On Monday the 14th of August 2017 Avondale House was deliberately set on fire by vandals. This has left me upset and sad.
Three years ago:
The photographs in the gallery below are from my first visit to Avondale House, Polmont on the 12th May 2014.
The ruined house is Avondale House, Polmont, Scotland is of a gothic style. This was the childhood home of the pioneering geologist William Edmond Logan (1798-1875)
Today Avondale House is a steel-shuttered ruin and yards away is one of the largest and smelliest land-fill sites in Scotland.
Written in stone [click here or on the image below to play my short film]:
I made this film – Time passes. Listen – about Avondale House. It is dedicated to William Edmond Logan:
The title of this film though comes from Dylan Thomas and his masterpiece “Under Milk Wood”.
Florentino Ariza in “Love in the time of cholera” by Gabriel García Márquez: “Florentino Ariza was very sensitive to the faltering steps of age.” P311
this is awful, why do people do this ?
I loved this place. It was a secret place that not many people even knew existed then last year there was a youtube video appeared with two guys going through it. Next thing is it’s gone. Not a coincidence. This is really sad, I feel your pain.
It’s a good thing those two guys documented it when they did or there would be no record whatsoever. They never named the location until after the fire for the very purpose of not attracting vandals. Also, not such a huge coincidence perhaps. The land owner had plenty of reason to do what other land owners have done with inconvenient historical buildings…