The Sustainability Squad Biodiversity Team have been sowing cosmos, sunflowers and marigolds which we will be planting in the school grounds as well as to sell at the summer fete 🌸🌱🦋 #SDG15

#DPSP7A #DPSP7G #DPSP7HH did a brilliant job presenting their fragrance enterprise challenge to Mr Roy from ⁦Morrison's Academy⁩ we are so proud of our young learners and can’t wait to see how the 3 winners get on in the next round!

Dunblane 2025 - 13 A4 images to hang on your wall all year round.

Calender 2025 - 13 A4 images with plenty of room to add your own notes/birthdays/appointments.

Calendars can be bought at a reduced rate of £7 until 30.04.2025. ( + P&P). Normal price £10. #teamcalendar

🧺 Today is #NationalHangingOutDay #HangingOutDay to highlight benefits of hanging clothes on a clothesline to dry. For centuries, spreading laundry in sun was best way of whitening it, whether spreading linen on grass to bleach in sun, or putting laundry on line to dry.../🧵👇

/...The area of grass set aside for this was called a bleaching green, drying green, or grass yard.

Grass Yard, Bishop's Yard, bleaching or drying green in Dunblane is area of grass beneath former Bishop's Palace leading down towards River Allan. Prior to the Reformation.../

/...it was garden ground attached to the Palace of Bishop of Dunblane. After Reformation, along with Cathedral in Dunblane, drying green became Crown property, but use of it was given to parish ministers over a considerable period from 1689 onwards. The ground was sometimes.../

/...cultivated & portion kept as kitchen garden, & during summer months the minister was accustomed to allow inhabitants to use portion for bleaching their linen. In 19th century petition was presented to Lord Chief Baron & other Barons of His Majesty's Exchequer in Scotland.../

/...on behalf of Dunblane inhabitants, asking for ground for benefit of community. The petition was eventually granted in 1842 for public of Dunblane to use it for purposes of bleaching green. A stone monument stands in bleaching green just below Dunblane Cathedral Manse with.../

/...the inscription 'In 1842 Her Majesty's Commissioners gave a lease of this grass yard of Dunblane as a bleaching Green for the inhabitants.' In 1933 Bishop's Yard was purchased from Crown by Dunblane Town Council for community.../

/...The first photograph (by George Washington Wilson from around 1860) clearly shows bleaching green in use (with some linen bleaching on grass, & some drying on lines)

In second photograph, one of oldest known photographs of Dunblane Cathedral, taken from across.../

/...the river in 1857/58, the stone monument (immediately behind washing line pole to the far right in the photograph) can be clearly seen. Photographer was Alexander McGlashon (1811-1877). Thanks are accorded to Dunblane photo historian Alex Sinclair for sharing this image.../

/...His wife, Eileen, is great, great granddaughter of photographer Alexander McGlashon

Dunblane Museum special exhibition in April celebrates 400 years of building of Dunblane Museum, with pictures & artefacts from historical happenings in Dunblane over past 4 centuries.../

/...🗓️ Dunblane Museum is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#OnThisDay 1560 German astronomer & academic Philipp Melanchthon died. He was collaborator with Martin Luther, first systematic theologian of Protestant Reformation, & intellectual leader of Lutheran Reformation. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of his.../

/...'Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae' (Common Places in Theology or Fundamental Doctrinal Themes), of which Martin Luther said 'Next to Holy Scripture, there is no better book.'

💷 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library will remain closed for few.../

/...weeks yet as book collection starts to return from storage elsewhere, after restoration work to the building

💷💳 Please support Leighton Library Restoration Appeal to help ensure Dunblane's historic Leighton Library leightonlibrary.org.uk/leighton-libra…

All welcome to presentation 'Conflict and Reconciliation' given by The Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT, on How to Stop a War: lessons from North Macedonia 2001. Dunblane Cathedral Halls Sun 21 Apr 3pm followed by tea/coffee. Admission free

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For centuries the area of grass between Dunblane Cathedral, the Bishop's Palace, the current Cathedral Manse and the river was used as the drying green for the Bishops and Ministers of Dunblane Cathedral

Nice wee image of a bat on a misericord on the 15th century choir stalls at Dunblane Cathedral #Scotland #BatAppreciationDay 🦇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿