Which brings me to the rather ornate clocktower , I believe that most of the valuables and probably including the clocks were sold off in 1995 by Christies – the present Laird sold the main house in 1975 to a Mahdi – al Tajir – greatly to his wifes amusement as he didn’t tell her till a year after the sale, when she refused to move out and partioned 12 rooms in the main house and lived there till 1983 when she passed away. Included in the sale of the house was 180 acres of parkland and 35,000 acres of land including the water source where Highland Spring water is bottled from.
the clocktower has inscriptions on it in bright red lettering
“ tis later with the wish than hes aware”
“hours are times darts and one comes wingd with death”
“take time time ere time be tent”
Moving into the house there are some remarkable wallpapers to blind the most unsuspecting
the date that this house closed its door finally so far has remained elusive to me but under carpets I found newspapers dated 1985.
I found this what must be a prototype washing machine by “Acme” the same make as the one at Pirniehall
don’t know what this is
moving into the farm buildings
and then onto the sawmill
sorry for such a large report on a lowly farm folks I just couldn’t portray this explore with much less – thanks for looking.