Creating a stink For upwards of 130 years – from 1839 to 1973 – Biggar Gasworks made coal-gas for the town and surrounding district. It was one of the first small-town gasworks to open in Scotland, and among the last to close. Not long ...
Biggar Museum Trust oversees six of the finest small museums in Scotland, covering several centuries of Scottish history. Included in these are Moat Park Heritage Centre, Gladstone Court, Brownsbank Cottage, Greenhill Covenanters House, Biggar Gaswor ...
Carmichael Visitor Centre and Farm Shop opened in 1994 and features the former Edinburgh Wax Model Collection depicting Scotland's millennium from Queen Margaret and Macbeth through to the present day. Scotland's story told by very realistic 'living' ...
Coulter Motte is a good example of a Norman castle mound, which would have been surmounted by a palisade and timber tower. ...
Here at the Moat Park visitors can see a series of detailed scale models depicting archaeological sites as they would have been seen at the time of their use. These models range from the earliest sites such as ritual henges and burials to the range o ...