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Flower Garden

Palace grounds Aug 1863 “our own park”…today not a flower to be seen.

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Lions

These magnificent Lions were the skilled work of Alexander Handyside Ritchie of Edinburgh. A single block of stone for each Lion was quarried at Barmichael quarries of Hamilton transferred to the site by means of skids drawn by the Dukes specially trained Clydesdale horses.

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Sarcophagus

Newspapers report September 6th 1852 In appearance, the sarcophagus has a somewhat rude approach to the outline of a human figure, with an exquisitely chiselled female face at the head. The trunk is etched with birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles, and hieroglyphics. The principal device consists of several female figures in a barge, drawn by a […]