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
