Learn about Historic Dumfries with Midsteeple Quarter: Stone Heads
Tuesday 2nd February, 2021
One of the buildings we plan to buy with the Crowdfunder is 111 High Street. A lot of people know this building because it has a very unusual feature – three stone heads that look down on all the passers by on the High Street! We don’t know who installed the heads or why. What do you think?
The building used to be the offices of a newspaper, The Dumfries Courier and Herald, which stopped printing in 1939. Before that (when it was number 87, not number 111) it was an ironmongery, a grocery and tea shop, a pharmacy and a painter and glazier’s studio!
Make Your Own High Street Head!
Download the template below to design your own carved head. You could even cut it out to make a mask! Or use playdough, plasticine or moulding clay to make a 3D Head
Perhaps you could make three heads to represent famous Doonhamers? Or to tell a story from Dumfries’s history? Maybe you could make them look like people in your family? We’d love to see your designs. Send pictures to our Facebook page or email info@midsteeplequarter.org.
RECLAIM THE HIGH STREET!
Midsteeple Quarter Crowdfunder now LIVE
Our Crowdfunder to raise money to go towards the purchase of the remaining three High Street buildings within the Midsteeple Quarter is now LIVE! We are urging local people, Midsteeple Quarter followers and local businesses to support us to purchase 109, 111 and 121 High Street. All these buildings, including upper floors have been mostly abandoned and un-used for several years.
Thank you for any support you can give to the project – the future of our town depends on ordinary folk being prepared to make a difference!