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childhood home of the late
Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother, and her former bed­
room can be viewed, including
a youthful portrait by Henri de
Laszlo (1878–1956).
Many rooms are open to the
public, including Duncan’s Hall,
the oldest in the castle and
Shakespeare’s setting for the
king’s murder in Macbeth. The
rooms present china, paintings,
tapes tries and furniture spanning
500 years. In the grounds stands
a pair of wrought­ iron gates
made for the Queen Mother on
her 80th birthday in 1980.
View of St Andrews over the ruins of the cathedral
0 Dundee
of Design by architect Kengo q St Andrews
Tayside. * 147,300. ~ 3 @ n
16 City Square (01382) 527527. ( Kuma is under construction on Fife. * 17,000. 3 Leuchars. £
farmers’ market 3rd Sat of month (May– the waterfront and due to open n 70 Market St (01334) 472021.
Oct). ∑ visitangus.com by 2018. It will showcase Scottish ∑ standrews.co.uk
and international design.
Famous for its fruit cake and Scotland’s oldest university
marmalade, the city of Dundee Environs town and one­time eccle­
was also a major shipbuilding Along the coast, Arbroath is siastical capital, St Andrews
centre in the 18th and 19th famed for its red stonework, is now a shrine to golfers from
centuries, a period which is abbey and “Arbroath Smokies” all over the world. Its main
recreated at the Victoria Docks. (salted haddock smoked over streets and cobbled alleys,
HMS Unicorn, built in 1824, is a beech and oak fire). Arbroath full of crooked house fronts,
the oldest British­built war ship Abbey displays a copy of The dignified uni versity buildings
still afloat and is fitted as it was Declaration of Arbroath, attesting and medieval churches,
on its last voyage. Berthed at Scotland’s independence. converge on the venerable ruins
Riverside is the royal re search of the 12th­ century cathedral.
ship Discovery. Built here in 1901 E HMS Unicorn Once the largest cathedral in
for the first of Captain Scott’s Victoria Docks, Tel (01382) 200900. Scotland, it was later pillaged
voyages to the Antarctic, the Open Easter–Oct: 10am–5pm daily; for its stones, which were used
Discovery was one of the last sail­ Nov–Mar: noon–4pm Wed–Fri (from to build the town. St Andrews
10am Sat & Sun). & 7 limited.
ing ships to be made in Britain. Castle was built for the town’s
Housed in a Victorian Gothic E Discovery bishops in the year 1200 and
building, the McManus Galleries Discovery Point. Tel (01382) 309 060. the dungeon can still be seen.
provide a glimpse of Dundee’s Open daily. & 7 - 8 by appt. The St Andrews golf courses
industrial heritage, with exhibi t­ E McManus Galleries occupy the land to the west
ions of archaeology and Victorian Albert Institute, Albert Sq. of the city, and each is open
art. The stunning V&A Museum Tel (01382) 307200. Open daily. for a modest fee.
The British Golf Museum,
The Birthplace of Golf which tells how the city’s
Royal and Ancient Golf Club
Scotland’s national game (see pp194–7) was pioneered on the sandy became the ruling arbiter
links around St Andrews. The earliest record of the game being of the game, will delight
played dates from 1457, when golf was banned by James II because golf enthusiasts.
it was interfering with his One of the chief pleasures
subjects’ archery practice. of a visit here is a walk along
Mary, Queen of Scots was the sands, immortalized in
berated in 1568 for playing the film, Chariots of Fire.
immediately after her
husband, Darnley, had + St Andrews Castle
been murdered.
The Scores. Tel (01334) 477196.
Open daily. & 7 8
Mary, Queen of Scots at E British Golf Museum
St Andrews in 1563 Bruce Embankment. Tel (01334)
4600046. Open daily. & 7

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