Traquair House, Peebleshire, Scotland
Jarrold & Sons Ltd. of Norwich, UK, printed and published the unused photo postcard above that has a view from the front. It has the identifier CKTH 10 and the card most likely dates from the 1960s. Privately owned by members of the Jarrold family, The Jarrold Group was founded in 1770 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. It was moved in 1823 and is currently based in Norwich. It is a retail and property company. Beginning in 1823 the company began publishing children’s books. Greeting cards and postcards came later. Like the card shared last week this is one that was provided by K & J along with several others mostly from the United Kingdom.
Jarrold logo found at the top middle on the reverse
Traquair House is the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland. It is not a castle but considered a fortified mansion. Although the house appears to date from about the 15th century the surrounding land was the site of a hunting seat used by Scottish kings from as early as the 12th century. Ownership changed often during the following 200 years, sometimes it was under the English crown and other times the Scottish throne. In the 1500s Lady Janet Douglas married Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord of Ruthven with whom she had several children forming the main Ruthven line. Traquair House remained the family seat of the Earls of Traquair for the next four centuries. In 1875 it passed to a cousin of the Stuarts, Henry Constable Maxwell.
Traquair House Library
Also a Jarrold publication the identifier on this card above is TH 6 and has a photo of the 18th century library.
Traquair House has 50 rooms including a Drawing Room with ancestral portraits and photographs of currents residents; a Museum Room with a mural dating from 1530; The King’s Room, where Mary Queen of Scots stayed in 1556 and which contains relics belonging to her; The Still Room, where breakfast is served; The Dining Room, added in the l7th century; The Library; a Roman Catholic chapel; and, a Brewery that was started in 1965 by Peter Maxwell Stuart. Stuart incorporated the 18th century domestic brewery equipment used earlier to make beer for the house. A range of beers is made in the Brewery such as the Jacobite Ale and House Ale brands. Ale was brewed at Traquair during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. A 200-gallon copper was installed in 1739 the the brew house under the chapel.
The Bear Gates
The fifth Earl, Charles Stuart, installed the Bear Gates, shown on the card above, at the main entrance to the grounds in 1738. The card has the code: PPL/84463/X and was printed by DRG [J. Arthur Dixon, 1897-1958)] in Great Britain. The following poem is printed on the reverse of the card:
"Dool an' sorrow hae fa'en Trquair,
An' the Yetts that were shut at Charlie's comin'
He vowed wad be opened nevermair,
Till a Stuart King was crooned in Lunnon.
Gone are the Stuarts o' auld Traquair
Green is the Avenue rank an' hoary,
An' the Bears look doon wi' an angert glare
On the "Steekit Yetts" an' the vanished glory."
Dixon was a photographer and manufacturer of greeting cards and postcards. Born at Cross Hills, Keighley, Yorkshire in 1897 he bought a small printing business in 1926 and moved to Shaklin on the Isle of Wight where he resided until his death in 1958. It is estimated that he produced nearly 30 million postcards.
Another front view of Traquair House
Many thanks again to K and J for sharing the cards.
For additional information, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traquair_House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jarrold_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Arthur_Dixon
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