Garden
Dr Neil's Garden
Loch-side botanical retreat built around an eighteen-twenty-five curling clubhouse turned curling museum.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Dr Neil's Garden in Edinburgh opens on the loch's edge with a question: could a handful of freezing Edinburgh gentlemen really have written curling rules the sport still follows worldwide? It follows the Duddingston Curling Society back to eighteen-oh-three, the architect William Henry Playfair's octagonal tower built to keep their stones cold, and the minister who later borrowed its upper room as a painting studio. Listen for why that tower carries his name instead of the curling club's.
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