Old Photograph Whittingehame House Scotland

Old photograph of Whittingehame House near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland. James Balfour engaged James Dorward, from Haddington, to build a new neo-classical mansion and offices to designs by Sir Robert Smirke, Whittingehame House, completed about 1817, with additions and alterations by architect William Burn ten years later. Between 1939 and 1941, Whittingehame house was converted into a school for Jewish refugee children coming to Britain through the Kindertransport. The school, known as the Whittingehame Farm School, sheltered 160 children between the ages of 7 and 17.



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