Second Chef Required
A film about Kildonan House in South Ayrshire To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music: A beautiful cover of ‘Will You’ by Zoe … Continue reading Second Chef Required
Tag: Ayrshire
He spoke like a torrent
Historians of the past have recorded that Reverend Alexander Peden [1626-1686] used to preach from Peden’s Mount on the Water of Tig in South Ayrshire. He spoke like a torrent … Continue reading He spoke like a torrent
60 days for begging
This film is about Henry Ewing Talbot (1911-1983). He was known as ‘Snibs’. For the last three decades of his life he lived in Bennane cave in South Ayrshire. Sixty … Continue reading 60 days for begging
Cleikum Inn
The Cleikum Inn, near Auchentiber, is marked on the 1860 Ordinance Survey map on the right hand side of the road near Bentfauld farm. The 1895 does not name it … Continue reading Cleikum Inn
I dinner’d wi’ a Lord
A film about Nether Catrine Hoose, Ayrshire. I dinner’d wi’ a lord: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music Credit: Chasing the sun … Continue reading I dinner’d wi’ a Lord
“And still preserve this emblem of a mind”
This temple had eight pillars arranged around it and was built by Colonel William Fullarton on the isthmus at Troon. It had an inscription on it: Baccho laetitiae datori, amacis … Continue reading “And still preserve this emblem of a mind”
Boswell’s Summerhouse
Auchinleck summerhouse is carved directly into the red sandstone embankment that rises from Dippol burn. These photographs are from a visit on Sunday 8th September 2019:
Book of Company
On Sunday we visited Auchinleck House in Ayrshire. It was restored by James Simpson who is a friend of Peter’s. Auchinleck was the family seat of the diarist and biographer … Continue reading Book of Company