• Garnock Connections

    Connecting people and places within the Landscape

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Interpretation

Our interpretation project was all about sharing the amazing stories of wildlife and history from across the Garnock Connections landscape. The first step in this project was to reach out to the communities of the area. We wanted to know all about the sights, sounds, and places within the Garnock Connections landscape that matter to you. Where you like to walk in the landscape? What wildlife you enjoy seeing around? Whose stories mean the most to you?  This helped us to develop a website to enable you to share all this with us and others too.

We worked with Icecream Architecture to develop the digital archive (now with a new collections feature to create your own online exhibitions) and heritage trails app, titled Places That We Know. Both are already full of information about the local landscape, along with some local favourite walking and cycling trails. And if your favourite story or trail isn't there, you can simply add it and share with the world. 

A series of events celebrating the unique mix of natural and cultural heritage that makes the Garnock Connections area so special were delivered as part of the project.

We also launched a VR film about some of the more mysterious and mythical stories of the project area, watch it here and immerse yourself in tales of the landscape.

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Outputs achieved

1 website

1 digital archive

1 heritage trails app

14 heritage walks

1 sense of place toolkit

4 films

1 VR film

20 droplet sculptures

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Heritage walk in and around Kilbirnie
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Heritage walk in and around Kilbirnie

Gathering stories on our hi-tech computer
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Gathering stories on our hi-tech computer

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Gathering local stories at Marymass
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Gathering local stories at Marymass

Following a trail on the Places That We Know app
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Following a trail on the Places That We Know app

A paper trail map to complement Places That We Know app/website
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A paper trail map to complement Places That We Know app/website

Did you know?

The Nobel dynamite factory at Ardeer was once the largest explosives factory in the world. In its heyday it employed 13,000 people and had its own bank, travel agent, and dentist.

The photograph shows workers arriving at the factory being searched for matches (© North Ayrshire Libraries)