10K is just start of the fun in Balfron
There’s no need to be bored in Balfron this Sunday.
As well as being Balfron 10K day from 11am, featuring its new route through the village, it is also the busiest day in the village’s Greek Thomson Bicentenary Festival.
To coincide with this Balfron Library is openings its free Greek Thomson Exhibition for visitors and locals alike from 11am until 3pm.
The photographic display follows the life and work of the great architect through his iconic Glasgow buildings such as Holmwood and St Vincent Street Church.
Internationally acclaimed architect Greek Thomson is credited with designing some of Scotland’s most significant buildings, particularly in Glasgow, such as the St Vincent Street Church and the Egyptian Halls.
He was born in 1817 in Endrick Cottage, the 17th child of John Thomson, bookkeeper at the Ballindalloch Cotton Works. In 2010 villagers installed a commemorative plaque in the village.
To celebrate Thomson’s staunch Christian beliefs the Balfron churches have got together to organise Cornerstone Praise – an ecumenical event of song, prayer and reflection taking place in Balfron Church at 5pm.
There will also be plenty of activities to occupy the children on Sunday including at Ballochruin Farm, where the Fairy Woodland Experience is open at weekends from April.
Balfron Community Singers’spring concert in Balfron Church will bring the curtain down on the Greek Thomson festivities on Saturday, April 29, and will include a newlycommissioned pipe tune titled‘Alexander Greek Thomson’, written by Daniel McDermott.