Glenbuchat Heritage

15 Hall artefacts

Glenbuchat Hall and Bothy Artefacts

Above are pictures of some objects retrieved from the Glenbuchat Hall and Bothy.

1. Whist Cards. The cards used to indicate the’ suit which is trumps’ or ‘no trumps’ during the regular whist drives.

2. The paraffin can used to fill up the paraffin heaters in ore-electricity. The late, George Farquharson hall keeper for fifty years, recalled using this can

3. The ‘Lairds Table’. Possibly the table used by the laird or his representative when they collected the rents from the farmers.

4. The ‘Lairds’ chair. Used when collecting the rents.

5. Steel box with GWB ( James William Barclay ) initials, the purchaser of then Glen in 1900. It is assumed that this was a box for estate papers possibly related to all the various rentals.