It's beginning to look a lot like Scran-ton, paper white as snow!
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Scran database: Scottish Fishermen, William Wilson. Scran ID: 000-000-478-599-C. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
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Until 2008, Scran was a stand-alone charity. From 2008 to 2015 it was managed by The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), and had two arms: The Scran Trust, a charitable arm that provided educational access to its records, and Scran Ltd., its wholly owned trading arm. In October 2015, RCAHMS merged with Historic Scotland to form a new body, Historic Environment Scotland, and Scran likewise followed and merged into Historic Environment Scotland.
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A number of institutions use Scran's open source online tool - Scran-in-a-Box - to provide access to their own data.
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Scran continues to add records to its database from institutions and individuals. Technical innovations include "Create" functions that allow user creation of instant documents, the ability for users to save their favourite records to a password-protected "Stuff" account and share these with other Scran users, mapping functions and enhanced cross searching such as SRU/SRW.
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After months of taking a continuous flow of scran from bottle and breast, the gaps between his gruelly spoonfuls come as a shock.
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Chef Dominic Jack owns and runs the restaurant as a sister restaurant to The Kitchin, using the same style and "nature to plate philosophy". In 2010 he was voted Observer Food Monthly Cook of the Year. In 2013, Kitchin and Jack opened Gastro-pub, The Scran & Scallie, in the Stockbridge area of the city. A 4th Edinburgh venue, Southside Scran, opened in 2018.
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No gin gang remains in operation commercially; the known examples outside museums are either derelict or have been renovated as barn conversions. These are Hutton AHR, Keys farm buildings, Scran horse engine house, Scran Friars Croft Dunbr, Carsegour gingang, Westruther gingang, RCAHM Skildinny, horse engine house Perth and Kinross, Sanday, Muggleswick gin gang, Holbeck farmhouse, Colton farmhouse, Ystum Colwyn farm Meifod, Beamish, and Brewers House Museum.
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Scran - Robertland. Accessed : 2009/11/28 It is thought that Robert Burnes, Uncle to the poet and latterly a resident in Stewarton, was the Robertland estate Land Steward.
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Scran Site. Accessed : 2010-04-09 The nearby Cronberry railway station was originally part of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. The station opened on 9 August 1848, and closed on 10 September 1951.
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One particular initiative is still ongoing. The Gude Cause Media Project (originally called the New Media Group) aims to bring together crowd-sourced photographs and videos of the event, alongside video presentations talking about Scottish women's history and the suffrage movement in Scotland. The crowd-sourced photographs and videos are being hosted by Scran, an online resource for educational use by schools, further education, higher education, libraries, museums, and the public. Scran is part of RCAHMS, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
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Charles and Miriam Frank had four children, Leo, Hannah, Arthur and Morris. Hannah Frank graduated in 1930 from the University of Glasgow, became a teacher and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. A talented artist, she became a sculptor and continued to work in this medium, to critical acclaim, until the eve of her 90th birthday. Arthur FrankA Photograph of Arthur Frank exists in the SCRAN Database Title: Arthur Frank in his optical glass and telescope business, SCRAN ID: 000-000-536-075-C, Resource Rights Holder: The Scotsman Publications Ltd.
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Scran was formed in 1996, and its founding partners were The National Museums of Scotland, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Museums Galleries Scotland and, by invitation, the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum.
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Scran utilises open source software and runs on a cluster server configuration with MySQL and PHP under Linux. The searchable database is over 7GB and total storage including all assets is over 5TB. A number of additional websites are hosted as linked services.
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The Cameron Stone on nearby Airds Moss commemorates the Reverend Richard Cameron and eight other Covenanter soldiers killed in the Battle of Airds Moss against a troop of dragoons in July 1680.Hutton, Page 60 The memorial lies near Muirkirk and was restored in 2005.Scran Site. Accessed : 2010-04-09 The village never had its own church.
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Scran is a Scottish online resource for educational use by the public, schools, further education and higher education. It presents nearly 490,000 (still and moving) images and sounds contributed by museums, galleries, archives and the media. It was established as an educational charity in 1996 and is now part of Historic Environment Scotland, a registered charity and non-departmental government body.
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Monthly music sessions for young people are organised by Bree in Douglas and St John's. This is an informal session that allows young people to improve their skills and become comfortable with musical performance. Bree also competes in the annual Manx Folk Awards, and performs at community and charitable events throughout the Island. Scran is a Manx traditional music group that has grown out of Bree.
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Scran works in partnership with over 300 cultural institutions in Scotland and the rest of the UK who contribute material to the online service. The online learning resource service hosts nearly 490,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. Subscribers can download and reuse these for personal and educational use in accordance with the subscriber licence. The online service also provides a range of tools for users "to do stuff with things they find".
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It consists of young people from the ages 13 to 18 and performs in both English and Manx. Manx harpist Mera Royle who won the BBC Radio 2's Young Folk Award in 2018 is a former member of Bree and member of Scran. Bree released Bree Session Tunes which is a collection of over 80 Manx tunes with chords and counter-melodies. It is primarily based on Bree session tunes that were arranged for young people.
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In its first five years, it engaged in a wide-ranging scheme of grant awards which allowed cultural organisations to digitise parts of their collections to be made available for educational purposes. This was Millennium Commission funded through the UK Lottery. It developed an advanced licensing system, commended by many, in which the institution retained ownership of the digitised assets, but made these available under licence to Scran. There followed further large grant aid partner projects with NOF Digitise funding through the National Library of Scotland.
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In 1999, the Archives participated in Scran (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network), contributing images of exhibits at the 1947 Enterprise Scotland Exhibition. A further 3,000 images were added to the Visual Arts Data Service for free public access in 2001. In 2000, the Design Archives developed a more structured e-learning resource, 'Designing Britain 1945–1975: The Visual Experience of Post-War Society'. A £132,000 grant from Jisc supported the creation of seven modules, each containing around 100 visual records and contextual texts by subject specialists.
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Tinnis on Scran. Accessed : 2010-07-11 It is thought possible that Tinnis Castle was blown up by Lord Fleming, whose father John, 2nd Lord Fleming was murdered by Tweedie of Drumelzier in 1524 as part of a longstanding feud between the two families. In 1592 James VI ordered the demolition of "Tynneis" belonging to James Stewart, with Harden and Dryhope, belonging to Walter Scott, for their part in the Earl of Bothwell's raid on Falkland Palace.David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1585-1592, vol.
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Scran Site Retrieved : 25 March 2011 Ashgrove House stood derelict for many years and became ruinous prior to its demolition by a local farmer. The foresters cottage was located on an estate lane near to the south west of the house and was rebuilt as a bungalow in the 1930s only to be vandalised when unoccupied and it was subsequently demolished as a result. A steading known as Ashinyards was located on the hill however this was demolished and the stones removed. The estate fields were largely planted with turnips and potatoes in the 1940s.
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The buildings were repaired after passing into the ownership of the Wallace family, and for a time became known as Fail Castle; the former monastery was allowed to fall derelict again after the time of the Laird of Whytford (sic).Scran Record. Accessed : 2010-07-02 In the 1860s the lands of Fail were held by Edward Hunter-Blair of Dunskey and Brounehill, second son of Sir D. Hunter-Blair of Blairquhan.Paterson, V.II, Page 758 The ruins consisted at this time of a gable and part of a side-wall of the 'castle'.
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More recently System Simulation has specialised in museum information systems, commercial and archival image library systems, information management and delivery for publishers, news services and professional and commercial organisations. MuseumIndex+, the museum information management system, supports collections management, digital archives and interactive public access. Clients include the British Museum, London Transport Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Getty Images, SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network) and Culture24. They develop content management systems, and CD-ROM/Web products and services for the publishing sector and for information service providers.
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On May 15-6, 1779, Van Cortland's 2nd New York Regiment, Spencer's 5th New Jersey Regiment, and Cilly's 1st New Hampshire Regiment arrived at Learns Tavern in Tannersville and began construction on the trail on May 17. Originally a mountain path, the road was under construction as a military road to assist with moving troops through the area for Sullivan's Expedition. The builders reached the Hungry Hill area on May 23, Tobyhanna Creek on the 24th, Locust Hill (now Locust Ridge) on May 30, and established Camp Fatigue on June 7. The road to the Wyoming Valley (Scran/Wilkes-Barre area) was completed on June 15.
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Although the Isle of Man has a long history of Gaelic music, much of it was only recorded in the 19th century when the Island became a destination for mass tourism and knowledge of traditional music began to diminish. After a long period of decline, punctuated by the work of collectors such as Dr John Clague and Mona Douglas, Manx traditional music saw a resurgence in the 1970s and Manx music and dance is taught in all the schools on the Island. Popular interest has developed into music festivals such as Shennaghys Jiu and Cooish, and groups like Bree and Scran. Shennaghys Jiu was founded in 1998 by Manx musicians James Alexander, Juan Garrett and Andrew Hannan.
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