It still stands and was incorporated into the new theatre which was given his name.Īfter a recent two year refurbishment the centre, comprising Eden Court Theatre and the Bishop’s Palace, houses two theatres, two cinemas, two dance/drama studios and three floors of dressing rooms. The house was built for Bishop Robert Eden in the nineteenth century.
On the banks of the River Ness, a theatre of strikingly modern design was built in 1976 in the grounds of what was once the official residence of the Bishop of Moray. Witnesses has seen the ghosts of a bishop’s wife, who committed suicide, and a child at Eden Court Theatre and Bishop’s Palace in Inverness. Eden Court Theatre and Bishop’s Palace, IV3 5SA Shop workers blame the ghost of a workman injured and killed in the foundry. When the building was moved it seems to have carried with it the ghost of a factory worker injured on the site, for since the shops opened light bulbs and fuses have blown and doors open and close without any human hand. It now fronts Falcon Square and houses outlets for Laura Ashley and Pizza Express. To overcome the problem the old foundry was dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt at a ninety degree angle to its former position and placed to one side of a public piazza named after the foundry. This was refurbished in 1993, and plans to make an extension were held up until 2002 because the listed Falcon Foundry was in the way. It fell into disuse and much of the foundry was destroyed but for a portion that has been listed as a category B building, one of the few that remain of Inverness’ Victorian industrial past.Ī shopping centre was opened nearby in 1983. The railway reached Inverness in 1855 and behind the railway station in 1858 a foundry was opened by John Falconer.
The ghost of an injured worker haunts the Inverness Falconry Foundry.
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