Rendezvous Restaurant
Last week we visited Castle Douglas where we had lunch. This was not in the ‘Rendezvous Restaurant‘ as it has long been closed. The above photograph of street art is … Continue reading Rendezvous Restaurant
Category: Scotland
Scotland today and Scotland past
Broughton House and Garden
Last week we were in Kirkcudbright and visited this eighteenth-century town house in the High Street owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It was the house lived in by … Continue reading Broughton House and Garden
A visit to Culross
Last Wednesday, the volunteer gardeners for Bannockburn House visited the village of Culross on the Firth of Forth. Our thanks go to Margaret Pollock, head gardener for Bannockburn House, for … Continue reading A visit to Culross
Seedhead studies
Allium seedheads in low sunlight [Mossgrove garden, today]:
The Chrystal family
I have been exploring this wonderful collection in the Trove archive: The photographs are by father and son. The father was George Chrystal [1851-1911], Professor of Mathematics at the University … Continue reading The Chrystal family
Magnus Jackson, father and son [Evergreen]
2 March 1891, Perthshire Constitutional Journal: Transference of photography business, 62 Princes Street, Perth, from father to son: 5 April 1891 census: 28 April 1891, Perth & Dundee Evening Telegraph: … Continue reading Magnus Jackson, father and son [Evergreen]
‘The New Hotel at Perth Station’
Dundee Courier, 19 March 1890: