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  The Colinton Tunnel - preserving history and heritage

Have you seen our brilliant new signage?

       

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This enchanting mural in a Victorian railway tunnel was created to bring visitors to Colinton and to make people smile - it's photogenic too!

Here's some recent coverage:

Here’s a great video, accompanying the track “Stories”, composed and played by the talented Vincent Gauchot for his forthcoming third album, “Experiences”

Visit our "Progress" page, where you'll find a new video, created by Bob Bell of the Colinton Local History Society, who kindly offered to record the progress of our project - thanks Bob!

STV's Laura Alderman made this great piece, which was broadcast on the Six O'clock News on 21.10.2020

We'll be adding more of Laura's work soon!

 

Here's a magical fly-through and documentary, created by the talented Dode Allen:

Well worth a read is this blog by our friends and supporters at Sustrans ArtRoots Fund:

https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/news/2020/october/national-cycle-network-route-75-outside-edinburgh-transformed-by-colinton-tunnel-community-mural/

.. and you'll enjoy this article by Jacob Farr, published in the Edinburgh Evening News on 20th October 2020:

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/derelict-colinton-tunnel-transformed-beautiful-140m-mural-honours-local-area-3009648

Read the RLS poem: http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/railway-carriage

Our talented art team, led by Chris Rutterford,have transformed a dark and scary tunnel into a safe and welcoming home for Scotland's largest historical mural; celebrating the industrial, social, artistic and literary history of our community. See FAQ page for directions to the tunnel.

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Thank you to everyone who has donated to the project - we really appreciate your generosity.  If you haven't donated yet, please consider doing so and don't forget that Gift Aid can add £12.50 to every £50 that you give.  See the "How can you help" link or just click the red button below to go to Virgin Money Giving:

Huge thanks go to our generous sponsors, who include lots of people in our local community and:

                     

                       

We are also supported by a grant from the Virgin Money Foundation

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