Burns Day 25-01-2011 saw the Artizans play host to a group of English visitors. Representing communities as diverse as Morpeth in the North, Birmingham in the Midlands and London in the South East the visitors were guests of Renton Community Development Trust on a fact-finding mission to discover how the village had changed over recent years.

A party of Artizans were on hand to greet their guests to a musical background of a pipe medley from Nicola Gray of Dumbarton District Pipe Band.

Within the Heritage Centre the group were given a brief history of the development of the KRBHC from Duncan Thomson and Paul Hunter. Elspeth Crocket and Jeanette Ryan were on hand to help with questions and suggestions as to how local history can help to raise the esteem and the profile of any community.

Tommy Crocket