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Interior Detail of cream separator in Wash Room Digital image of SU/855
SC 772704
Description Interior Detail of cream separator in Wash Room Digital image of SU/855
Date 1982
Catalogue Number SC 772704
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of SU 855
Scope and Content Cream separator, Wash-room, Dairy House, Skibo Castle, Highland This shows an electrically-powered cream separator which was made by R A Lister & Company Limited of Dursley, England in the c.1900 dairy house. The machine was used to separate fresh whole milk into cream and skimmed milk. The electric motor turned the arm at the top of the machine on which a bowl containing fresh milk was placed. Cream remained in the centre of the rotating bowl and the skimmed milk moved to the outer rim. New milk added to the bowl forced the cream and skimmed milk into separate bowls at the bottom of the machine. The dairy room is where butter and cheese would be made and cream separated from the milk. These products would then be placed in the cool room to keep them fresh. 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 house 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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