TOURS, TALKS & EXPERIENCES
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Millers & Merchants Tours are running throughout 2023. Booking Is Now Open - see below.
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‘History, Style, Lace & Banking’
Throughout the year a variety of tours, talks and experiences take place at Lamlash House. Below illustrates our current offerings.
Lamlash House - The House Tour
Lamlash House in Newmilns, was built in 1890. Tours of Lamlash House take place throughout the year on a regular basis. House Tour provides an insight into the Victorian Grade B Listed property.
Exploring it’s history, architecture, links with the lace industry and its former banking past, this two hour long tour provides a fascinating look at the by-gone life of the house and its purpose in the Irvine Valley in Ayrshire.
This tour lasts around two hours.
Tours must be booked in advance. Some tour dates include the option for refreshments or lunch. See the Diary of Events for future dates and further information.
Millers & Merchants Tour
Lamlash House, in association with Tasting History Ayrshire Tours (THAT co.) presents the Millers and Merchants Tour - an opportunity to obtain a unique glimpse into the fascinating history of Ayrshire's textile and lace production and to visit a current lace manufacturer who is still utilising original Victorian methods. It is also an opportunity to visit Lamlash House, formerly an operational bank for 124 years and adjoining bank manager’s house which has links with the lace industry.
This tour allows you to step back in time to see how the textile and lace manufacturing industry of the past influenced fashion, trade and benefitted other local businesses. You will also be able to see lace being manufactured using traditional Victorian methods.
This tour includes lunch at Lamlash House and is an animated experience. More information is available here. See the Diary of Events for future dates.
MILLERS & MERCHANTS VICTORIAN SUMMER
Visit Lamlash House and be transported guests back to the summer of 1901.
Lydia and Robert Carmichael Mitchell, from 1901, invite select guests to join them at their annual Garden Party in the Walled Garden of Lamlash House. Guests enjoy conversation, relaxation, finger sandwiches, cakes and scones.
Mrs Mitchell always has her finest bone china teacups and saucers to serve tea and croquet is played on the lawn.
Lamlash House in Newmilns, was built in 1890. It is a former bank manager’s house, which provided a banking service to local businesses and to the lace mills further down the road. The original owner of Lamlash House had a family connection to Joseph Hood, a pioneer of the mechanisation of the lace looms.
See the Diary of Events for future dates.
THROUGH ROSE TINTED GLASS
The staircase at Lamlash House boasts an unrivalled domestic collection of stained Glass windows which were commissioned from Stephen Adam in 1888.
The illustrated talk `Through Rose Tinted Glass' provides an overview of the signifance and symbolism associated with the work together with an account of the recent restoration of the windows.
This illustrated talk and tour of the stained glass windows lasts around one and a half hours.
See the Diary of Events for future dates and further information.
LAMLASH HOUSE THROUGH TIME
Join the owners of Lamlash House as they take you on a journey through time in this illustrated talk and house tour. You will be given an insight into the man who had the vision to build the Victorian Listed Building, get to hear about his family, the events which shaped the family’s life and then go on a journey through time meeting the other residents and bank staff who subequently lived in Lamlash House. This journey will take you from the Victorian era to present day.
Many years of research have gone into obtaining the facts for this illustrated talk which brings the history of the house to life.
This illustrated talk and tour lasts around one and a half hours.
See the Diary of Events for future dates and further information.
TEATIME TALES
The Banking Hall decor at Lamlash House has been inspired by the White Luncheon Room at Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tearooms in Glasgow around 1900.
The illustrated talk 'Teatime Tales' provides an insight into taking tea in Victorian Glasgow and an overview of the decorative schemes which were developed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh specifically for his client Miss Cranston at that time.
This illustrated talk lasts around one hour after which, refreshments will be served.
See the Diary of Events for future dates and further information.
