📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 12 is #FestiveClothes. Here’s the portrait of Robert Leighton which is in Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library given a transformation into the garb of Father Christmas 🎅

🚶Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 11 is #DarkNights. Here’s Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library lit up in dark for parade, opening recent Dunblane Christmas Extravaganza, going past Gold Postbox

🚶Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 10 is #ChristmasCards. Wintry Christmas card scene of Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library is available from online shop as a tea-towel, mug, coaster and placemat leighton-library-shop.co.uk

🚶Leighton Library now closed for winter, except by special arrangement

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 9 is #Nativity. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1641 edition of sermons of English bishop Lancelot Andrewes with his 1622 Christmas Day sermon about first nativity, which T S Eliot quoted for opening of his poem "Journey of the Magi"

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 8 is #FestiveFood. It’s too late to get them now, but hear Max & Murray sharing about festive food biscuits which were made in shape of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library.

Leighton Library Online shop for other gift ideas leighton-library-shop.co.uk

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 7 is #star. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has books about stars including a 1702 first edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" (first textbook on gravitational principals & astronomy) by Scottish mathematician & astronomer David Gregory.../👇

Many thanks to everyone who supported Leighton Library coffee morning this morning by coming along & enjoying coffee, tea, pancakes & chat, & making purchases from stalls. Thanks to all who provided home baking, books, served tea & coffee, looked after stalls, set up & cleared tables. Thank you!

If not able to be there, to support Dunblane's historic Leighton Library donations can be made online:
🔗 leightonlibrary.org.uk

Leighton Library is closed for winter (until reopens in spring), except for specially arranged visits for groups - get in touch if to arrange a visit

IT’S TODAY - SO COME ON DOWN!
☕️ Coffee Morning in support of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
🗓️ Sat 6 Dec
🕙 10am-12 noon
⛪️ Dunblane Cathedral Hall
💷 Entry £3
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/…🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups

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/…(probably not graceful skating or skiing, but perhaps annual winter sport of just trying to stay upright when out shopping!)

☕️ Support us at our Christmas Coffee Morning Sat 6 Dec 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall…/

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 6 is #WinterSports. Available to purchase at coffee morning today, Sat 6 Dec, in support of Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library are these beautiful winter scene cards. Perhaps figures depicted are about slide down the snow-covered street…/👇

Hear Max & Murray sharing about beautiful tea-towels for Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, available at Coffee Morning on Sat 6 Dec 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall, as well as Leighton Library Online shop leighton-library-shop.co.uk.

Hear Max & Murray sharing about 2026 calendar for Dunblane's historic Leighton Library. Available for £10, while stocks last, at Coffee Morning on Sat 6 Dec 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall.

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

/…🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 5 is #Tree. Here’s tree opposite Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library, & view beneath tree towards library

☕️ Support us at our Christmas Coffee Morning on Sat 6 Dec 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall
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Leighton Library, Dunblane | Friends

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☕️ You can support us at our Christmas Coffee Morning on Saturday 6 December 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall

🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups

YouTube video by Scotland History Tours Libraries and Torture

Here’s Bruce Fummey encouraging you to become a new Friend of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library - your invaluable support of £30 a year helps to fund the annual running costs of the Library

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Leighton Library, Dunblane | Contact Us

/…☕️ You can support us at our Christmas Coffee Morning on Saturday 6 December 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall

🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/members

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 3 is #BoxesAndBows. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library has ribbons tied in bows around some books which have fragile bindings, and some restored books in protective boxes to protect the bindings…/👇

Leighton Library, Dunblane | Contact Us

/…🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/members

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 2 is #FestiveLights. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library looks lovely basking in the glow of the festive lights on the tree opposite

☕️ You can support us at our Christmas Coffee Morning on Saturday 6 December 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall
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Leighton Library, Dunblane | Contact Us

/…🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/members

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 1 is #presents. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library shop has host of present ideas, from place-mats & coasters, to mugs, tote-bags & more

☕️ Support us at our Christmas Coffee Morning on Sat 6 Dec 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall
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/…☕️ You can support us at our Christmas Coffee Morning on Sat 6 Dec 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall

#Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

/…visitor welcome, engagement, & interpretation space for visitors to enjoy learning about books in collection & history of Library, & life of its benefactor Robert Leighton & turbulent times in which he lived. Please donate to help make happen: www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/undercroft-d...
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#Museum30 theme 30 is #WhyMuseums. Strapline for proposed development of Undercroft of Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library is “A Portal to Pages of the Past providing Perspective to the Present” - encapsulating why we exist, & what we hope to achieve in creating accessible…/👇

🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is closed for winter after Sat 29 Nov, except for opening by special arrangement for groups leightonlibrary.org.uk/members

☕️ You can also support us at our Christmas Coffee Morning on Saturday 6 December 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall