AHSS events

Regional Events 2008 updated 03-Feb-2008

Members are invited to attend any activity or visit organised by any group; more detailed programmes are usually sent out directly by the groups. Contact the group activities organiser for further details or for details of any activity that may not included in the diary.

NATIONAL
Please see the National Activities section for full details of forthcoming events.

Please contact the National Office (0131 557 0019; nationaloffice@ahss.org.uk) for booking forms for any of the following events.

DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY
Patron: Mrs R Stenhouse Stewart
Chairman: John Lane (01557 815 091) Hon. Secretary: Mrs Sue Douglas (01556 680 268)

Events to be listed.

FORTH & BORDERS
Chairman: Jocelyn Cunliffe; Group Secretary: Yvonne Hillyard

WINTER LECTURE SERIES 2007-2008
Lectures will take place at the Society’s National Headquarters. The Glasite Meeting House, 33 Barony Street, Edinburgh, Mondays at 6.30pm.

11 February 2008
Little Houses: The National Trust for Scotland’s Improvement Scheme for Small Historic Homes
Diane Watters
Diane Watters is a Buildings Investigator at RCAHMS, and an author and researcher who specialises in 19th and 20th century. She will examine the history and achievements of this internationally recognized Scottish programme of urban conservation.

10 March 2008
(Lecture held in conjunction with the Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group)
Buildings of the Scottish Country Estate: Form, Function and Fantasy in Northern Scotland
Elizabeth Beaton
Elizabeth Beaton is an independent architectural historian with a particular interest in rural buildings in both the vernacular and formal architectural context in northern Scotland, where she has lived and worked for nearly forty years.

Admission: £5 non-members/£4 members/£2 students; members may attend 6 lectures for £20.

NORTH EAST
Chairman: Mike P Taitt, Newmains, Oyne, Insch, Aberdeenshire, AB52 6RD

Events to be listed.

STRATHCLYDE
Further information on the following events can be obtained from Audrey Gardner (0141 339 1205)

Events to be listed.

TAYSIDE & EAST FIFE
Chairman: Adam Swan (01382 201094 / 07711 847463) 091), 1 Panmure Terrace, Dundee DD3 6HP

Events to be listed.