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Mingary Castle: Grand Staircase Installed
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The Mingary Castle restoration blog was written by Jon Haylett, who lives in the local village of Kilchoan. Now that restoration is almost complete Holly and Chris Bull will take over to report on bringing the Castle back to life. Thursday, 6 August 2015. The stone wall building machine was still at it when I arrived at the castle yesterday morning on another damp day - not that the weathers seems to affect the cheerfulness of those working there, nor does it slow the pace of work. Go on - be a part of it.
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Mingary Castle: November 2014
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The Mingary Castle restoration blog was written by Jon Haylett, who lives in the local village of Kilchoan. Now that restoration is almost complete Holly and Chris Bull will take over to report on bringing the Castle back to life. Saturday, 29 November 2014. There's still some way to go however. The windows have a couple of layers of paint to go on them, which will be a slightly lighter shade of grey, there is some leadwork to be completed, and. The last three weeks' fine weather has helped, so there hav...
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Mingary Castle: Stone Walls
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The Mingary Castle restoration blog was written by Jon Haylett, who lives in the local village of Kilchoan. Now that restoration is almost complete Holly and Chris Bull will take over to report on bringing the Castle back to life. Friday, 31 July 2015. I love this view of the castle. It's a brute of a building, solid, uncompromising and simply beautiful - and the view is being enhanced by stonemason Damien, who is a stone wall building machine. He's just visible at bottom right. By comparison with the ex...
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Mingary Castle: July 2015
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The Mingary Castle restoration blog was written by Jon Haylett, who lives in the local village of Kilchoan. Now that restoration is almost complete Holly and Chris Bull will take over to report on bringing the Castle back to life. Friday, 31 July 2015. I love this view of the castle. It's a brute of a building, solid, uncompromising and simply beautiful - and the view is being enhanced by stonemason Damien, who is a stone wall building machine. He's just visible at bottom right. By comparison with the ex...
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Balintore Castle Restoration Project: October 2014
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Balintore Castle Restoration Project. Saturday, 18 October 2014. Castles Home and Away: Part Seven. This is the seventh and last blog entry describing the seven places of interest visited on a West Highland road trip earlier in the year. The last place of interest visited was Ardnamuchan Point. As Andrew and I were leaving Mingary Castle for home, we saw the brown sign saying Ardnamuchan Point was only 5 miles away. We had come this far, so on a total whim we decided to go for it. In fact a lot of the dr...
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Mingary Castle: August 2015
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The Mingary Castle restoration blog was written by Jon Haylett, who lives in the local village of Kilchoan. Now that restoration is almost complete Holly and Chris Bull will take over to report on bringing the Castle back to life. Thursday, 27 August 2015. The scaffolding is now down throughout the courtyard so the full impact of the harling can be appreciated. Despite the lack of sun, the courtyard is much lighter, and the buildings seem more imposing. All the lead hoppers and downpipes are in place, an...
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Mingary Castle: Landscaping
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The Mingary Castle restoration blog was written by Jon Haylett, who lives in the local village of Kilchoan. Now that restoration is almost complete Holly and Chris Bull will take over to report on bringing the Castle back to life. Friday, 10 July 2015. A road is being put through here to give access to the shoreline just to the east of the castle. All the offices, storage containers, loose building materials and temporary caravans have been removed since last week to allow work to start on landscaping th...
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Mingary Castle: March 2015
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The Mingary Castle restoration blog was written by Jon Haylett, who lives in the local village of Kilchoan. Now that restoration is almost complete Holly and Chris Bull will take over to report on bringing the Castle back to life. Friday, 27 March 2015. Has now been covered with lead, and the Chandlers, Mark, Martin and Graham, who have made such a neat job of the roofs and their associated leadwork, their work done, left the site on Wednesday. Thursday, 19 March 2015. After last Thursday's storm, the we...
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Mingary Castle: December 2014
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The Mingary Castle restoration blog was written by Jon Haylett, who lives in the local village of Kilchoan. Now that restoration is almost complete Holly and Chris Bull will take over to report on bringing the Castle back to life. Monday, 15 December 2014. The gap in the centre of the photo is where an early flight of stairs rose from the courtyard to the battlements, but these were largely removed when this range was originally built. The other room on the ground floor in the west range is much smaller&...
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Mingary Castle: January 2015
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The Mingary Castle restoration blog was written by Jon Haylett, who lives in the local village of Kilchoan. Now that restoration is almost complete Holly and Chris Bull will take over to report on bringing the Castle back to life. Friday, 30 January 2015. This was the view yesterday morning from the scaffolding looking east towards Ben Hiant as another snow shower cleared away. It's making for pretty miserable conditions on site, not that. Because of the weather, most of the Ashley-Thompson workforce is ...
