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East Lothian heritage hub in Haddington, with archives, museum, local history and library. Open 7 days. Monthly news: johngraycentre.org/connect/newsle…
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💡More Spotlight on historical 🌹: 📷🔁St. Anne's, Dirleton Castle grounds; Amisfield walled garden, Gullane House.
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📢Haddingtonshire Histories Podcast Alert📢
🌟“The East Lothian Witchcraft Trilogy” PART 2 focuses on accusations, legal proceedings, punishment, recognition & pardons.🌟
Available on & https://t.co/KSN5ONc5uc

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Todays images are inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson who was born on this day in 1850. Stevenson & his family had strong connections with spending many holidays in the town. Fidra Island is said to be the inspiration for RLS's most famous work, Treasure Island.

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Once upon a time we had an Artist in Residence in the archive. Lucy Roscoe took inspiration from our Criminal Register to create a series of fabulous illustrations. Read more on the project here https://t.co/KbWYg6kUJt

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With many exploring the creative arts in lockdown our Art for Health’s sake exhibition is worth a browse. Enjoy lovely artworks and background reading including quotes from Florence Nightingale discussing links between art and wellbeing. https://t.co/osK4Lhaoig.

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Wee Tuesday treat for you. We've just uploaded over a thousand images from the museums photograph collection to our website.

A wee sample below but you can browse the full collection here - https://t.co/Y7N7XusFPZ

As ever your comments/corrections are welcome 😊

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theme is Coal. In 1598 Haddington was destroyed by fire. To stop this happening again, the Town Crier proclaimed the poem 'Coal and Candle' through the streets every night for the next 250 yrs to remind people to put out their flames.

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Did you go Preston Lodge? We're working with them to digitise their fab photo collection which will soon be available on our website.
Heres some tasters & there's more info at https://t.co/eQbHgEbdLN
The school is also having an alumni event on Fri Oct 4th. Why not pop along?

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Another fabulous accession for the archives today - records from Photographs, school magazines and scrapbooks complement the log books and registers we already hold dating back to 1883 😊

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