Old travel Blog photograph of a lamp on the wall of the coach house at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. This former coachman's house is situated in the South East corner of the Courtyard. In the 1850s and 1860s, Robert Matheson, born 1807, died 1877, the Clerk of Works for Scotland, carried out a programme of gradual improvements to Holyrood Palace, the Park and the Abbey Precincts, at the request of Queen Victoria and it is likely that this house was one of the buildings to be upgraded at that time. These improvements included designing Lodges for the entrances to the Park and the fountain in the forecourt.
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