It’s a chance to venture into those places you pass all the time but never go inside.
Edinburgh’s Doors Open Days are next weekend - Saturday and Sunday, September 26 and 27. More than 100 buildings in the Capital are taking part, offering visitors a glimpse behind the scenes.
Doors Open is Scotland’s largest free festival of culture, architecture and heritage. It happens on different dates in different places. Midlothian and West Lothian have already had theirs. East Lothian’s falls this weekend, the same as Edinburgh’s.
This year’s theme, Heritage at Risk: Revive, Resist, Reimagine, invites participating venues and visitors to explore how Edinburgh’s built heritage is being protected, adapted for new uses, and reimagined for the future.
We’ve already featured some of the buildings in the Capital which will be opening their doors to the public:
Scroll through the 21 buildings featured here and decide which ones you want to visit.
And look out for more to come.
21. Raimes Clark & Co Ltd and Lindsay & Gilmour head office
The Georgian villa of James Smith, the merchant who laid out Smith’s Place in Leith in 1814, has belonged to manufacturing chemists Raimes Clark & Co Ltd since 1835. It is home to the Head Office of Lindsay & Gilmour Pharmacies and remains a very fine surviving example of a Leith merchant’s house., with many original features like the oval central staircase, Adam fireplaces and the oldest surviving walled garden in Leith. Lindsay & Gilmour Pharmacy are celebrating their bicentenary this year, while Raimes Clark dates back even further to 1816. In addition to tours of the building there will be displays of old pharmaceutical artefacts, documents and equipment. Address: 19, Smiths Place, EH6 8NU. Open: Sunday, September 27, 10.30am-4pm. | Google