Old Photograph Skene House Scotland

Old photograph of Skene House in Aberdeen, Scotland. Provost George Skene lived in the house in the 17th century and is thought to have commissioned the carved plaster ceilings when he made some structural alterations to the building in 1676. In the 18th century, the Duke of Cumberland commandeered the house for his troops on their march north to Culloden. After this, it was known as 'Cumberland House', a name which survived into the 20th century, when the building, which had hitherto housed the famous and wealthy, became a public lodging house for the city's poor. In the 1930s, when adjacent houses in this formerly grand but now very run-down area of the city were demolished, a campaign was launched to save Provost Skene's House and an extensive programme of refurbishment began. In 1953, the house was opened to the public.



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