Like many other events this year, due to COVID-19 restrictions, Doors Open Days 2020 has gone digital. It is offering people the chance to explore Scotland’s buildings through virtual tours, webinars, exhibitions, audio trails and other online offerings .
This weekend, 12-13 September, is Ayrshire Doors Open Days and we are delighted that Kyle and Carrick Civic Society have added Seafield House to the list of buildings on offer.
The link to our digital exhibition, Arrol’s Seafield House Revealed, will go live from the Doors Open Days Seafield House page at the weekend. This will give people the opportunity to tour the house, as it was in Sir William Arrol’s time, through the photographs of Bedford Lemere & Co. held by Historic Environment Scotland. The page also displays the beautiful watercolour painting of Seafield House by acclaimed artist Gerard Stamp which was part of SAVE Britain’s Heritage exhibition on endangered buildings in June last year.
There are lots of other buildings with digital offerings too, so settle down with a cuppa this weekend and explore what Ayrshire has to offer from the comfort of your armchair.
Wonderful, thank you so much, and congratulations on a great virtual exhibition. Great to see all the images form Canmore/HES too.
All the very best,
Miles
Dr Miles Oglethorpe | Head of Industrial Heritage | Conservation Directorate
Historic Environment Scotland | Ãrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1SH, SCOTLAND
Thank you Miles. The photographs are amazing and tell us so much about Seafield House that wouldn’t be known without them. We are very grateful to HES for permission to use them.