Historic Scotland has announced various projects across Scotland are to benefit from a £1.6 million grant investment.

A Glasgow cemetery which forms a part of Scotland's Jewish heritage, the City Observatory Complex in Edinburgh and a rare locomotive turntable in Aberdeen are amongst the recipients.

The grants are part of Historic Scotland's Building Repairs Grants Scheme.

Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop announced the latest award recipients at Castle Mill Works, the former North British Rubber Company offices in Edinburgh, which itself has been awarded £500,000 as part of the scheme.


Ms Hyslop said: "This scheme helps to protect and promote, as well as transform and bring back into use, some of Scotland's most historically and architecturally significant buildings."

The scheme welcomes applications three times a year, and is a competitive process which takes account of the wider benefits that a repair project may provide such as community engagement, promoting sustainable economic and rural development, reinforcing local identity and the development of traditional skills.

Recipients of the funding as are follows:

• Castle Mill Works, the Former North British Rubber Factory in Edinburgh (£500,000).

• Westmuir Street School in Glasgow (£500,000).

• St Andrews Harbour in St Andrews (£22,600).

• The Engine shed and associated turntable in Ferryhill, Aberdeen (£298,158).

• City Observatory on Edinburgh's Calton Hill (£233,280).

• The Fountains and Gatepiers in Alexandra Park, Glasgow (£45,000).

• The Jewish Enclosure within the Necropolis, Glasgow (£13,125).

• The Stovehouse in Auchincruive, South Ayrshire (£18,200).

(LM)