Dunmore Pond.

Maker
Unknown
Production date
31 Dec 1860
 Description
East end view of Dunmore Pond, with a curling game in progress. About twenty play a Hogmanay game in a snow-covered landscape, some wearing top or lum hats, others flat caps. One is in the kilt. The sweepers are busy as a game is in progress. A doll's house or kennel is in the background.
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Maker
Production date
31 Dec 1860
Subject person
Subject place
Dunmore Pond/Dunmore Estate/Dunmore/Airth area
Subject notes
This was a match for a gold medal presented by the Earl And Countess Of Southesk, played at Dunmore Pond 31 December 1860, and won by Mr James Turnbull, Castleton.
Dunmore Pond was on the Dunmore Estate, famous for its stone pineapple. Curling has been played for centuries on frozen lochs. Country houses established shallow pools which would freeze easily and allow the game to be played more regularly.

The Royal Caledonian Curling Club was instituted in 1838 for "regulating the ancient Scottish game of Curling". The game exploded in popularity until by the last decades of the nineteenth century almost every parish had its custom-made curling pond.
See p17275 - details to be checked (Turnbull's name, etc)
See Vital records P17274 and P17275 for further information
Accession number
P17274

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