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30/10/2024

Enter a truly amazing world of enchantment this December with our most magical light event ever!

Be transported into a captivating world of light, sound, and special effects as you explore our 1.2km illuminated woodland trail, filled with spellbinding lights, mesmerising optical effects and enchanting scenes & creatures, all set in the beautiful surroundings of our 70-acre country park.

For a truly unique experience, the other attractions in our park will be illuminated too, including our giant maze, sledge run, crazy golf, jumping pillows and zip slides.

Enjoy some warming food and winter drinks in our coffee shop or hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows at our festive firepits.

Magical Winter Nights will cast a spell on the whole family.

Join us and Feel The Magic!

For full details and to book your tickets head to our website here https://www.brechincastlecentre.co.uk/events/magicalwinternights/

30/10/2024

28/10/2024

We share our county name Angus, with the name of the Cailleach’s fairest son, Aonghus (pronounced the same.) In our folklore, Aonghus is the fairest son of the Cailleach, who rules over Winter.

In our stories Aonghus wakes up at the end of winter, after having dreamt of Brigid, also known as Brìde, who rules over Spring and Summer, or from Beltane to Samhain for those interested in the traditional festivals. You can hear the story of the Cailleach and the changing seasons, written and narrated by local storyteller Eileen Budd, at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hl7tf6.

The story is told in Scots language and if it wasn’t for a previous Forfar resident called Rev John Jamieson we might have lost this language completely. Jamieson was Reverend in Forfar in the 1780’s, around the same time he wrote an extremely popular anti-slavery poem, called the Sorrows of Slavery.

His most famous work was published in 1808, when Rev John Jamieson published the very first Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in two volumes. He had spent years compiling it, travelling up and down the country, taking note of Scots words in the Borders, the Central Belt, the Highlands, the Islands and of course, in Angus!

He recorded multiple dialects too, from the formal Lallans to the iconic Doric. His dictionary was the first complete written record of Scots language, and his dictionaries have helped to preserve Scots as a living, spoken language to this day.

24/10/2024

Christmas By Candlelight comes to Aberdeen's Beach Ballroom! Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th December 2024 at 7:30pm A spectacul...

22/10/2024

🦡 This beautiful chair is displayed in Montrose Museum's latest exhibition, Wee Bessie: The Making of a Storyteller.

So far, many of our visitors have enjoyed having their photo taken in this chair, and we hope to welcome many more!

We'd love to see any photos taken! You can tag us on either Montrose Museum & Art Gallery or ANGUSalive Museums and Galleries ✨

Montrose Museum & Art Gallery is open Wed-Mon 10:30am-4pm.

20/10/2024

19/10/2024

We're open until 7pm this evening for After-hours with the geese! Come along to spend the evening with us birdwatching, and enjoying the sunset. Our gift shop and coffee shop will be open until 7pm too!

Unfortunately we've made the decision to cancel our goose-watching events for tomorrow evening (Sunday 20th October) due to the weather warnings from Storm Ashley.

We'll be closing at our usual 5pm tomorrow, and the Pink Sunset attendees have already been emailed to advise them of the cancellation.

We don't want our visitors and staff to be travelling in dangerous conditions, and it's unlikely the geese will be travelling in the dangerous conditions too! They tend to hunker down in fields overnight during storms, instead of coming back to their roosting sites.

18/10/2024

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16/10/2024

Our Community Screening schedule is out! Highlights include ✨ -

🎠 Our October Dementia Friendly screening is the 1956 fantasy musical film ‘Carousel’. These special screenings feature different throw-back films which those of an older generation will recognise, and are designed to be a safe space for local dementia groups and elderly community members to connect and enjoy a blast from the past. Perfect if you want to plan a visit with a senior family member (cake and cuppy included with ticket). Showing Friday 18th and Monday 21st of October @ 10:30am. 🎟️: https://tickets.montroseplayhouse.co.uk/movie/carousel/

🤖🌳 Discover the magic of belonging, where a robot learns the true meaning of home in DreamWorks Animation’s newest release ‘The Wild Robot’. We have a ‘Closed Caption’ screening scheduled for Friday 18th @ 8:25pm and a ‘Baby & Me’ screening scheduled for Tuesday 22nd @ 11:55am. 🎟️: https://tickets.montroseplayhouse.co.uk/movie/the-wild-robot/

Have a look at our complete list of community showings for the week below. If you need help selecting which of our special screenings is right for you, get in touch with our box office at [email protected] 💙

16/10/2024

This October Holidays, we're excited to offer discounted museum admission to those in receipt of Universal Credit or other qualifying benefits. We know cost can be a barrier to visiting, so we're testing a new way to make heritage accessible to all. 🍁

As we begin to wind up for the season, it's the perfect time to explore our collection of vehicles and enjoy our family-friendly exhibits - and avoid the lousy weather! 🌧

There are a limited number of tickets available each day, and can be booked online or in person from now until the 27th October.

🎟 To find out more and prebook your tickets, click here: https://gtm.digitickets.co.uk/tickets

16/10/2024

🌭🌭🌭 Hot Dog Day is tomorrow 🌭🌭

✅FREE Hot dogs 12-1pm Thursday.
🏠66-68New Wynd
❌please note slight change of time❌

🙏Please give us a like if your popping down to give us an idea of numbers!

16/10/2024

16/10/2024

The woodland mice are all dressed for Halloween and have hidden in the trees to surprise our visitors!

You can meet them and loads of spooky characters (including our scariest monster ever) every day until Sunday 27th October.

Make your way through our fiendish trail, brave the haunted graveyard & vampire's lair, play trick or treat with the woodland mice and explore the ghoulish gallery to search for the 5 purple pumpkins hidden there. Find them all to be entered into our prize draw for a chance to win an annual pass for our Country Park, or 1 of 3 runners-up prizes.

Head to our Pumpkin Patch where you can become Mr Scarecrow, and select your very own pumpkin to take home (pumpkins can be purchased in advance along with your ticket, or on the day at our tills or pumpkin patch).

There’s even more fun to be had in our park with a wide range of activities for all ages, including crazy golf, foot golf, sledge run, go karts, jumping pillows, double zip line, viking swing and so much more.

For full details and to book your tickets head over to our website here https://www.brechincastlecentre.co.uk/halloween-treasure.../

Are you ready for the most fun Halloween ever?

16/10/2024

What a dreich day it is, it’s not stopped raining! Something to brighten your day, a stunning red campion flower in full bloom, taken last week when the sun was warm and the skies blue!

It really tickled me to read that a recent Scottish Government poll found the word ‘dreich’ to be the nations favourite word! A great catch all word for doomy, gloomy, wet, dull, dismal, dreary weather :-) Also did you know the scots have 400 words to describe snow?

What’s your favourite?

16/10/2024

Remember! WE ARE STILL OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK FOR OCTOBER!

10am to 4pm!

CAFE / CASTLE / GARDENS / SHOP !

COFFEE - HISTORY - WALK

All welcome!

16/10/2024

FOLKLORE and FAUNA

Tis the spooky season!

Did you know Rowan Trees are said to have magical powers of protection! People used to plant them in their gardens and outside their doors to ward off evil spirits!

There is also evidence that people used to wear the berries in their hair to protect themselves!

16/10/2024

🎃PUMPKIN PATCH🎃

Our pumpkin patch is open everyday in October from 10am to 4pm! 👻

All included in our Hay & Play ticket, it’s undercover with spooky photo opportunities, crafts and games! 🎃

Book tickets online in advance or just turn up on the day 🎟️

*pumpkins and gourds paid for separately! 🎃

16/10/2024

Here are the details of the menu items available on the promotion.

16/10/2024

Following on from we have another tiny treasure from the Arbroath Signal Tower Museum. These wonderfully carved objects are seam smoothers. They were used in sailmaking to smooth seams on the ship's sails. These particular tools belonged to Mr. Chas Jeffrey, who was the sailmaker onboard the Matilda, one of the last vessels operating out of Arbroath. We also have a wonderful model of the Matilda on display upstairs in Gallery 6 which has a maritime trade focus. All our tiny and not so tiny treasures weave together to form our town's unique, rich and diverse heritage, painting a picture of how Arbroath has developed over the centuries.

You can visit everyday except Tuesdays from 10:30am - 4pm with last admissions at 3:30pm. Free admission though donations are welcome. Dog friendly too 🐾

16/10/2024