After the Maitlands, the house passed through several hands before finally ending up in the possession of the Dukes of Hamilton. The 14th Duke bought it in 1946, & not long after clositer’d the fascinating relics of his bizarre brush with Rudolf Hess, the Reich number 2 & the guy who ...
Last month I wrote about my recent trip to Dunure in Ayrshire (see Looking Back), when I visited some of my childhood haunts, including the village of Alloway, famous for its association with the ‘ploughman poet’ Robert Burns. Next month I shall be returning to East Coker, the Somerset ...
Sitting amongst trees above Lennoxtown is this impressive castle. Castle in this sense is a large elegant house. Well it was once elegant. It is now a ruin. It is fenced although there is a gap in the palisading. I entered it and climbed over fallen rubble much as many others evidently...