7 Deadly Pins: Jack Lowden – gallery
All the images and artwork attached to this map in one place.
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Nauticus in Leith
Jack Lowden's Leith local, where the owner knows every bar in Edinburgh.Nauticus opened in Leith just before lockdown, and quickly became Jack Lowden's local. He puts the credit firmly with the man behind the bar.
"I used to live in Leith and this place had just opened. Kyle, who runs the gaff, knows everything there is to know about drink and food. If you ever need recommendations for places to eat and drink in Edinburgh, just go into Nauticus, get a pint, and talk to Kyle. There's no one better in the know than him. They also had a handy hatch open for pints during lockdown."
Jack also points the way to Bennets Bar near the Kings Theatre. Maps built into the tables, a serious whisky selection, and a long-standing myth about a secret door that actors slipped through between performances.
Address: 142 Duke St, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 8HR
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Cameo Picturehouse
Jack Lowden's Edinburgh independent, with a quiet Slow West connection.An independent cinema in Edinburgh that has held a place in Jack Lowden's career through both a milestone screening and a quietly cinematic backstory.
"Very characterful, cool independent cinema. Holds many memories for me, one in particular being where we had the screening of Mary Queen of Scots after a reception at the Castle with the then First Minister. Magical day. Also, director John McLean used to work in there before he directed Slow West."
Address: 38 Home Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9LZ
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Kinneuchar Inn
A 17th-century Fife pub Jack Lowden picks for a day out from Edinburgh.A 17th-century pub in the Kingdom of Fife, deep enough into the countryside to feel like a proper escape from Edinburgh, but close enough for a day trip. Jack keeps it brief.
"Beautiful 17th Century pub in the Kingdom. Amazing food. A great day trip from Edinburgh."
Kilconquhar sits a little inland from the East Neuk fishing villages, with the inn anchoring its small main street.
Address: 9-11 Main St, Kilconquhar, Leven, KY9 1LF
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Scorrybreac
In Jack Lowden's view, the best restaurant in the world.An intimate restaurant on Skye that Jack Lowden ranks above any other in the world. The setting is a terraced house in Portree, the dining room small enough to feel personal, the cooking remarkable enough to hold its own against that claim.
"In my opinion, best restaurant in the world. It's basically in an old terraced house in Portree, feels like you're eating in someone's front room. And the food is BEYOND. The waiter volunteers for the local lifeboat, and when we ate there he had personally caught the fish we were eating that morning."
Address: 7 Bosville Terrace, Portree, IV51 9DG, Scotland
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Glen Shiel Memorial
A quietly atmospheric Highland battle site Jack Lowden picks for sheer landscape.A quietly powerful spot in the Highlands, marking a decisive battle in the Jacobite risings. Jack Lowden's recommendation is not for what's there, which is little more than a few information boards, but for what surrounds it.
"Glen Shiel Battle Site, Highlands. A lesser known historical site, and there's nothing actually there other than a few information boards, but its setting is epic. A very decisive battle in the 1715 Jacobite rising took place there, and imagining anyone fighting in such a beautiful landscape is nuts. The path the A87 takes from Invergarry to here and then onto finally the Isle of Skye is one of the great stretches of road in Scotland. But the hills, THE HILLS are just breathtaking. So atmospheric and intimidating."
Address: A87, Kyle IV40 8HU, Scotland
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Barra
Where Whisky Galore was filmed, with a beach airstrip and a peat-smoke winter.The southern tip of the Outer Hebrides and a film location in its own right, Barra is where the original Whisky Galore was shot, a fact Jack Lowden discovered first-hand by watching the film on the island where it was made.
"Spent a week in the dead of winter here in a cottage. Peat smoke on the air and wind whipping around. We watched the original Whisky Galore there, which is where it was actually filmed. The island nearby, Eriskay, is where the boat full of whisky ran aground during the war and locals nicked a bunch of bottles and hid them across the island, down rabbit holes. Also, the flight from Glasgow to Barra is amazing, landing on the beach."
Barra Airport is one of the few in the world that uses a tidal beach as its runway, with flight times set by the tide tables.
Address: Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
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St Abbs
A Berwickshire memorial to the Eyemouth Disaster, picked by Jack Lowden for emotional weight.A small seaside village on the Berwickshire coast, home to one of Scotland's quietly devastating public memorials. The sculptures Jack Lowden refers to commemorate the 1881 Eyemouth Disaster, when a sudden storm killed 189 fishermen along this stretch of coast in a single afternoon.
"There was a huge storm in the 1880s off the coast of the Southeast of Scotland, in which 189 fishermen perished. And an artist, I think Jill Watson, made these incredibly evocative sculptures representing the women and fatherless children left behind. The sculptures are up the south east coast at different spots, but the best one is in St Abbs (which is also a beautiful little seaside town), and the sculptures are positioned facing out to sea, and frame the sea in such a moving way."
Jill Watson's series of bronze figures stands at Eyemouth, St Abbs, Burnmouth and Cove, each looking out to the water that took their husbands and fathers.
Address: St Abbs, Eyemouth, TD14 5QF, Scotland
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Jack Lowden
Scottish actor Jack Lowden picks seven places that he loves.Scottish actor Jack Lowden takes Be In The Scene through seven places in Scotland that have shaped his life and his craft.
The selection moves between the cinematic and the personal, from Edinburgh's stages and independent cinemas to the Highland coasts and Hebridean shores he keeps returning to. Each pin is a small window into the Scotland he carries with him, the country that informs his work on stage and screen.
Open the interactive map to step inside each of Jack's locations.