Old Travel Blog Photograph Blackfriars Haugh River Lossie Elgin Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Blackfriars Haugh by the River Lossie by Elgin, a former cathedral city and Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland. The mansion house was built for William Grigor in the mid 19th century and later remodelled in baronial style in 1882 for Mr A.G. Allan, a solicitor, by the architect William Kidner. It was then owned by a Mr John Macdonald, a retired tobacco manufacturer, formerly of the firm of J & D Macdonald. The firm was amalgamated with the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and, following his demise in 1911, Macdonald left estate worth £105,684 and shares amounting to £93,311. In August 1918, Mr Hendry Russell Randall, of the Royal Worcester Warehouse Company, London, England, bought Blackfriers Haugh and its policies. He fitted the house up as a convalescent hospital and offered it to the American Red Cross for the benefit of wounded American officers and men. The mansion house finally became a family home again in the 1920s when it was bought by Mr H.C. Bibby. The family remained until the 1940s when it was gifted to the people of Elgin by Mrs Katherine Bibby. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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