After yesterday’s visit to the Chapel Royal at Holyrood in Edinburgh, our stereoscopic tour of Scotland continues in the company of photographer James Edward Ellam (1857-1920).
Today’s location is Barnbougle Castle, a 13th century structure rebuilt in the 1880s by the 5th Earl of Rosebery, a Prime Minster of the United Kingdom (1894-1895).
Rosebery wanted Barnbougle to be a retreat for study and contemplation, hence it boasted six libraries, a single bedroom and a barrel-vaulted Banqueting Hall where he practised his parliamentary speeches.
The caption in James’s distinctive handwriting adds that Barnbougle is “one of Lord Rosebery’s houses in Dalmeny Park.”
Overlooking the Firth of Forth, the castle occupies a coastal location which James places in the immediate foreground of his stereo.
With his camera placed at ground level, Barnbougle looms in the background, appearing even more formidable and grand.
Though it remained untouched after Rosebery’s death in 1929, Barnbougle has recently undergone a major renovation and is a popular wedding venue.
James’s stereo captures the castle in its heyday in the mid-1890s.
Tomorrow: “Stirling Old Bridge.”
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