Balintore Castle Restoration Project

The roof of Balintore Castle is a complex landscape of apexes, valleys, eaves, towers, finials, viewing platforms and turrets. While this gi...

The picture below shows the external scaffolding currently in place on the east elevation, that has been erected to fix a leak in the lead b...

Many thanks to the friends who emailed this scanned image to me today. This is the first time I have seen a detailed picture of the dining ...

Balintore Castle was built in 1860 for a David Lyon (1794-1872). His name is still to be found on the building as the initials "D. L....

Prologue This is a story from 2009. I put it on Facebook at the time, but decided it also deserves to be  on this blog,  to remain as a mo...

A chilling tale of what could have happened at Balintore Castle, had not the vote at Tuesday's meeting gone our way ...... Anyone who...

Angus Council recently recommended proceeding with Carrach Wind Farm :-( . Our four year struggle to save the natural beauty of this area an...