17 Feb
Building work | Wall Cladding
Biggar - ML12
Enquiry from: Mandy D
Start Date: Immediate
Quote for UPVC replacement soffits, facials and UPVC cladding on part of house and garage
Biggar
Biggar is a community and former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is positioned in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark and also Peebles, and also therefore Biggar offers a wide rural area. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 quote it had actually grown to 2320. The community was once offered by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station as well as signal box are still standing but housing has been improved the line running west from the station and the railway running eastern from the station is a public walkway to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The brand-new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened in 2015 and the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas operates in Scotland. Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only long-term creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. Biggar was the birthplace of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence and also yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is established right here. The community holds a yearly arts celebration, the Biggar Little Event. The community has commonly held a big bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate representative John Riley, encouraged a team of Biggar locals to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the stated purpose of ending up being the very first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the project, covered in both neighborhood and nationwide media, occurred at the community's annual eco online forum in May 2007. The team has actually formed relate to the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team working toward carbon neutral condition for the community. This town has two schools, one primary, as well as one second. The senior high school, Biggar High School, also confesses pupils from bordering villages as well as villages. Biggar Primary is a small school, situated on South Back Road, with a current roll of 238 students. Primary students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The Secondary school, located on John's Financing and also adjacent to the key, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the event requires it. The yearly main Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing area.
