Third floor, detail of bell indicator panel Digital image of A/34819

Description Third floor, detail of bell indicator panel Digital image of A/34819

Date 4/1985

Catalogue Number SC 765849

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 34819

Scope and Content Bell indicator panel on the third floor, Kinlochmoidart House, Highland This shows an electric bell indicator panel on the third floor which was made by John Bryden & Sons. The panel was connected by electric cable and bell-pushes to different rooms in the house. If the bell-push was pressed in the morning room the 'bell' on the right would flash and a bell would sound showing that a servant was needed in that room. Country houses could easily be fitted with a wire and lever bell-pull system by the end of the 18th century. Electric servant bell systems were developed in the late 19th century and were a vast improvement on the old system which was liable to become clogged with dust and needed regular servicing. Kinlochmoidart House was built in 1884 for Robert Stewart, distiller and stands on the site of an earlier house which was destroyed by fire in the mid-18th century. William Leiper (1839-1916), designed the house in Scots Baronial style and used local whinstone and red Ballochmyle sandstone in the construction. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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