Pollok House picspam
As promised, Pollok House picspam for GarrowGirls! joyful_molly badgered me into watching season two of Garrow's Law and I have to say I was fair taken by it. I still have a wee sniffle every time I think of Captain Jones and Mr Jaskers' touching reunion in the prison cell.
As I live just up the road from Pollok House and park where a lot of the series was filmed, I promised to go and take some pics. And I must say that the house and estate buildings were looking very festive in the snow. Unfortunately as well as being very picturesque it was also bloody freezing! So apologies for some of the pics being a bit out of focus, it was so cold I could barely hold my camera :} I didn't have time to go into the house this time round but I'll try and take some interior shots next time.
Designed and built by William Adam in 1752 Pollok House is a beautifully preserved example of a Georgian country manor house. The house and estate were originally the home of the Maxwell family, who had connections with the area dating back to the 13th century. In 1966 Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald gifted the house and much of the estate to the National Trust and the City of Glasgow. The house has a fine collection of Golden Age Spanish art and some important works by El Greco, Goya and William Blake. Pollok Park has formal gardens, woods and open farm land and is home to a large herd of Highland cattle and a team of beautiful Clydesdale shire horses.
White Cart River
Pollok House
Stable Buildings
Stable Arch
Stable Courtyard (disused side)
Stable Courtyard
As far as I could make out more than a few of the exterior street scenes were filmed in the stable courtyard. It certainly doubled as the courtyard of Greenwich Hospital in Episode 3. The lovely thing about these stables is that they are still home to the estate's team of Clydesdale shire horses, one of which can be seen walking past Captain Bailie into the courtyard in Episode 3. Two sides of the courtyard are boarded up, one side is taken up by the stables and one side is cottages for estate workers. Sorry fingers were seriously cold by this stage!
This is the "back door" to Pollok House and it is actually the main entrance which leads into the hall way with black and white tiled floor and double stairs. Lady Sarah is seen standing at the top of the stairs in episode 2 (I think). Sir Arthur and Lord Melville are also seen loitering outside this entrance in episodes 3.
Sadly I didn't find any dashing lawyers wondering around the park, perhaps they were all inside keeping warm!
As I live just up the road from Pollok House and park where a lot of the series was filmed, I promised to go and take some pics. And I must say that the house and estate buildings were looking very festive in the snow. Unfortunately as well as being very picturesque it was also bloody freezing! So apologies for some of the pics being a bit out of focus, it was so cold I could barely hold my camera :} I didn't have time to go into the house this time round but I'll try and take some interior shots next time.
Designed and built by William Adam in 1752 Pollok House is a beautifully preserved example of a Georgian country manor house. The house and estate were originally the home of the Maxwell family, who had connections with the area dating back to the 13th century. In 1966 Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald gifted the house and much of the estate to the National Trust and the City of Glasgow. The house has a fine collection of Golden Age Spanish art and some important works by El Greco, Goya and William Blake. Pollok Park has formal gardens, woods and open farm land and is home to a large herd of Highland cattle and a team of beautiful Clydesdale shire horses.
White Cart River
Pollok House
Stable Buildings
Stable Arch
Stable Courtyard (disused side)
Stable Courtyard
As far as I could make out more than a few of the exterior street scenes were filmed in the stable courtyard. It certainly doubled as the courtyard of Greenwich Hospital in Episode 3. The lovely thing about these stables is that they are still home to the estate's team of Clydesdale shire horses, one of which can be seen walking past Captain Bailie into the courtyard in Episode 3. Two sides of the courtyard are boarded up, one side is taken up by the stables and one side is cottages for estate workers. Sorry fingers were seriously cold by this stage!
This is the "back door" to Pollok House and it is actually the main entrance which leads into the hall way with black and white tiled floor and double stairs. Lady Sarah is seen standing at the top of the stairs in episode 2 (I think). Sir Arthur and Lord Melville are also seen loitering outside this entrance in episodes 3.
Sadly I didn't find any dashing lawyers wondering around the park, perhaps they were all inside keeping warm!