Pollok House
Georgian country mansion with Spanish paintings, Edwardian pavilions and riverside parkland walks.
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This guide to Pollok House in Glasgow begins on a winter's day in the woods across the White Cart Water, when the Stirling Maxwells walked onto a freshly made curling pond with stones in hand. It follows Sir John Stirling Maxwell, the laird who inherited the estate at twenty-one, and the games of curling, billiards and bowls that grew up around his family's land. Best heard on the gravel in front of the house, facing its low west pavilion.
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