Dunblane.Info
The page for Dunblane's community website. Historic Cathedral City, postal address Perthshire, in Stirling Council area with Falkirk postcode
www.dunblane.info
- Reposted by Dunblane.Info#OnThisDay 1685 Scotland's King Charles II died. He appointed Robert Leighton as Bishop of Dunblane. R L Mackie said "saintly Robert Leighton…it mattered little to him whether a man was a Presbyterian or an Episcopalian; the important thing was that he should be a Christian.”
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoEnjoy singing? Want to make music in our amazing building? Dunblane Cathedral Choir is currently seeking new members. If you’re interested, get in touch through our webform for more details. **Scholarships are available for students 16-25** forms.churchdesk.com/f/B133GfmnM
- Dunblane Centre February School Break activities
- Meeting of Dunblane Community Council will be held on Wed 4 Feb at 7pm at Dunblane High School
- Randolph Hill Nursing Homes Group Recruitment Open Day on Thu 12 Feb at Randolph Hill Nursing Home in Dunblane. Drop in 10am-4pm. Vacancies for Nursing staff, Care Assistants, Domestic Assistants & Reception. owene@randolphhill.com for further information www.randolphhill.com/randolph-hil...
- Dementia Friendly Dunblane & Stirling Carers Centre are working in partnership to launch new monthly Carers’ Group for unpaid carers (those who look after family member, friend or neighbour needing support) which starts Wednesday in Dunblane’s Braeport Centre, 2pm-3.30pm
- Dunblane New Golf Club has vacancy for bar staff Apply by contacting nicki.regan@dngc.co.uk
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoSchool Counsellor - Dunblane High School - 101683
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoA Huge Thank You to Claire and the team at The Tin Cafe Dunblane for their incredible donation of £950, raised during their quiz night in November. Your continued support means so much to us and makes a real difference in the work we do.
- Reposted by Dunblane.Info#OnThisDay 1856 Queen Victoria introduced Victoria Cross, country’s highest military decoration. In 2018 panel was unveiled at birthplace in Dunblane 1897 of Major James Palmer Huffam, recipient of Victoria Cross - centenary of his act of valour en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H...
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoDunblane Museum is looking for more people to join our superb group of volunteers. Our visitors from all over the world enjoy the warm, friendly welcome from our volunteers. Email either curator@dunblanemuseum.org.uk or Trish.museum@gmail.com
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoHear Max & Murray encouraging you to consider purchasing a bookmark from Dunblane's historic Leighton Library - "these pretty place-holders will power up your perusal with pictures of the library...” Max & Murray are members of 25th Stirling (Dunblane) Boys' Brigade, volunteering at Leighton Library
- Dunblane Centre February break activities Friday 13th February Ages 5-7 Dance & Craft 12:30-2:30pm £10 dunblane-centre.sumupstore.com/product/danc... Friday 13th February Ages 8+ Dance & Theatre 3-5:30pm £12 dunblane-centre.sumupstore.com/product/danc...
- Here’s what’s on at Dunblane’s Sheep in Wolf's Clothing Brewery this February Dunblane, FK15 0EW (next to the M&S)
- Dunblane Centre first social dancing evening of the year is tonight Bring your own bottle and pay a donation on the door to enjoy a night of dancing
- Classes at Base Fitness, Braeport, Dunblane Details & booking: www.base-fitness.co.uk
- Upcoming events at Dunblane Library
- Beginner-friendly painting demonstration art class Sat 7 Feb at Creative Dunblane To register complete Sign Up Form forms.gle/emKSdmZ4JiWB...
- 2026 Doune & Dunblane Show applications now open for Trade Stands and Craft Tent Application Forms available from: www.douneanddunblaneshow.co.uk/entry-forms 📅 Saturday 4 July 2026 📍 Keir Mains, Dunblane, FK15 9NU
- Dunblane Community Co:working Hub - email for details: coworking@creativedunblane.info 🌐 creativedunblane.info 📧 info@creativedunblane.info
- Yoga classes at Dunblane’s Braeport Centre
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- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoAustrian-themed coffee morning in support of @dunblanebb.bsky.social on Sat 31 Jan 9.30am-12.30pm in Dunblane Cathedral Hall
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- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoHear Max & Murray encouraging you to consider becoming a Friend of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library Find out more here: www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/friends Max and Murray are members of 25th Stirling (Dunblane) Boys’ Brigade, volunteering in support of Duke of Edinburgh Award
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- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoRobert Burns was born #OnThisDay 1759. Here’s learning resource for “To a Haggis” by Robert Burns, as it appeared in Leighton Library’s 1787 Edinburgh First Edition of "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" by Robert Burns, who visited Dunblane that year www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/robert-burns
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoDunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1787 Edinburgh First Edition of "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" by Robert Burns, who visited Dunblane same year, 1787. This contained additional 17 poems & 5 new songs compared to 1786 Kilmarnock Edition
- Reposted by Dunblane.Info☕️ 💬 All are welcome to drop in for a friendly cuppa and a chat in The Well in Dunblane Cathedral Hall, normally open Monday-Friday 10.30am-12.30pm for coffees and teas
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoAll are welcome to Café at The Well in Dunblane Cathedral Hall on Wednesday 28 January 12.30pm-2pm Homemade Soup, Desserts, Tea & Coffee By Donation landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4184...
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoA Sunday afternoon walk in Dunblane.
- Registration is open for Dunblane Junior tennis camp starting Monday 9 February : clubspark.lta.org.uk/DunblaneLTC/...
- Faery Bridge Closure 28th to 29th January for tree works
- Dunblane New Golf Club new Flexible Membership Contact secretary@dngc.co.uk
- Reposted by Dunblane.Info☕️ 💬 All are welcome to drop in for a friendly cuppa and a chat in The Well in Dunblane Cathedral Hall, normally open Monday-Friday 10.30am-12.30pm for coffees and teas (note that the Well will be closed on Monday 19 January)
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoAll are welcome to Café at The Well in Dunblane Cathedral Hall on Wednesday 21 January 12.30pm-2pm Homemade Soup, Desserts, Tea & Coffee By Donation landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4184...
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoMusic and Memories, for anyone who’d enjoy this time of fellowship, is held at 2pm on Friday 23 January in Dunblane Cathedral Hall landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4391...
- Reposted by Dunblane.Info#OnThisDay 1900 prominent art essayist John Ruskin died. Small, unusually shaped, window above west end of Dunblane Cathedral, for over century has been known as Ruskin window as he visited Dunblane Cathedral & in his writings & lecture admired beauty & craftsmanship of it
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- Book appointment to give blood at the Victoria Hall, Dunblane on Monday 2 February, online at scotblood.co.uk or call 0345 90 90 999
- Dunblane Free Church launching fund-raising drive to fix church roof & extend manse for congregational fellowships - email dunblanefreechurch@gmail.com www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
- Reposted by Dunblane.Info2/3 The Baptism of Christ, 1923 by Douglas Strachan in Dunblane Cathedral. Strachan, a presbyterian, was never comfortable with images of saints, but he excelled in narrative scenes like this. He was the major Scottish glass artist of the first half of the 20th Century.
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- Dunblane Post Office vacancy - applications close Friday 16th January
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoAs it's #HeritageTreasuresDay today do please share about your favourite recollection from Dunblane's history, or a memory from Dunblane Museum visit, & encourage others to follow us here Dunblane Museum is closed for the winter and will reopen 1 April #HeritageTreasuresDay
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoIt’s tonight! 🎵 RING HANDBELLS with Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers 🆓 FREE TASTER SESSION 📍 Dunblane Cathedral Halls 🗓️ SUN 11 JAN 🕠 CHILDREN aged 8-12 - 5.30pm - 6pm 🕡 TEENS - 6.30pm - 7.15pm 🕡 ADULTS - 6.30pm - 7.15pm 📝 REGISTER: 🔗 tinyurl.com/HandbellTast...
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- Reposted by Dunblane.Info☕️ 💬 All are welcome to drop in for a friendly cuppa and a chat in The Well in Dunblane Cathedral Hall, normally open Monday-Friday 10.30am-12.30pm for coffees and teas (note that the Well will be closed on Monday 19 January)
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoAll are welcome to Café at The Well in Dunblane Cathedral Hall on Wednesday 14 January 12.30pm-2pm Homemade Soup, Desserts, Tea & Coffee By Donation landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4184...
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoAll are welcome to the Coffee Morning in support of Christian Aid, in Dunblane Cathedral Hall on Saturday 17 January 10am-12 noon landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/3970...
- Learning Italian beginner class in Dunblane. Email hello@italianforall.co.uk
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoIt's #NationalTechnologyDay today, celebrating technology impacting our lives. Find out more about Dunblane Museum on the website at www.DunblaneMuseum.org.uk or follow Dunblane Museum on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, X or YouTube (please encourage friends & family to do the same)
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- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoThese big names learnt a thing or two while at school in Dunblane and Bridge of Allan.
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoIt’s this Sunday! 🎵 RING HANDBELLS with Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers 🆓 FREE TASTER SESSION 📍 Dunblane Cathedral Halls 🗓️ SUN 11 JAN 🕠 CHILDREN aged 8-12 - 5.30pm - 6pm 🕡 TEENS - 6.30pm - 7.15pm 🕡 ADULTS - 6.30pm - 7.15pm 📝 REGISTER: 🔗 tinyurl.com/HandbellTast...
- Reposted by Dunblane.Info#OnThisDay 1776 Thomas Paine published his "Common Sense - addressed to the inhabitants of America" - 47-page pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain to people in Thirteen Colonies of North America. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1791 edition of this…/👇
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoIt’s #BrailleDay today as #OnThisDay 1809 French educator Louis Braille, who invented Braille, was born. Here's "Dunblane Museum" in Braille #WorldBrailleDay
- Reposted by Dunblane.Info☕️ 💬 All are welcome to drop in for a friendly cuppa and a chat in The Well in Dunblane Cathedral Hall, open Monday-Friday 10.30am-12.30pm for coffees and teas.
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoAll are welcome to Café at The Well in Dunblane Cathedral Hall on Wednesday 7 January 12.30pm-2pm Homemade Soup, Desserts, Tea & Coffee By Donation landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4184...
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoMusic and Memories, for anyone who’d enjoy this time of fellowship, is held at at 2pm on Friday 9 January in Dunblane Cathedral Hall landing.churchdesk.com/en-gb/e/4391...
- Reposted by Dunblane.Info#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 23 is #WinterWonderland. A snowy scene featuring Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library by artist Jane Dunbar, one of the Volunteer Guides, is available from the Leighton Library Online shop as a tea-towel, bag, mug, coaster and placemat leighton-library-shop.co.uk
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoHappy New Year from Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library 🚶The Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups - get in touch with Visits Co-ordinator Alastair MacDonald via this link www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/members
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoToday is #ScienceFictionDay. Doctor Who, world's longest running science fiction drama, first broadcast 1963 by BBC, was co-created by Dunblane-born Donald Wilson (1910-2002) #NationalScienceFictionDay Dunblane Museum is closed for the winter, re-opening on 1 April
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoIt’s #ScienceFictionDay today. Some suggest science fiction can be traced back to the novel “New Atlantis” by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) in which is described a utopian vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge. Dunblane's Historic Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of "New Atlantis"
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoIf you’ve always wanted the chance to ring handbells, then here’s the ideal opportunity for you! 🎵 RING HANDBELLS with Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers 🆓 FREE TASTER SESSION 📍 Dunblane Cathedral Halls 🗓️ SUN 11 JAN 📝 REGISTER: 🔗 tinyurl.com/HandbellTast...
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoToday is #ScienceFictionDay. French author Jules Verne is widely regarded as father of science fiction. In 1859, in research for his book "Voyage à Reculons," he travelled on then newly opened Dunblane, Doune and Callander railway line. #NationalScienceFictionDay
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoHappy New Year, from Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers Come and ring with us in 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/HandbellTast... #Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoHappy New Year, from Dunblane Museum Dunblane Museum is closed until the spring, reopening on 1 April #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow
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- Reposted by Dunblane.InfoThe Gwen Mayor Trust, a charity established in memory of Dunblane Primary School teacher Gwen Mayor, has announced the nursery and primary school arts, sports, culture and community projects it is providing funding support for this year. #EISNews eis.org.uk/latest-news/gwenmay…
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