Reports on Visits and Events: 2006
- Saturday 25th November 2006, 10:00 am till 4:00 pm - Advent Fair at
The Cross/Burgh Halls
- Burgh Beautiful sold plants at the Cross and The Trust
will had a stand in the Burgh Halls.
- Friday
24 November 2006 at 1:30 pm - Visit to the Royal Bank of Scotland, Gogar
 Members
enjoyed a guided tour of the Bank's new headquarters at Gogar, which
provide world class office accommodation for 3,250 employees and 350 suppliers'
staff. The well landscaped 100 acre campus site includes 3
"B" listed buildings, several new buildings and well hidden
multi-storey car parking. The spacious main building has 6
business houses and the executive house built around a 270 metre
internal street with live trees and retail facilities. Gogar
House has been refurbished as a restaurant, with a leisure centre
built next to it, and the stables have been converted to a
nursery. The new conference centre has excellent facilities for
350 delegated and there is an on-campus residential business school
incorporating the restored Gogar Park House and a new building.- Monday 30 Oct. 2006 at 7:15 pm - Social Evening & Talk in the Adam
Room, Cross House
- History teacher and local historian Bruce Jamieson gave a short talk
on "Place Names of Linlithgow" to members. Bruce's
talk was most interesting and entertaining and his presentation was
much appreciated. The Planning Spokesman, Ron Smith gave members
an update on the situation regarding the Inquiry currently underway
into the West Lothian Local Plan.
- The full text of Bruce's excellent takl is available for download as
an Adobe Acrobat PDF file (28 Kb): Click
Here.
 Sunday 11 June 2006 at 3:00 pm - Visit to Peebles- We met in the Tontine Hotel in Peebles High Street for tea/coffee and
met members of the Peebles
Civic Society, who took us on a walkabout in the town.
Following our tour we returned to the Tontine Hotel for high tea
before travelling home.
- Saturday 6 May 2006 at 7:00pm - Evening Cruise on the Union Canal
- Members of the Trust were treated to an evening cruise on the Union
Canal on board St Magdalene piloted by John Aitken with the help of
Barbara Braithwaite. A welcome buffet was started after passing
Preston Road. This allowed plenty of time for the puddings on the way
back from the Avon Aqueduct!
- Saturday 8th April 2006 at 7:15 pm - AGM
- The AGM was held in the former Abercorn School, now the offices of
the A9 Partnership. We are grateful to Roy Alexander and his staff for
allowing us to hold the event there. Chris Long was elected chairman,
replacing Ron Smith. The formal meeting was followed by a buffet
supper with wine and a decorated cake to celebrate 35 years of the
Trust.
- Monday 13th March 2006 - LCT Winter Lecture
- Unfortunately our speaker, Trevor Croft, former Director of The
National Trust for Scotland and now an Inquiry Reporter for the
Scottish Executive was unable to attend for pressing personal
reasons. At short notice Karen Heywood stood in and delivered an
excellent talk about the planning appeal system. She gave an
explanation of likely changes under the new planning bill recently
published. The time of this talk was very opportune, given that the
Civic Trust has recently commented on the new West Lothian Local
Plan and will be represented at the proposed Inquiry to be held
later this year.
- Tuesday 14th February 2006 - the 2006 Annet Lecture
- This year's Annet Lecture, which is organised by Linlithgow
Heritage Trust, was given by Dr David Caldwell from the Royal Museum
of Scotland. His subject covered 'Discovering Robinson Crusoe'. In
his interesting talk, David told about his voyage to the South
Atlantic in search of the island where Alexander Selkirk was
shipwrecked.
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