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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

/…is now Laighills Park, for Dunblane Hydropathic Club which opened 1892 - Hydropathic Hotel (now Doubletree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro) having been built 1878

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission – donations invited

Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

It's #NationalGolfLoversDay #NationalGolfDay
#GolfDay
#GolfLoversDay today. Dunblane New Golf Club's 18-hole course was designed by Major Cecil Hutchison & James Braid in 1922, play starting 1923, officially opened 1924. It's 'new' because it replaced 9-hole course, at what…/👇

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 9d

Newly available now from Dunblane Museum Shop, for just £4, is book by Robin J Davis, "Humble Life at The Cross - Cathedral Cottage and St Clement's - two Dunblane cottages: a history"

🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 10d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 10d

/…’TWAS in the year 1715, & on the 10th of November,
Which the people of Scotland have cause to remember;
On that day the Earl of Mar left Perth bound for Sheriffmuir,
At the same time leaving behind a garrison under Colonel Balfour.

🔗 See more at: mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/the-battl…
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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 10d

#OnThisDay 1902 Scotland’s William McGonagall died. He was widely acclaimed as worst poet in history, & composed many poems including about Jacobite battle at Dunblane, "The Battle of Sheriffmuir" beginning in same style as his most famous poem about Tay Bridge Disaster…/👇

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 10d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

Dunblane Museum is open specially for Doors Open Days on Sun 28 Sep 11am-4pm

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 10d

/…Hand loom weaving was chief industry of Dunblane, manufacturing town of some importance before invention of power looms. At one point there were 700 hand loom weavers in Dunblane chiefly weaving cotton, lint & wool. On invention of power loom the trade vanished…/

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 10d

Today is #WorldRiversDay #RiversDay. The Allan Water is river which runs through Dunblane, & through centuries has been source of power for many mills in Dunblane. In 1600 there were 7 corn mills & 3 waulk mills. By 1800 most mills were spinning & weaving yarn & wool…/👇

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 11d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

Dunblane Museum is open specially for Doors Open Days on Sunday 28 September 11am-4pm
#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 11d

Today is #MuseumDay so do please plan to visit Dunblane Museum, and encourage others to do so. There’s displays telling stories from Dunblane’s past, as well as about the Battle of Sheriffmuir, lots about the beautiful medieval Dunblane Cathedral, and there’s a gift shop…/👇

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 13d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

Dunblane Museum is open specially for Doors Open Days on Sunday 28 September 11am-4pm

#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 13d

#OnThisDay 1593 Bishop of Dunblane William Chisholm II died

He ordained Scottish Protestant Reformation leader John Knox as a Catholic priest

Mary Queen of Scots employed him in diplomatic missions, including to Pope for leave for her marriage with Darnley
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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 13d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

Dunblane Museum is open specially for Doors Open Days on Sun 28 Sep 11am-4pm

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 13d

Please note that the display in Dunblane Museum about tennis sporting achievements of Sir Andy Murray & Jamie Murray OBE is currently being redeveloped so is currently unavailable to view.

Dunblane Museum shop has several items related to Andy Murray's Olympic Gold Post box…/👇

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 15d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

Dunblane Museum is open specially for Doors Open Days on Sun 28 Sep 11am-4pm

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 15d

#OnThisDay 1756 Scottish engineer & inventor of "tar macadam" road surface John McAdam was born. Dunblane roads did not begin to be surfaced until beginning of 20th century & these images illustrate roads in Dunblane prior to this time

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 16d

/…This picture is part of group's work in progress (of station & Stirling Road)

Right now they’re appealing for information & photographs c1960 north of railway station (now car park up to footbridge at signal box). What was the road, pavement surface here?

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 16d

A request for more photographs about Dunblane around 1960 has come in from an Aberdeen-based group which is making a museum-quality model of the railway through Dunblane as it was around 1960. The model covers from bowling green to Allanwater viaduct…/👇

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 16d

/…Find out about walks around Dunblane at this link:
dunblane.info/1448-walks-d...

🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

Dunblane Museum is open specially for Doors Open Days on Sun 28 Sep 11am-4pm

Walks in and around Dunblane

Dunblane offers lovely walks for everyone; around the historic town, along the river, through parks, out to Doune, up to Sheriffmuir, up Dumyat and over the Ochils. Some can be walked one way returnin...

dunblane.info

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 16d

It's #WorldCarfreeDay #CarfreeDay. Dunblane Museum is at heart of beautiful walks within Dunblane. Combine a walk with visit to Dunblane Museum (Dunblane well served by rail & bus links), steps from beautiful medieval @DunblaneCathedral.bsky.social & historic @LeightonLibrary.bsky.social
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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 18d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 18d

#OnThisDay 1832 celebrated Scottish historical novelist, playwright & poet Sir Walter Scott died. He wrote about Dunblane's 1715 Jacobite Battle of Sheriffmuir in his "Tales of a Grandfather." Dunblane Museum has many items in its collection about the 1715 Jacobite Battle of Sheriffmuir…/👇

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 18d

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social · 18d

/…opportunity to enjoy local spring water & variety of hydropathic treatments

It served as military hospital during World War I & later as girls' boarding school & convalescence home for wounded soldiers during World War II
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