Balintore Castle Restoration Project

I wrote a blog article last year on how to remove a watermark from a digital scan of a contemporaneous drawing of Balintore Castle. I needn...

When my friends inside the Landmark Trust invited me to visit the Old Parsonage in Oxford this weekend, there was no prospect of me refusin...

One of the utter delights of restoring an "at risk" building is meeting and making friends with like-minded individuals. I am inde...

Just 100 yards from where I am currently working is a hostelry called "The Counting House". It was built in 1893, on top of the f...

Thanks to friend of Balintore Emma for pointing out that Balintore Castle is currently feeling the love on "Visit Scotland" on ...

I managed to get the photographs from the Storrier family archive (mentioned in a previous blog post ) scanned in by the Angus Archives las...

While replacing the third of three plastic downpipes on the exterior of the kitchen wing with cast iron ones, we hit a problem. The ground ...