South Ayrshire

Went on a trip round Ayrshire yesterday with a couple of friends. Finally paid a visit to Dunure Castle as it had been a place I'd always wanted to visit.

Dunure Castle teetering on the cliffs above the beach on a bright and breezy day in early spring!

Culzean Castle is a castle overlooking the Firth of Clyde, near Maybole, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa, the chief of Clan Kennedy. In 1945, the Kennedy family gave the castle and its grounds to the National Trust for Scotland (thus avoiding inheritance tax). In doing so, they stipulated that the apartment at the top of the castle be given to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in recognition of his role as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War. The General first visited Culzean Castle in 1946 and stayed there four times, including once while President of the United States of America.

The Changing room is a important, complete and extremely rare survival of the bathing complex at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, and is situated adjacent to the Old Bath House where it reflects both the Regency fashion for sea bathing and the Picturesque taste in architectural execution. The changing room emulates a Roman Mausoleum and was built between 1770-1846 for 1st Marquess of Ailsa.

I have been working away for most of the past 6 weeks with photo opportunities (and Flickr activity) severly restricted by my hours. When I first...