FUNDRAISING EVENT
Dr Neil's Garden will be open on our behalf on Saturday 23 and
Sunday 24 May 2009, from 2.00 to 5.00 pm
Look around this unique loch-side garden created from a wasteland behind
Duddingston Kirk, beside Thomson's Tower where Raeburn is said to have kept his
equipment while he was painting the Reverend Robert Walker, and where Sir Walter Scott wrote "Heart of Midlothian"
Plant sales, children's activities, teas with home baking by the ladies of the
Kirk.
Henry Raeburn's portrait of the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingstone
Loch 1784. "The Skating Minister"
Sunday Herald 15th April 1999 about the garden
Curling on the Loch
More about the garden on
Duddingston Kirk's website
Photographs of the garden from 2007 on the
Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre facebook page
