TITLE: Interpretation panel at Roslin Glen
DATE: 2017-02-10
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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During my undergraduate degree I took a course called GeoScience
Outreach. Each student was tasked with creating an outreach project
over the course of the academic year. The brief was very broad,
many students worked in schools or created lesson plans, one of my
friends set up a gardening club at a local primary school, and
another created a set of videos explaining how plants work. I
decided to work with the Midlothian Ranger Service to create some
interpretation materials for Roslin Glen, which is one of my
favourite places to go. Roslin Glen had a long history as an
industrial site before it was a park. Until the 1950s Roslin Glen
was a gunpowder factory, and later also had a carpet factory. I
created an interpretation panel which was installed at the heart of
the former gunpowder mill site, with information on the history of
the ruins scattered around. There were also plans made for a
walking route which would direct visitors to interesting parts of
the site and allow them to scan QR codes to get more information,
but unfortunately this was never installed.
Here are the prototype factsheets which would have been accessible
via QR codes served on the Midlothian Rangers website.
