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Hole Ousia

  • About me
    • Artwork by Peter
    • Contact
    • Courage to Care
      • ‘Two cultures’
      • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
      • Curriculum vitae
      • Declaration of interests
      • In support of professional values
      • Leaving a profession
      • Medical publications
      • Messages about my retirement
      • Testimonials for Dr Peter J. Gordon
      • Timely diagnosis of dementia
    • Deeside Tales
      • To be humbled.
    • Films made by Peter
      • A Thousand Chances
      • Bridge of Allan
      • Dandie Dinmont
      • Finding Cimbrone
      • Here is where we meet
      • Important note about my films
      • It was the singing
      • Mossgrove garden
      • The Cabrach
      • The Rebel Antiquary
      • They fell for us
      • Time passes. Listen
      • Trees: age and beauty do go together
    • Hole Ousia [what does it mean?]
    • Mavisbank
      • On Esca’s Flow’ry Bank
    • Peter’s poems
      • One word poems
    • Publications in the “Leopard”
    • The Ageing Stone
    • The speaking hedge
    • What is in a name?
  • being and becoming
    • “A place with no quotation marks”
    • Academic reductionisms
    • Admissions of doubt
    • Ariel
    • Cell Mates
    • Ethics
    • Medical “truants”
    • Multifarious learners
      • A fortunate man
      • Dr Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
      • Dr Arthur J. Brock
      • Dr Arthur Mitchell
      • Dr Daniel Reid Rankin
      • Dr Gavin Francis
      • Dr James Sheridan Knowles
      • Dr Leon Eisenberg
      • Dr Samuel Brown (1817 – 1856)
      • Edmund de Waal
      • Femi Oyebode
      • George Washington Wilson
      • Graham Watt
      • James Clerk Maxwell
      • James Skene
      • John Berger
        • Here is where we meet
      • John Frederick William Herschel
      • K. J. Fowler
      • Kenneth Calman
      • Mr and Mrs Rose
      • Nadar
      • Patrick Matthew
      • Rev George Gilfillan
      • Richard Feynman
      • Scottish women writers
      • Sir Harry Burns
      • Theodore Dalrymple
      • Thomas Browne
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Lewson Burrowes
    • One way of measuring a tree
    • Philosophers
      • Albert Camus
      • Andrew Greig
      • Dr John Flaxman
      • Dugald Stewart
      • John Macmurray
      • John Stuart Mill
      • Mary Midgley
    • Poets
      • Alexander laing
      • Caledonian Antisyzygy
      • Carol Ann Duffy
      • Daniel Abse
      • Edwin Morgan
      • Iain Banks
      • Ian Crichton Smith
      • Ivor Gurney
      • James Hyslop
      • James M Slimmon
      • John Betjeman
      • John Halliday
      • Kathleen Jamie
      • Kieron Winn
      • La Teste
      • Leonard Cohen
      • Liz Lochhead
      • Norman MacCaig
      • Patrick Deeley
      • Paul Muldoon
      • Rab Wilson
      • Rabbie Burns
        • Films aboot RABBIE BURNS
      • Robert Fergusson
      • Robert Nicholl
      • Robert Pollok
      • Robin Hyde
      • Sylvia Plath
      • T S Eliot
      • Ted Hughes
      • Tom Leonard
      • Tomas Tranströmer
      • Wilfred Owen
      • William Carlos Williams
      • William Soutar
    • Political pieces
    • Raymond Tallis
    • Sapere Aude
      • A bit of a prat
      • Binglety, Banglety, Bumpety
      • Caroline Phillips
      • Chrys Muirhead
      • Claire Fox
      • Dr Donald Brownlie
      • Dr Margaret McCartney
      • Ella Rae
      • Ethics rather than rules
      • Fara McAfee
      • Gawaine Baillie
      • Gerald
      • Hale-Bopp
      • Humpty Dumpty
      • I mistook myself for a scientific label
      • Jessie Lennox (a Nightingale)
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Aubrey
      • King Kong
      • Margaret Maberley Gordon
      • O. G. S. Crawford
      • Omphatyp’
      • Owen Jones
      • Reducing the world to pure logic
      • Richard Holloway
      • Richard Taylor
      • Roy Porter
      • Stanley Murray
    • Tam o’Shanter
    • The Cabrach
    • The remains of the day
    • The shock of the fall
    • Writers
      • A L Kennedy
      • A S Byatt
      • Adam Nicolson
      • Alan Trotter
      • Alexander McCall Smith
      • Ali Smith
      • Alice Hoffman
      • Andrew Greig
      • Andrew Miller
      • Annalena MacAfee
      • Anne Tyler
        • Vinegar Girl
      • Anthony Doerr
      • Candia McWilliam
      • Cesare Pavese
      • Charlotte Peacock
      • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
      • David Szalay
      • Deborah Levy
      • Douglas Stuart
      • E M Forster
      • Emily Fridlund
      • Ernest Hemingway
      • Evelyn Waugh
        • Decline and Fall
      • Fiona Mozley
      • Ford Madox Ford
      • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
      • Gabriel García Marquez
      • Gavin Francis
      • Geoff Dyer
      • George Orwell
      • George Saunders
      • Hanya Yanighara
      • Howard Jacobson
      • Iris Murdoch
      • J. D. Salinger
      • Janice Galloway
      • Jessie Burton
      • John Buchan
      • John Lanchester
      • John Steinbeck
      • Julian Barnes
      • Kathleen Jamie
      • Lampedusa
      • Laurie Lee
      • Madeleine Thien
      • Marcel Proust
      • Margaret Drabble
      • Matt Haig
      • Max Porter
        • Lanny
      • Mohsin Hamid
      • Mukul Kesavan
      • Muriel Spark
      • Nan Shepherd
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Otessa Moshfegh
      • Penelope Fitzgerald
      • Richard Flanagan
      • Richard Holmes
      • Richard Yates
      • Roald Dahl
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Robert Seethaler
      • Rudyard Kipling
      • Sara Baume
      • Sylvia Plath
      • Thomas Mann
      • Virginia Woolf
      • Vladimir Nabakov
      • Will Cohu
      • William Boyd
      • Yann Martel
  • in the world
    • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
      • ‘Listen, let the people petition and be heard’
      • Bring me a sunshine act: five minutes with . . . Peter Gordon
      • EPAD co-coordinator: Professor Craig Ritchie
      • Key Opinion Leaders
      • Polypropylene Mesh Implants
      • Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
        • “FULLY BOOKED”
        • “Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”
        • “That prescription figure is high”
        • “Villains and Demonisers”
        • ‘Antidepressant use: changing patterns, cost and clinical effectiveness’
        • ‘MEDICAL EDUCATION: In the grip of industry?’
        • 1 in 7
        • A letter in the Times
        • A reply to Professor Rob Howard
        • Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”
        • Antidepressant prescribing and informed consent
        • Antidepressant withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?
        • Antidepressants: ‘no good evidence’ for long-term use
        • Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?
        • Dr David Foreman on First Do No Harm
        • Dr Mark Bolstridge on First Do No Harm
        • Dr Mark Swinton on First Do No Harm
        • Dr Samei Huda on First Do No Harm
        • How to Defeat Depression
        • Language Matters: indeed it does
        • Paroxetine tablets [Film-Coated]
        • PRAM
        • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
        • Science Media Centre
        • Scottish Government: Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland
        • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for the Elderly
        • Words and numbers should be used with equal care
      • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
        • Back in the driving seat: Industry
        • Hide and Seek
        • Issues not considered in the ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
        • Snakes, ladders and Monopoly
        • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’ – a timeline
      • The Royal Colleges and Sunshine Legislation
    • Architecture
      • ‘The Story of Drummond Place’
      • Abbotsford
      • Andrew Crosbie’s House
      • Auchinleck House
      • Bute House
      • Cabrach Shooting Lodge
      • Charles Brand Ltd
      • Dalhousie Memorial Arch
      • Drummond Place, Edinburgh
      • Edinburgh’s first Theatre
      • Glasgow Necropolis
      • Hermits and Termits
      • Hospitalfield House
      • Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
      • Kildonan House
      • Kinneil House
      • Mar Lodge, Stirling
      • McCaig’s Tower, Oban
      • Moatbrae House, Dumfries
      • Monument to the Political Martyrs’
      • Muschat’s cairn
      • Old Royal High School, Edinburgh
      • Robert Adam
      • Scottish architectural follies
      • SeaPark
      • Shakespeare Square
      • St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
      • Temple of the Muses
      • TEMPLE [Cupar]
      • The galleria
      • The Red Road flats
      • The Wallace Monument
      • The Well of the Seven Heads
      • Tower of Glenstrae
      • Twa Gables
      • Warriston Gates
    • Ardeer Explosive’s Factory
    • Bridges
      • Abergeldie foot bridge
      • Boat o’Brig
      • Forth Road Bridge
      • Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
      • Old White Bridge
      • The Glenfinnan Viaduct
    • D.L.R.O.W
      • The mild cigar
    • Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
    • Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
    • Ena Scott
    • Garrel Glen
    • Glasgow Memory Clinic
    • Kilrymont Road
    • landscapes (time held green)
      • ‘Hill of the Resurrection’
      • Beauly’s Wych Elm
      • Carsebreck
      • Cliff House
      • Dunbuy
      • Duncryne
      • Eilean Fhianain
      • Garden Archaeology
      • Gardeners
        • ‘Gardener Found Insane’
        • A high summer garden
        • A new generation of gardeners
        • A Nursery Manager
        • Abergeldie’s gardener
        • Alexander Marr
        • Alexander Walker
        • Arbigland’s gardener
        • Boghead, Bathgate
        • Carnbroe’s gairdener
        • Charles bell, Ormistoun Hall
        • Charles Frampton
        • Charles Webster
        • COREHOUSE
        • David Pringle Laird
        • Davina, Lady Stair
        • Eagle and Henderson
        • Glassingall Gardener
        • Glentulchan gardener
        • Helen Carmichael
        • James Ironside
        • James Sutherland
        • John Halliday
        • John Wright Paton
        • Kick the sleepers away
        • Last of Horse Wynd
        • Miss Hope
        • Monty Don
        • Ninian Niven
        • No.1 Shrub Place
        • No.1 Shrub Place
        • OLDEST GARDENER
        • Patrick’s garden
        • Peter and Sian’s garden
        • Peter Gordon, gardener
        • Peter Rankin, Glen Creran
        • Peter Thomson
        • Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’
        • R E E K I A N A
        • Return to the seed
        • Robert Graham of Tamrawer
        • Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens
        • Robert Rust
        • Scotland’s Silver Glen
        • The Abbotsford gardener
        • The Astronomical Gardener
        • The auld gardener
        • The gardener of Finca Vigia
        • The gentle gardener
        • The Queen’s Gardener
        • The Sisters’ Garden
        • Thomas Cleghorn
        • Tom Spence
        • Under Gardener [D U N I R A]
        • Volunteer gardener
        • Wellington Dauncey
        • William Rutherford
      • Gauch
      • Glen Girnoc
        • Abergeldie castle
        • Bovaglie
          • Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)
          • The Bovaglie manuscript
        • Loinveg
        • The Camlet
      • Glenbardy
      • Hannah Ann Stirling
      • Henrietta’s grave
      • Inchcolm island
      • Jock’s Road
      • Kilmadock churchyard
      • Leckie Glen
      • Linga Isle
      • Little Sparta
      • Lochnagar
      • Mossgrove Garden
      • Orchards
      • Peter Davidson
      • St Kilda
      • Stigliano, Tuscany, Italy
      • Stronmilchan
      • The Devil’s Pulpit
      • The Dragon’s Hole
      • The Fortingall Yew
      • The Hill
      • The John Muir Way
      • The living mountain
      • The Lost Garden of Dunira
      • The suicide graves
      • Tillybin
      • Wanzie
      • Yew trees
        • Adam and Eve Yews
        • An incredibly ancient child
        • “When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree”
        • Chapel of the Yew Trees
        • Craigend Yew
        • Earlshall [shapes abandoned]
        • I Vow Yew
        • Rockingham elephants
        • Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees
        • St Columba’s Yew
        • Stow on Wold Yews
        • The Abbotshall Yew
        • The Auchendrane Yew
        • The circular Yew hedge
        • The Culfargie Yew
        • The Fortingall Yew
        • The Fraser Yew
        • The Inchbrakie Yew
        • The little loch of the yew grove
        • The Ormiston Yew
        • The Raploch Yew
        • The Somerleyton Yew
        • The Wallace Yew
    • Mortar and Pestles
    • Mrs Picken
    • Necessity Brae
    • Rogues’ Gallery
      • Duncan Paton
      • Helen Nicholson
      • John Grovenor
      • John Moir
      • John Yates alias John Hewitt, Patrick Hines, John Miller, John Roy
      • Peter [alias John]
      • Philip Hughes
      • William Slater
    • Sir Walter Scott’s Tree
    • The bicycle tree
    • The Great Globe
    • The Jam factory
    • Trees
      • The Wallace Oak
    • Waverley
  • where time passes (listen)
    • Bridge of Allan
      • ‘A Lecropt Girl’
      • ‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
      • ‘Quote of the week’
      • 105 Henderson Street
      • A bridge over the Allan Water
      • A dry fountain that once gushed and sparkled in the sunlight
      • A poet as well as a gardener
      • Ashintrool
      • Beware the Fly!
      • Borrowmeadow Farm
      • Bridge of Allan Highland Games
      • Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s
      • Chemists and Apothecaries
        • Charles Neil Rutherfoord
        • Gilbert Farie
        • Oswald Robertson
      • Craig Mair
      • Drumdruills
        • Rab Scott
      • FAMILY films
      • Fernfield
      • Films about BRIDGE of ALLAN
      • Finn Russell
      • Fire Brigade
      • Glimpses of Local History
      • Hercules
      • Holed out in ONE!
      • Jenny Nettles
      • Jerah
      • John Cullens
      • John McCaig
      • Keir Estate, Stirling
      • Keirfield
        • David Rutherfoord
      • Landmarks of Bridge of Allan
      • Lecropt and Larger Scotland
      • Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
      • Millad
      • Miss Jessie lennox
      • Mossgrove
        • Arborglyphs
        • Diary of a house
        • Hale Bopp
        • MERRYTHOUGHT
        • Mossgrove garden
          • The blue flower
        • Our cats
        • The anatomy of emotion
        • The man with the child in his eyes
        • The son of a Bank Manager
        • This is not yesterday
        • Tillybin
          • VANDAL
      • Museum Hall
      • Music Hall
        • Mrs Hamilton
        • Professor Ewart
        • Professor Whitworth
      • Old Village Worthies
      • Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
      • Our first village shop
      • Our village in old photographs and writings
      • Pictures of Bridge of Allan
      • Rev Charles Rogers
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • SPA CLEAN
      • SPA CLEAN [ZERO WASTE}
      • St Ann’s
      • Stevenson’s cave
      • The Cleopatra needle
      • The Fountain of Nineveh
      • The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
      • The Owl Man
      • The Rutherfoord family: Ten summers fade
      • The Rutherford letters
      • The Tufty Club
      • The Well House, Bridge of Allan
      • The Wharrie Glen
      • The Wrights of Loss
      • Village doctors
        • Dr A. S. Biggart
        • Dr Alexander Wilkie Paterson
        • Dr Balbirnie
        • Dr Eric Dow
        • Dr John Hossack Fraser
        • Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord
        • Dr Mary Baird Hannah
        • Dr William Haldane
        • Dr William Halliday Welsh
      • Waller Hugh Paton
      • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
      • We follow them, as they are us
    • Dunblane
      • Andy Murray
      • Dunblane Cathedral reopens
    • Folk worth talking about
      • “Dr Frederick Adair”
      • ‘Black’ John Skirving
      • ‘Bob Dragon’
      • ‘Dr William Brodum”
      • ‘Whistling Willie,’ the LION MAN
      • A Big Burd
      • A Railway-Porter Astronomer
      • Agnes Mary
      • Albert Bayne, DCM
      • Alexander Ormiston Curle
      • Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA
      • Aloysius
      • Andrew Wilson
      • Andy Murray
      • Angus John Campbell
      • Anne Grant of Laggan
      • Annie Graham Baird
      • Arthur
      • Aubrey Beardsley
      • Betty Mouat
      • C. P. Snow
      • Captain Alexander Morrison
      • Captain Michael Slater
      • Captain Peter Gordon
      • Captain Phillips
      • Carol Colburn Grigor
      • Caroline Stuart Clarke
      • Charlotte Skinner
      • Clive Wright
      • Colin McWilliam
      • CYNICUS
      • Dani Garavelli
      • David Bowie
      • David Harrowes
      • Davina Gordon
      • Diana Rigg
      • Dr John Stuart
      • Dr Pat Beausang
      • Dr Quackleben
      • Drue Heinz
      • Elijah Wood
      • Elizabeth and Ada
      • Ella Rae
      • Emma Raducanu
      • Eric Redmond
      • Esmé Gordon
      • Felix Feneon
      • Finn Russell
      • Fittie’s Tragic Harbourmaster
      • Florence Taylor
      • Francis Moncrieff
      • Fynes Moryson
      • Geoffrey Jellicoe
        • Scratches
      • Gregory’s girl
      • Gunnar Jungner
      • Hector Dove
      • Ian Collins
      • Ivor Gurney
      • J. J. R. Macleod
      • James Maxwell Glover Wilson
      • James Muir
      • James Woodburn Dunlop
      • Jane Creighton
      • Janet B Wood
      • John Glen Parker
      • John Mackenzie Bacon
      • John Marshall Scott
      • John Ramsay of Ochtertyre
      • John Wilson
      • Johnston Shearer
      • Joseph Gordon
      • Kenneth Kuanda
      • Lord Esher
      • Margaret Mary Risk
      • Mary Melvill
      • Mary Wollstonecraft
      • Miss Christina Gib
      • MRS H B B Paull
      • My Great Uncle Peter
      • Nancy Prentice
      • Octavius Morgan
      • Oswald Bates
      • Patrick Geddes
      • Patrick Matthew
      • Peter Pan
      • Professor Cairo
      • Prophet Peden
      • PUDDIN’
      • Rashiebog
      • Rev Charles Rogers
      • Rev. I. M. Jolly
      • Robert Atkinson
      • Robert Hutchison
      • Robert Nicholl
      • Saad F Ghalib
      • Sally Scott
      • Scipio
      • Shane Mac Thomáis
      • Sian
      • Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster
      • Snibs
      • Sophia Jex-Blake
      • Tam Dalyell
      • The Lass o’ the Lecht
      • The Lighthouse Georgesons
      • The Odd Dr Todd
      • The Owl Man
      • The Owl Man
      • The Red Lady
      • The Wizard of the North
      • Thomas Hastie Bryce
      • Tim Minchin
      • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
      • William Borthwick
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Hay Leith Tester
      • Winifred Roberts
    • Gilbert Farie
    • Ruins
      • 142 King Street, Aberdeen
      • 20 Main Street, Buckpool
      • Abdie Curling House
      • Aldbar castle
      • Aldbar Chapel
      • Allan Ramsay’s House
      • Alloa Inch
      • Allt Catanach
      • Almond or Haining castle
      • Alva Ice House
      • Amisfield, Haddington
      • An Dachaidh
      • ANGEL Inn
      • Apollo’s Temple
      • Apollo’s Temple
      • Argaty House
      • Arnhall castle
      • Arnmore House
      • Auchengray House
      • Auchinleck Summerhouse
      • Auchloy
      • Auchmair
      • Auchtavan
      • Auld Fossoway
      • Avondale House
      • Badnaiska, Loch Awe
      • Balbardie
      • Balboughty Dairy
      • Balrossie
      • Balyarrow
      • Bandeath armaments depot
      • Bandeath Revisited
      • Bank, Cabrach
      • Bannockburn House
      • Barbreck Mausoleum and Folly
      • Barnbarroch
      • Bathwell, Rosneath
      • Bishopsfauld
      • Blackborough House
      • Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach
      • Boathouse, Blantyre
      • Bridgealehouse
      • Brodie’s cairn
      • Brucklay castle
      • Buck, Cabrach
      • Caldwell House
      • Cammo House and Estate
      • Carim Lodge
      • Carmichael House
      • Carmichael House
      • Carnbroe
      • Carnock House
      • Carnsalloch
      • Carron House
      • Carstairs Mausoleum
      • Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay
      • Castle Newe
      • Castlehill Colliery
      • Catrine House
      • Charlotte’s Cave
      • Cherryton Brick Works
      • Cleikum Inn
      • Clinterty
      • Club’s Tomb
      • Cormilligan
      • Corston Mill
      • Cowiehall
      • Craigends House
      • Craighall castle
      • Craigmill cottage, Inverpeffray
      • Crawford Priory
      • Crawford Priory
      • Custom House, Bridgend, Perth
      • Dalnawillan Lodge
      • Dalquharron
      • Dillot
      • Douglas Support
      • Dryden, Bilston Glen
      • Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie
      • Dunalastair
      • Dunbog House
      • Duncrub house
      • Dunglass Castle and Bell’s Memorial
      • Dunmore House
      • Duntarvie castle
      • Dupplin West Lodge
      • Dykehead, Strathaven
      • East Lodge, Aberlour House
      • Eastend, Carmichael
      • Easter Limekilns
      • Edinburgh’s Orphan Hospital
      • Edmonstone house and park
      • Eilean nam Faoileag Folly, Loch Rannoch
      • Ellemhaugh
      • Ellengowan
      • Evelick castle
      • Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium
      • Falcon Hall
      • Feddal castle
      • Fishtown of Usan
      • Fraser Mausoleum and Mortuary Chapel
      • Fullarton’s Folly
      • Garngad House
      • Gelston castle
      • Gesto House, Skye
      • Gilbertfield castle
      • Gilmerton House
      • Glasgow Green Station
      • Glen Fruin Schoolhouse
      • Glencowie, Strathdon
      • Glendevon castle
      • Glenfiddich Shooting Lodge
      • Glenfruin Schoolhouse
      • Glenhove tomb
      • Glentulchan
      • Glenure [Glenover]
      • Gosford Mausoleum
      • Greenock Tempietto
      • Haldrick
      • Hartshaw Tower
      • Hatton estate
      • Haughhead
      • Hawkhill Villa
      • Heatherbell
      • Heathershot
      • Helen’s Well
      • High Dalblair
      • Holmehill House
      • House of Nairne
      • Hundy Mundy
      • Huntershall Inn, Dun Law
      • Inchbrakie
      • Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’
      • Inverpeffary castle and library
      • Jawhills
      • Jawhills
      • Keeper’s House for Hamilton Mausoleum
      • Keir Home Farm
      • Kenmure castle
      • Kennetpans
      • Kilmadock old churchyard
      • Kilmaron castle
      • Kilneuair Chapel
      • Kincaldrum House
      • Kingsborough, Skye
      • Kingseat Hospital
      • Kipps
      • Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar
      • Knowegreens Inn
      • Knowehead, Blackford
      • Knowsie House
      • Lanrick castle (demolished)
      • Largo House
      • Largue, Cabrach
      • Largue, Glenkindie
      • Lathallan House
      • Lindertis
      • Lindertis House
      • Lion Gate, West Lodges, Ladykirk House
      • Little Tullybelton
      • Lochery
      • Lochgreen
      • Lochrosque
      • Lucky Scaup
      • Lynedoch
      • Mains of Ulbster
      • Maison Dieu, Brechin
      • MARIEVILLE
      • Maulesden
      • Meigle steading
      • Millearne
      • Muir o’Gill
      • Nether Buckie: covered water reservoir
      • Newton of Condie
      • Oban Hydropathic
      • Orchardhead, Bothkennar
      • Oswald’s Temple
      • Panmure House
      • Patriothall Laundry
      • Pennan farm
      • Petershill
      • PIPE Lane
      • Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
      • Pitmiddle village
      • Polkemmet Mausoleum
      • Polmaise castle
      • Poltalloch
      • Powneed, Cabrach
      • Rawyards Cotton Mill
      • Rockville, Edinburgh
      • Roseberry steading
      • Rosecraig, Strathbraan
      • Roslin Curling Pond
      • Rosneath Castle
      • Rossie castle
      • Roxburgh House, Kelso
      • Royal Cornhill Hospital
      • Scotland’s Close, Bo’ness
      • Shakespeare Square
      • Shark’s Mouth, Coatbridge
      • Sheardale House
      • Siberia
      • SINGER Factory, Clydebank
      • Smyllum Park
      • South Milton Cottage
      • St Fort, Newport, Fife
      • St Leonard’s
      • St Peter’s Seminary
      • Steuartfield
      • STOBS Gunpowder Mills
      • Stockiemuir Anti-Aircraft Battery
      • Straid
      • Strathella
      • Stronhavie
      • Stronvar House
      • Tamrawer
      • The Binn
      • The bridge to nowhere
      • The Clock Lodge
      • The Drummond Scrolls
      • The Dutch Gable House
      • The Esher-Stank mausoleum
      • The Friends of Truth burial ground
      • The Garlet
      • The H E R M I T A G E [Friars’ Carse]
      • The lost garden of Penicuik
      • The Macrae Monument
      • The Mavisbank Trust
        • Mavisbank (as Clerk’s “villa”)
        • Mavisbank (maps and plans)
        • Mavisbank (newspaper cuttings)
        • Mavisbank (the Asylum years)
        • Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
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Hatton estate

This is a film about Hatton estate, near Kirknewton. Sadly, apart from the gateway and two pavilions, nothing much else survives:

 

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Hatton 017 Drawing room
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      • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
      • William Borthwick
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Hay Leith Tester
      • Winifred Roberts
    • Gilbert Farie
    • Ruins
      • 142 King Street, Aberdeen
      • 20 Main Street, Buckpool
      • Abdie Curling House
      • Aldbar castle
      • Aldbar Chapel
      • Allan Ramsay’s House
      • Alloa Inch
      • Allt Catanach
      • Almond or Haining castle
      • Alva Ice House
      • Amisfield, Haddington
      • An Dachaidh
      • ANGEL Inn
      • Apollo’s Temple
      • Apollo’s Temple
      • Argaty House
      • Arnhall castle
      • Arnmore House
      • Auchengray House
      • Auchinleck Summerhouse
      • Auchloy
      • Auchmair
      • Auchtavan
      • Auld Fossoway
      • Avondale House
      • Badnaiska, Loch Awe
      • Balbardie
      • Balboughty Dairy
      • Balrossie
      • Balyarrow
      • Bandeath armaments depot
      • Bandeath Revisited
      • Bank, Cabrach
      • Bannockburn House
      • Barbreck Mausoleum and Folly
      • Barnbarroch
      • Bathwell, Rosneath
      • Bishopsfauld
      • Blackborough House
      • Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach
      • Boathouse, Blantyre
      • Bridgealehouse
      • Brodie’s cairn
      • Brucklay castle
      • Buck, Cabrach
      • Caldwell House
      • Cammo House and Estate
      • Carim Lodge
      • Carmichael House
      • Carmichael House
      • Carnbroe
      • Carnock House
      • Carnsalloch
      • Carron House
      • Carstairs Mausoleum
      • Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay
      • Castle Newe
      • Castlehill Colliery
      • Catrine House
      • Charlotte’s Cave
      • Cherryton Brick Works
      • Cleikum Inn
      • Clinterty
      • Club’s Tomb
      • Cormilligan
      • Corston Mill
      • Cowiehall
      • Craigends House
      • Craighall castle
      • Craigmill cottage, Inverpeffray
      • Crawford Priory
      • Crawford Priory
      • Custom House, Bridgend, Perth
      • Dalnawillan Lodge
      • Dalquharron
      • Dillot
      • Douglas Support
      • Dryden, Bilston Glen
      • Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie
      • Dunalastair
      • Dunbog House
      • Duncrub house
      • Dunglass Castle and Bell’s Memorial
      • Dunmore House
      • Duntarvie castle
      • Dupplin West Lodge
      • Dykehead, Strathaven
      • East Lodge, Aberlour House
      • Eastend, Carmichael
      • Easter Limekilns
      • Edinburgh’s Orphan Hospital
      • Edmonstone house and park
      • Eilean nam Faoileag Folly, Loch Rannoch
      • Ellemhaugh
      • Ellengowan
      • Evelick castle
      • Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium
      • Falcon Hall
      • Feddal castle
      • Fishtown of Usan
      • Fraser Mausoleum and Mortuary Chapel
      • Fullarton’s Folly
      • Garngad House
      • Gelston castle
      • Gesto House, Skye
      • Gilbertfield castle
      • Gilmerton House
      • Glasgow Green Station
      • Glen Fruin Schoolhouse
      • Glencowie, Strathdon
      • Glendevon castle
      • Glenfiddich Shooting Lodge
      • Glenfruin Schoolhouse
      • Glenhove tomb
      • Glentulchan
      • Glenure [Glenover]
      • Gosford Mausoleum
      • Greenock Tempietto
      • Haldrick
      • Hartshaw Tower
      • Hatton estate
      • Haughhead
      • Hawkhill Villa
      • Heatherbell
      • Heathershot
      • Helen’s Well
      • High Dalblair
      • Holmehill House
      • House of Nairne
      • Hundy Mundy
      • Huntershall Inn, Dun Law
      • Inchbrakie
      • Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’
      • Inverpeffary castle and library
      • Jawhills
      • Jawhills
      • Keeper’s House for Hamilton Mausoleum
      • Keir Home Farm
      • Kenmure castle
      • Kennetpans
      • Kilmadock old churchyard
      • Kilmaron castle
      • Kilneuair Chapel
      • Kincaldrum House
      • Kingsborough, Skye
      • Kingseat Hospital
      • Kipps
      • Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar
      • Knowegreens Inn
      • Knowehead, Blackford
      • Knowsie House
      • Lanrick castle (demolished)
      • Largo House
      • Largue, Cabrach
      • Largue, Glenkindie
      • Lathallan House
      • Lindertis
      • Lindertis House
      • Lion Gate, West Lodges, Ladykirk House
      • Little Tullybelton
      • Lochery
      • Lochgreen
      • Lochrosque
      • Lucky Scaup
      • Lynedoch
      • Mains of Ulbster
      • Maison Dieu, Brechin
      • MARIEVILLE
      • Maulesden
      • Meigle steading
      • Millearne
      • Muir o’Gill
      • Nether Buckie: covered water reservoir
      • Newton of Condie
      • Oban Hydropathic
      • Orchardhead, Bothkennar
      • Oswald’s Temple
      • Panmure House
      • Patriothall Laundry
      • Pennan farm
      • Petershill
      • PIPE Lane
      • Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
      • Pitmiddle village
      • Polkemmet Mausoleum
      • Polmaise castle
      • Poltalloch
      • Powneed, Cabrach
      • Rawyards Cotton Mill
      • Rockville, Edinburgh
      • Roseberry steading
      • Rosecraig, Strathbraan
      • Roslin Curling Pond
      • Rosneath Castle
      • Rossie castle
      • Roxburgh House, Kelso
      • Royal Cornhill Hospital
      • Scotland’s Close, Bo’ness
      • Shakespeare Square
      • Shark’s Mouth, Coatbridge
      • Sheardale House
      • Siberia
      • SINGER Factory, Clydebank
      • Smyllum Park
      • South Milton Cottage
      • St Fort, Newport, Fife
      • St Leonard’s
      • St Peter’s Seminary
      • Steuartfield
      • STOBS Gunpowder Mills
      • Stockiemuir Anti-Aircraft Battery
      • Straid
      • Strathella
      • Stronhavie
      • Stronvar House
      • Tamrawer
      • The Binn
      • The bridge to nowhere
      • The Clock Lodge
      • The Drummond Scrolls
      • The Dutch Gable House
      • The Esher-Stank mausoleum
      • The Friends of Truth burial ground
      • The Garlet
      • The H E R M I T A G E [Friars’ Carse]
      • The lost garden of Penicuik
      • The Macrae Monument
      • The Mavisbank Trust
        • Mavisbank (as Clerk’s “villa”)
        • Mavisbank (maps and plans)
        • Mavisbank (newspaper cuttings)
        • Mavisbank (the Asylum years)
        • Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
        • Mavisbank: Talk to the Civic Trust Conference
      • The Mercer Obelisk
      • The Old Bridge of Livet
      • The REGAL Cinema
      • The ruins of Erskine Beveridge
      • The Temple of Decision
      • The Viking Cinema
      • Thornton Fever Hospital
      • Tollafraick, Glenkindie
      • Tombain, Cabrach
      • Torwood Cottage
      • Totarder
      • Tullibody House
      • Tullybeagles Lodge
      • Turnalt
      • Upper Cabrach School
      • Upper Quoigs
      • Vallay
      • W A T C H M A N
      • Walkinshaw House
      • Wanderwang
      • Waterloo Tower
      • West Dron Hill Farm
      • Whaick
      • Whigham Inn
      • Whitehaugh Mausoleum
      • Woodbank House, Balloch
    • The Ageing Stone
    • The Antiquary
    • The Great Tapestry of Scotland
    • The Wilkie’s of Errol
    • There was an insistent present tenseness
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