I dropped off my sleeping bag & air mattress at the Glasgow City Mission as a donation. I decided to take the train to the pile known as Linlithgow Palace.
A royal manor existed on the site of the Palace as early as the 12th century. The palace was one of the principal residences of the monarchs of Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries. Unlike a castle this was a pleasure palace not a defensive structure where the royalty went to relax. Although maintained after Scotland’s monarchs left for England in 1603, the palace was little used, and was burned out in 1746. Almost all the wood beams and floors were destroyed and the palace was left as it is today.
Luckily this grand fountain was not ruined and it is now the oldest working fountain in the country.
You can see where the roof beans had been
This is the original floor where Mary Geist gave birth in 1543 to Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary had a tragic life becoming Queen when her father James V died before she was 2 moths old. Eventually she was imprissoned for 19 years by Elizabeth I and was executed for treason in 1587.
The holes in the walls were for the floor beams
One of the few remaining wood beams
Outside the palace is this fountain
The 1st Marquess of Linlithgow by the famous George Frampton
Had the shop not been closed, I would have nearly had the incentive to cut my hair!
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