Today's photo with the most hits: this Edwardian enamel bath, complete with patented plug hole drain, and mildly peaty water. Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: an oddity.
Herewith a deep Edwardian bath with its original fittings - Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, Scotland. The water is sometimes peaty: don't be alarmed 👌🏻
Today’s photo: Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, Scotland.
Built by George Bullough (think Accrington cotton magnate with rarified tastes and fat bank balance) as a pleasure-palace-cum-personal-fief, the island and castle were subsequently sold to Nature Conservancy for a paltry sum, and later passed to Scottish National Heritage.
Unfortunately, the castle of slowly falling to bits.
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits was taken at the TITANIC Museum in Belfast. It’s a seabed photo of Captain Smith’s bathroom - the tub and its control taps startlingly visible. Looking at the surviving pipework: he had a bath like this one (this shot taken in Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum).
Here’s the low down on this fabulous piece of Victorian fancy...
Today’s Flickr photo(s) with the most hits show the Orchestrion in the drawing room of Kinloch Castle on the Isle of Rum, off the west coast of Scotland. The island, and its fanciful Edwardian castle, were the summer home of the fabulously wealthy Bullough family, who made their money in cotton manufacture. The orchestrion was, in essence, a gargantuan mechanical music player. It was built for Queen Victoria but she died before taking delivery and the Bulloughs bought it and installed it in the castle.
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits - this portrait of Monica Bullough, wife of Sir George Bullough, later 1st baronet of the Isle of Rhum and of Down House. The portrait may be seen in Kinloch Castle on the Isle of Rum. Theirs is a remarkable tale of late Victoriana.
For a snapshot: http://www.isleofrum.com/isleofrumheritag.php
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits is a curious one: one of the deep, Victorian baths in Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, Scotland.
Here’s an oddment to top the Flickr chart - a portrait of Monica, Lady Bullough, to be found in Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum. George and his Mrs were an extraordinarily plutocratic couple in Edwardian England. The story behind Rum, Kinloch and their curous life is well worth reading up on. George inherited his fortune from his dad - who in turn made it from cotton - he was owner of the Globe Works, Accrington, Lancashire - a few miles from my home.
Today’s Flickr Pic with the most hits -
The view to Kinloch Castle, on the walk to Dibidil, Rum.
Today’s Poll Topper -
The drawing room of Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum