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Lauriston Farm
Unknown, 1887, Photograph
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Lauriston Farm
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6281
Title
Lauriston Farm
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1887
Size
10.5 x 15 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This photograph is from a volume entitled 'Photographs of houses in the vicinity of Lauriston Castle' which was compiled in 1909. The book has the armorial bookplate of Macknight Crawfurd of Cartsburn, Lauriston Castle, on the inside cover.
Lauriston Castle and its grounds were purchased by William Robert Reid and his wife Margaret at the end of 1902. They lived at Lauriston from the summer of 1903 until Mr Reid’s death in 1919, and Mrs Reid’s death in 1926 after which the Castle was gifted to the nation. Next door to the castle was Lauriston Farm, part of the wider estate until 1859.
According to the 1911 census the farm was run by two brothers, William and Alexander Allinson, aged 27 and 26 years.
In the early 20th century much of the area along this stretch of coast would still have been fields and estate lands, until new housing estates were built from the 1930s and 1950s. Today the golf course and fields between Lauriston and the shore remain as open ground on the east side of the River Almond.
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