“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Some of the amazing Victorian architecture on the Roseneath Peninsula, Argyll and Bute.
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The first photo is just spectacular. Great post and thank you for sharing it.
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Thanks and thanks also for the follow. That house in the first picture was built in the 1850’s as a summer house for a Glasgow industrialist. Now it’s a hotel – https://www.knockderryhouse.co.uk/
It’s an amazing building
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It’s certainly amazing what you can find out nowadays. I’ve discovered loads of interesting things in the family tree. I’m afraid nothing related to Helensburgh though.
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Wonder if any of them belonged to Jacob Dixon1 or 2. They were great-grandfathers X 6 or 7 of mine and Provosts of Helensburgh…
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Interesting! Thanks! Quite a posh area at the time, I believe. Not sure how you’d check it out.
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I know that one of the Jacobs lived next to the hotel in East Clyde Street, Helensburgh. He was married to Jean Brown. His father was married to Catherine Ann McAulay, the eldest daughter of Dumbarton’s Town Clerk. The Dixons owned lots of property around there and so did John Dixon of the Dumbarton Glassworks, the paterfamiias.
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