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Interior View of Cool Room from N Digital image of SU/751/cn
SC 772644
Description Interior View of Cool Room from N Digital image of SU/751/cn
Date 1982
Catalogue Number SC 772644
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of SU 751 CN
Scope and Content Cool room, Dairy House, Skibo Castle, Highland This shows the cool room of the dairy wing which was built c.1900. The broad marble shelves have a lip to hold water which was used to keep dairy products cool. The water would flow from the tap on the left along the work surface and down the drain on the other side. Containers could be stored on the wooden shelves below. The remains of roller blinds used to stop sunlight coming into the room are above the windows. The dairy on the estate made milk products by using milk from cows kept on the home farm. Traditionally the dairymaid would be responsible for separating the cream from the milk and for making butter and cheese. However, at Skibo Castle, there was probably more than one dairymaid as Andrew Carnegie employed around 85 servants. The mass production of dairy products in factories from the 19th century and the hygiene laws of the 20th century meant the end of country houses dairies. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born in Scotland and made a fortune in the steel industry in the United States of America. Once his daughter was born he decided that she should have a Scottish home, and at the end of the 19th century he bought a large Baronial house at Skibo built in 1880 by Clarke & Bell. In addition to the £85,000 purchase price, he spent a further £2 million in the creation of an even larger mansion, constructed between 1899 and 1903 to the designs of Ross & Macbeth. In 1981 his daughter Margaret decided to sell the estate, and the castle lay empty until 1990 when Peter de Savary paid £10 million for the castle and the 2,832-hectare estate. Some £30 million was then invested in its transformation into the Carnegie Club, a private residential golf and sporting club. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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