Old Photograph Gunsgreen House Scotland

Old photograph of Gunsgreen House by the harbour in Eyemouth, Scotland. The houses was built around 1753 according to a design by the Scottish architect James Adam. Patrick Hume of Billie acquired Gunsgreen House in 1764. Later it came into the possession of John Nisbet. The merchant Nisbet was a well known smuggler and set up the building right next to the port to receive smuggled goods. After Nisbets trade was increasingly disturbed by the authorities in the 1780s, he lost his fortune in a court case initiated by his counterpart Alexander Robertson in 1789. In the following centuries the house often changed owner. Throughout its history, it has also served as the hotel and club of the local golf club. In the 1990s the neglected Gunsgreen House was empty. The non profit Gunsgreen House Trust was founded in 1998 and restored the villa by donations.



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Old Photograph Dunlop House Scotland

Old photograph of Dunlop House near the village of Dunlop in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The present tall and stately building of free stone dates from 1834 and was designed by the Glasgow architect Hamilton. It is built on the site of a very much older structure however dating from 1599, " an ancient stronghouse fortified by a deep moat ". It was Sir John Dunlop who demolished this former structure and built the imposing mansion employing Italian craftsmen to carry out the beautifully coffered ceiling in the drawing room. The stately property still retains many of the original cornice and ceiling details and incorporates a Jacobean tower. The interior of this fine property includes two halls, the lower or entrance hall and an upper hall with tall Corinthian pillars from which the principa lrooms diverge. The centre of the house is lit from the room. Dunlop House was among the first Ayrshire houses offered to the Red Cross during the War. The house remained in the Clan Dunlop family until 1932 when Ayrshire Council bought it.



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Old Photograph Dunmore House Scotland

Old photograph of Dunmore House near Ellenabeich, on the isle of Seil, Scotland. Seil is located on the east side of the Firth of Lorn, 7 miles south west of Oban. A former slate mining area and one of the Slate Islands, in the Firth of Lorn. A ferry sails from Easdale to Ellenabeich which is separated from Easdale by only a narrow channel. Confusingly, Ellenabeich is sometimes known as Easdale as a result of its traditional connections with the island. Once the centre of the British slate industry, Easdale had a community of more than 500 working as many as seven quarries, some of which extended to 300 feet below sea level. Easdale slate helped to build major cities of the British Empire and can still be seen on rooftops as far afield as Melbourne, Nova Scotia, Dunedin and Dublin. The last slate was cut in 1950.



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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Drive To Edradour Whisky Distillery Pitlochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a road trip to from Pitlochry, through Moulin to visit Edradour Whisky Distillery in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Established in 1825, the distillery was traditionally run by three men but now there are just two. Only twelve casks are produced each week. Edradour takes it water from a stream on Ben Vrackie called Edradour burn. A variety of whiskies are available from the distillery. Only the Edradour 10-year is chill-filtered, a process by which the esters and oils are removed, producing a cleaner look to the whisky, which when chilled or has ice added to it does not turn cloudy. There is, amongst others, a non chill filtered 12 year old malt, some of which goes into the House of Lords and Clan Campbell blends. Also produced for two days in a week is a heavily peated version of the Edradour called Ballechin.

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Old Photograph Clydesdale Bank Kemnay Scotland

Old photograph of the Clydesdale Bank in Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. James Burnett, the next younger brother of Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet, married Elizabeth Burnett. Their second son, Thomas Burnett of Kemnay was the first laird of Kemnay. Thomas was a writer in Edinburgh and married Margaret Pearson, daughter of John Pearson, a merchant in Edinburgh. He purchased Kemnay House from Sir George Nicolson, Lord Kemnay, a Lord of Session. The older residence that the newer mansion replaced, was built by Sir Thomas Crombie, had been owned previously by the Auchinlecks and the Douglases of Glenbervie.



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