Preparations for Christmas are well underway at Cumberland Close in Kirriemuir, with a series of weekend and late night openings planned. The complex is currently home to three local craft based ventures. The Jewellery Workshop, owned by Gordon Ewan, provides jewellery design, repair, remodelling, and restoration services (www.thejewelleryworkshop.me.uk). Next door is home to Bruce Walker Engravers, catering for the glass engraving, stone carving and monumental masonry market. Completing the trio is Amanda Middleton Designs, a new company specialising in professionally designed tiaras and jewellery (www.amandamiddletondesigns.co.uk).
The units provide workshop and retail space located in a dedicated craft setting. The profile of the Close has recently been enhanced with the addition of the Millennium Sculpture, and several specially crafted memorial flagstones. Both are the work of tenant Bruce Walker.
The flagstones pay tribute to the legacy of eminent Kirriemarians. These include Sir JM Barrie, author of Peter Pan, rock'n roll legend Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC, Sir Charles Lyell, botanist and geologist, and Sir Hugh Munro, author of 'Munro's Tables' – the list of Scottish mountains of over 3,000 feet, - now referred to as the 'Munros'.
During the summer months, the slabs helped boost tourist numbers to the complex and town. In November an additional slab was laid as a permanent memorial to three local recipients of the Victoria Cross.
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