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He died aged 78 from Angina Pectoris, on 29 June 1902 at John Square House, [1] Oban, Argyll. He is principally known for commissioning McCaig's Tower in Oban for which he was also the architect. He had extensive dealings within the Oban surroundings including being the Gas Works Director and owning the Pier. From the hustings for the 1885 ...
McCaig's Tower [1] or McCaig's Folly [2] is a prominent tower on Battery Hill [3] overlooking the town of Oban in Argyll, Scotland. It is built of Bonawe granite taken from the quarries across Airds Bay, on Loch Etive, from Muckairn, with a circumference of about 200 metres (660 ft) with two-tiers of 94 lancet arches (44 on the bottom and 50 on ...
Gallanach Road, The Manorhouse (Hotel) With Lamp Standards, Ice House And Boundary Walls 56°24′40″N 5°28′58″W / 56.411191°N 5.482879°W / 56.411191; -5.482879 ( Gallanach Road, The Manorhouse (Hotel) With Lamp Standards, Ice House And Boundary
The current building was intended to replace an earlier courthouse and prison in Argyll Square, which had been designed by David Rhind and completed in 1856. [2] [3] In the 1880s the Argyll Commissioners of Supply decided to procure a more substantial courthouse for the county. The site they selected was on the southeast side of Albany Street. [4]
Oban (/ ˈ oʊ b ə n / ⓘ OH-bən; [3] Scottish Gaelic: An t-Òban [ən̪ˠ ˈt̪ɔːpan] meaning The Little Bay) is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland.
The house lay derelict until 1988, when it was purchased by Mr and Mrs Brian John Reid, of Oban. Without their intervention, the historic house would almost certainly have been lost. Since about 1990 Barcaldine has been a luxury hotel and a popular wedding venue with eight en suite rooms in the main house and the wings converted to self ...
Times Guide to the House of Commons 1983 (London: Times Books, 1984). Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987 (London: Times Books, 1988). Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs ; Roth, Andrew "Obituary: Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish", The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
The island is known for the ruined Gylen Castle, a small tower house built in 1582.It was also the place where Alexander II of Scotland died in 1249. The artist J. M. W. Turner visited Kerrera in 1831 and made 25 sketches of the castle [9] which are in the Tate Gallery, London.
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