative and colourful plants. Since then, he has achieved plantings at 20 stations in the South West of Scotland with the involvement and support of many volunteers, local groups, communities and schools. He works long days to achieve his objectives: making the stations of South West Scotland bloom with vibrant colour.
Click here to read more about the winners and commendations.
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(Top) Scott McFadzean's photograph 'The Path Beyond'; Scott with David Middleton
(Bottom) Fin Siderfin's photograph 'Golden Solitude'; Fin with David Middleton
The winners of the annual My Place Photography Competition which is supported by Historic Environment Scotland were also announced at the ceremony. Certificates and prizes for the winning and commended photographs were presented by David Middleton, Chief Executive of Historic Environment Scotland.
The winner of the primary school category is Scott McFadzean of Gargieston Primary School, Kilmarnock for his photograph 'The Path Beyond' and the winner of the secondary school category is Fin Siderfin of Kirkwall Grammar School, Orkney for his photograph 'Golden Solitude'.
Click here to read more about the winners and the My Place Photography Competition.
You can see galleries of all the fantastic entries on our website.
The Scottish Civic Trust would like to extend its thanks to all those who made the My Place Awards and My Place Photography Competition happen:
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My Place Exhibition - The Lighthouse
The My Place Exhibition is free and open to the public. It showcases the winning photographs of the My Place Photography Competition, as well as all the nominated projects and people for the My Place Awards and Civic Champion award.
The exhibition will run until 2 May 2016.
Level 2
The Lighthouse
Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
www.thelighthouse.co.uk
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BEFS Congress 2016 - Heritage and Diversity
On 9 March 2016, the Built Environment Forum Scotland held their annual congress on the theme 'Heritage and Diversity'.
Who engages with Scotland’s historic environment? At present the sector is predominantly white and middle class. Scotland’s Historic Environment Strategy, ‘Our Place in Time’ sets out the aspiration to broaden engagement with Scotland’s communities. In order to develop the appeal and share the benefits we need to make the historic environment relevant to the widest range of people and the conference aims to start a dialogue within the sector on how to achieve this. BEFS hope to raise the profile of this issue and highlight opportunities for practitioners with the event run on World Café principles.
Read some of the blog responses to the congress here.
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Scotland's Urban Past
Community groups, societies and local civic trusts all over Scotland are embarking on new heritage projects thanks to Scotland’s Urban Past (SUP), a five-year nationwide initiative about the history of Scotland’s towns and cities from Historic Environment Scotland and supported by Heritage Lottery Fund.
Project spotlight: Glasgow Disability Alliance
During autumn 2015, members of the Glasgow Disability Alliance (GDA) young people’s network took the first steps in their SUP project to investigate and document their experiences of the urban environment, focusing on the themes of education, leisure and access for disabled people.
In a series of free workshops from SUP held in Glasgow's inspiring buildings, the group learned how to interpret urban architecture and historical maps, mapping places and journeys, and got hands on experience in photography and film interviews.
During the workshops, group members creatively responded to their urban environment by producing video interviews, personalised maps and art works celebrating their favourite places.
The final workshop concluded with the creation of a wonderful collage-mural exhibiting the group’s art work and describing their favourite places and the connections between them. The group’s video interviews are available to view on a specially created digital map.
If you have an idea for a Scotland's Urban Past project, contact the team at sup@rcahms.gov.uk or visit www.scotlandsurbanpast.org.uk.
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Alexander 'Greek' Thomson Society Lecture Series
The lectures are free for anyone to attend, no booking is required and the information about them is below. All lectures will be held in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre, Bourdon Building, Glasgow School of Art, 177 Renfrew Street Glasgow G3 6RQ.
7.00pm for 7.30pm. Refreshments are provided and non-members are welcome. Free of charge but donations are welcome.
Wednesday 30 March
Fiona Sinclair – Charles Wilson
Wednesday 6th April
Liz Davidson – After the Fire – The Glasgow School of Art
Wednesday 13th April
Mark Baines – Gillespie, Kidd & Coia – Themes & Variations
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Local groups' events
New Glasgow Society
24-26 March 2016: Ruth Kirkby - Weaving Type
An exhibition of weaving and typography through letterpress prints. The project explores weaving metal type, making the restricting process transform typography away from distinct graphic elements back to the original woven appearance of fifteenth century typography and textura. At New Glasgow Society Thus 24th (opening, 7pm) then Fri 25th - Sat 26th March (10am - 6pm)
Markinch Heritage Group
7 April 2016: Scottish Oddities - Hamish Brown
All talks take place at The 252 Memorial Club, Betson Street, Markinch at 19.00 unless otherwise stated. Free to members and £2 for non members
Lennox Heritage Society
13 April 2016: AGM and Lecture: The Skylark IX Recovery Trust - Anne Dyer
The Trust was formed in 2013 and is named for the historic little ship Skylark IX which rescued over 600 men from the beaches of Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo in WWII.
Galloway Preservation Society
16 April 2016: AGM and Lecture: Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere, The Rise and Fall of Galloway Dykes from Civil Unrest to Social Cohesion - Nic Coomby
2pm, Ringford Village Hall, Ringford, DG8 7DW
Linlithgow Civic Trust
23 April 2016: Another Chance to View the Restoration Work at Riddles Court at 2pm or 3pm
As the first visit on 19th February was heavily oversubscribed, we have arranged two more visits on 23 April. There will be one tour accommodating fifteen people at a time as work will be ongoing on the site. Will members of the Trust please indicate their interest in joining this visit contact Marilyne MacLaren email: marilynemaclaren@btinternet.com or tel: 01506 845 275.
Pollokshields Heritage
26 April 2016: AGM and Lecture: The City of Glasgow Police - 175 Years of History - Alastair Dinsmore
The City of Glasgow Police has a fascinating history. From the City’s attempts to establish a police force in 1779 and again in 1789, it eventually obtained the Glasgow Police Act of 1800. The presentation outlines crimes and the detectives who caught the criminals through the 19th and into the 20th century. Innovations such as photographic criminal identification, early forensic crime scene examination and even the chequered cap band of many of the World’s police were pioneered in Glasgow. The principal events during the turbulent years of the 20th century shaped the City and its police force up to the final years before 1975 when it ceased as a separate entity and became part of Strathclyde Police.
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