Nostalgic memories of Duntarvie Castle's local history

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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The Bartholomew family was the last family to live in Duntarvie Castle before it became uninhabitable, but, as my cousin, Richard Widdowson, has made some mistakes in relation to dates, I offer the following based on considerable research. The Bartholomew family had farmed the land known as Greendykes on the Hopetoun Estate since 1623 or thereabouts. This ...see more
My grandfather, John Nimmo, was born at Duntarvie Castle on the 5th of September 1866. He farmed the land there until the entire family left and moved into Leith and opened a greengrocer's. I still have his birth certificate. I have a photo, that looks almost exactly the same as this one pictured, taken in July of 1957, on my 7th birthday when we drove out to see the castle.
My grandfather John Bartholomew was born in Duntarvie Caastle in 1848. Because of the spring line which went throught the "field" the house was wet and eventually the estate built a new farmstead - Duntarvie. This was situated just across the fields from the castle. My forbears who farmed this land did not turn the field into plough land - like other fields - but it was used to place cattle, imported from ...see more