• Garnock Connections

    Connecting people and places within the Landscape

A post to ponder cover image

A post to ponder

After a few months to reflect on the end of the delivery stage of Garnock Connections, we have a short video to share that highlights some of the landscape features and outputs that were successfully delivered as part of the project. [Garnock skiff just ...

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Paths Stewardship volunteering

Have you been to a Path Stewardship volunteering event yet? No? Well there is still time! The Paths Stewardship group has teamed up with The North Ayrshire Conservation Volunteers for a series of events in Eglinton park to improve the quality of the paths....

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What did the Peel reveal? cover image

What did the Peel reveal?

[IMG20220429105913.jpeg] Let’s take a closer look at some aspects of the work: The staircase [Stairs_before_and_after2.jpeg] The Peel Tower features a turnpike stair: it has spiral stairs that wind around a central pole, called a newel. Before consolidati...

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A Tower on the Loch? cover image

A Tower on the Loch?

One of our projects, Revealing Peel Tower, has involved consolidating the Peel Tower of Castle Semple Loch, but… What’s a Peel and why is it on the Loch? It all started a long time ago…[Peel1.jpeg] Ruins of the west wall of Peel Tower Once upon a time, Cas...

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