Historic Scotland, the Phoenix Trust, and #7.5m lottery funding will help Stanley Mills, on the banks of the Tay, to rise from the ruins again. Picture: LOUIS FLOOD
A HISTORIC complex of textile mills on the banks of the Tay in Perthshire will be awarded more than #7.5m today from the Heritage Lottery Fund, writes William Tinning.
The Stanley mill complex north of Perth, which is being converted into a museum, flats, workshops, and a variety of community uses, is among 13 projects in Scotland which will share more than #10m in the latest round of heritage awards. Six of Scotland's museums are among those which will be celebrating grants totalling #1.7m, in National Museums Week.
Scottish projects have now received a total of #123m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Historic Scotland and the Phoenix Trust, of which Prince Charles is president, have been awarded #5,127,000 and #2,483,000 respectively towards the restoration of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century textile mills at Stanley.
The mills were one of Scotland's pioneering group of water-powered cotton mills. Phoenix Trust was set up to save the countless historic buildings around Britain which have fallen into disuse.
Historic Scotland will undertake phase three of the restoration work at Stanley Mills in conjunction with Phoenix Trust's development of the East Mills and part of the Mid Mill.
The Scottish Fisheries Museum at Anstruther in Fife has been awarded #664,000 to acquire premises to house the Zulu herring drifter, Research, the last known example of its type.
Lady Victoria Colliery in Newtongrange, Midlothian, will house the Frances Colliery winding engine thanks to a grant of #15,300 to the Scottish Mining Museum. The engine is the last remaining example of its kind in Scotland and, with the impending demolition of the engine room at the Frances, could have been lost to the nation.
Other museum awards include a grant of #995,800 to the National Museums of Scotland to refurbish Gallery 21, the West Hall of the Royal Museum of Scotland.
Other grants include #307,200 to Scottish Natural Heritage to promote Knockan Crag and the Assynt and Coigach area in Sutherland.
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