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Granny Paxton revisits the Black Bull Close

Thanks to everyone who came along to our Community Day on May 18th. The weather wasn’t on our side but we had a great day regardless with lots of people stopping by to hear more about our plans for the Black Bull Close buildings. You can read more about those plans here. On a very…

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We got plans…..

Thanks again to those of you who braved a rather dreich Saturday on 18 May to come along to our Community Day. We had ordered sunshine but it seemed to have arrived a day earlier than requested. The joys of outdoor events during a Scottish summer! Despite the greyness we had some great conversations around…

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Black Bull Close Update

Restoration of the Black Bull Close continues in Dunbar, with one of the buildings now playing host to a stunning new chimney, painstakingly built by The Ridge Foundations team of Trainee Masons under the watchful eye of Masonry Trainer, Andy Stockdale.  The newly lime-washed chimney is fully functioning and will one day feel the heat…

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Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be cheerful indeed….woop woop and huge thanks to Heritage Lottery Fund who have confirmed their further support of The Ridge and the Black Bull Close project with the announcment of funding for the second phase of development. Hip Hip Hooray! Last year (2018), we completed the the Clearance of the Close buildings making…

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Announcing continued support from the Architectural Heritage Fund

We are super delighted to announce continued funding from the Architectural Heritage Fund. This support allows us to push on with Phase 2 of the development stage of the Black Bull Close project. The funding will be used to cover the costs of professional fees such as planning, archaeology and excavation as well as contributing…

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We want to hear from you.

A big shout out to you all, so please get involved. The Ridge requires at last 100 members to be signed up to our Charitable Body, The Ridge SCIO. If we manage to sign up members for our SCIO we will be in a position to go to the Scottish Land Fund to help secure our…