The direction of travel
BOATHOUSES, South Esplanade West, Aberdeen, 10am-4pm, Saturday, 13 September These distinctive A-frame buildings are home to Aberdeen Boat Club, established in 1865 and one of the UK's oldest rowing clubs. The club and
Aberdeen Asset Schools' boathouse will open their doors as well as running a regatta, so you can see how these buildings work.
SCOTTISH VINTAGE BUS MUSEUM, Lathalmond, Fife, 12:30-5pm, Sunday, 7 September As well as providing a free bus between many sites in this year's Fife Doors Open Day programme, the museum opens its own doors. It has over 170 vintage buses. Visitors will be transported around the site in a vintage bus, where it will stop at a workshop, and show the process of restoration. Site tours at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FLIGHT, East Fortune, East Lothian, tours at 11am, 12 noon, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm, Sunday, 14 September From the Wright Brothers to Concorde, this museum covers the full history of how people have taken to the skies. The airfield was an important base during the two world wars and holds a huge collection of aircraft, engines, rockets, photographs, flying clothing, instruments and propellers. Highlights have to be the early "pioneer" craft – and of course Concorde. "Behind the Hangar Door" tours run through the day.
INCHINNAN BASCULE BRIDGE, Renfrewshire, 11am, 1pm and 3pm, Saturday, 13 September A "bascule bridge" is a movable bridge allowing boats to pass underneath using counterweights and balances. It is the only one still operational and grade-A listed. It will be raised three times during the day.
M74 ARCHAEOLOGICAL DETECTIVES, Scotland Street School, Glasgow, 11am-4pm, Saturday 6, Tuesday 9 and Sunday, 14 September If you've been wondering what's been discovered along the path of the new M74 motorway, bring the family and become an archaeological detective. The archaeologists have uncovered many sites relating to Glasgow's industrial past – factories, buried tenements and a mill. There is a "simulated dig" based on area's history and plenty of other family-friendly activities to get stuck into.
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