Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Astrological Clock in the hallway on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Pollok House at Pollok Country Park in Glasgow, Britain, United Kingdom. This clock with its complex measurements of time, days, months and seasons was made, around 1764 when Glasgow was a town dominated by trade. It served as an entrepot between America and the West Indies on one side and continental Europe on the other, importing and re-exporting goods such as tobacco, sugar, timber and spices. Luxury goods were also shipped onwards to London where a concentration of wealth provided a ready market. Fortunes were made in moving goods, as well as processing and manufacturing new products for sale overseas. Pollok House was formerly the family seat of the Stirling Maxwell family. The Maxwell, later Stirling-Maxwell, later Maxwell Macdonald Baronetcy, of Pollock in the County of Renfrew, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was created on 12 April 1682 for John Maxwell, with remainder to the heirs of the body. In 1707 he was given a new patent extending the remainder to heirs of entail in his lands and estates. Maxwell was Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland from 1699 to 1702, and Rector of the University of Glasgow from 1691 to 1718
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Very interesting clock!
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