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Publication Account
Date 1987
Event ID 1016818
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1016818
The Museum occupies a terrace of six cottages, which was erected by the Earl of Strathmore in 1793 and presented to the National Trust for Scotland in 1957. Angus Folk Museum, Glamis (no. 1) The Trust restored the buildings adapting them to house the Angus Folk Museum. The collection was already in existence, having been assembled by Jean, Lady Maitland, aided by her husband, Sir Ramsay Maitland of Bum side, and given into the Trust's care in 1974. The museum was extended in 1976 by the addition of an agricultural gallery situated on the other side of the Kirkwynd from the cottages.
The Kirkwynd cottages contain: Madge Taylor's kitchen from Craichie; a Victorian farmhouse parlour; a 19th century laundry; a schoolhouse; handlooms for weaving damask linen; musical instruments; and household equipment. The agricultural annexe contains: a collection of agricultural implements and tools; a forge from Eassie Smiddy; a wheel-ringing stone, converted from a damaged whin millstone, from Whigstreet Smiddy; and a typical Angus farmworkers' bothy.
Glamis village is worthy of attention, forming a natural extension to the Folk Museum. The churchyard contains some fme 18th century tradesmen's tombstones. There is a Pictish cross-slab in the garden of the manse between the museum and the church (no. 75). The ground to the east of the museum has been in use as an estate nursery since the early 18th century. The houses and hotel in the main street date mainly from the second half of the 18 th century when the Earl ofStrathmore carried out extensive rebuilding. These buildings carry some fme datestones and mason's marks. The deserted watermill on the west bank of the Glamis Bum also dates from the 18th century. The materials used in the construction of these buildings were all produced locally. The estate had a number of freestone quarries, and many of the tenants paid part of their rents in grey slate for roofs, flagstones or roof ridge stones. Millstones and oven soles were quarried to the south of the village. The estate also had a small brickworks to the north of the castle near Haughs of Cossans. The estate influence was considerable and the village should be considered in relation to Glamis Castle (no. 38).
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Fife and Tayside’, (1987).
