Entries by Redgate Consultants

Kensington Square, London

A summer day in 2014: the garden in Kensington Square, London, where Georgiana went to school. Discovering where she was educated and finding that the area has changed so little since 1821 was one of the most rewarding times.

Colours of the Gareloch

The pebble beach at Roseneath (Rosneath) at the place where Georgiana would have taken the ferry between the home of the Reverend and Mrs Story (Helen Boyle Dunlop) and Keppoch House, where she was staying with the Dunlop family.

The Gareloch

Visitors to the Gareloch have tried to describe its beauty for centuries and each time I go there I feel lost for words. This 19th century description comes close to capturing what Georgiana saw around her each day. “Whether it be in summer, when not a cloud rests on the blue ether of the sky, […]

The ruins of St Modan’s, Roseneath

The ‘barn-like’ church was cold, uncomfortable and bare of decoration, with an earth floor. Crofters walked for up to an hour to attend Sunday service and washed their feet in the cold water of the Clachan burn before entering. After enriching their souls, many of them warmed their bodies with a few drams of illegal […]

The old graveyard, St Modan’s, Roseneath

Each time we go back to Scotland I take more photographs of the grave inscriptions, the ones that were there when Georgiana was staying at the original manse and the graves of her friends who died after she left for Western Australia. The oldest gravestones in that ancient community bear only images, not words. Georgiana […]

The Gareloch seen from the hill behind the old manse

View of the Gareloch from the hill behind the manse where Reverend Robert Story (senior) and his wife Helen were living in 1829 when Georgiana stayed there with them. She walked often on the hill, and went there after she’d accepted John Molloy’s proposal of marriage to think over her decision.

Ruins of the old pier, Kilcreggan

I knew that ferries took people and stock between the small villages on the Roseneath peninsula- there were few roads in the region at that time – and Georgiana drew a sketch of Kilcreggan in her diary. The pier there was a stopping off place for the ‘wherry boat’ and in 2014 we went there […]

Keppoch House

Georgiana was standing with Margaret Dunlop looking out from the front steps of the ‘portico’ when she saw John Molloy, her future husband, arriving in his carriage for their wedding.