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History of ACE

  • The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh has moved!

    The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh has moved! The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh has moved to a new temporary base at Edinburgh Palette, 525 Ferry Road Edinburgh EH5 2FF. As many will have heard ACE is having to move since the West Montgomery Place premises, which we have rented since 1997, are being sold. The new…

Some members of the ACE collective were involved in running the Unemployed Workers’ Centre on Broughton Street as a campaigning and social space. Unfortunately this lively and successful community centre was forcibly and illegally evicted by Edinburgh Council on Dec. 1st, 1994.

Despite a lack of premises, activities continued to flourish. Then in February 1997, ACE found its “Centre” at 17 West Montgomery Place.

Around the period 2006 / 2007 ACE volunteers and friends undertook an extensive renovation and upgrading of the premises, resulting in the attractive space that exists today.

The ACE library/archive contains much material on ACE’s history.

The Unemployed Workers’ Centre is featured in the 1994 documentary ‘Global Dissent’, about punk bank Oi Polloi (skip to 2:47)