Hamilton Mausoleum
Hamilton Mausoleum is a mausoleum located in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was the resting place of the family of the Dukes of Hamilton. Built in the grounds of the now-demolished Hamilton Palace, its high stone vault previously held the record for the longest echo of any man-made structure in the world, taking 15 seconds for the sound of a slammed door to decay.
Life and Death at Hamilton Mausoleum | Dig It! TV
Why has an Egyptian sarcophagus been buried in Lanarkshire? Where can you marvel at immense bronze doors modelled on those in the Florentine baptistery? How did our industrial heritage force the evacuation of an entire crypt? Step inside this unique building in South Lanarkshire and find out!
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Places to see in ( Hamilton - UK )
Places to see in ( Hamilton - UK )
Hamilton is a town in South Lanarkshire, in the central Lowlands of Scotland. Hamilton serves as the main administrative centre of the South Lanarkshire council area. Hamilton is the fourth-biggest town in Scotland.
Hamilton sits 12 miles (19 km) south-east of Glasgow, 35 miles (56 km) south-west of Edinburgh and 74 miles (120 km) north of Carlisle, Cumbria. Hamilton is situated on the south bank of the River Clyde at its confluence with the Avon Water. Hamilton is the later county town of Lanarkshire which was preceded anciently by Lanark.
The Hamiltons constructed many landmark buildings in the area including the Hamilton Mausoleum in Strathclyde Park, which has the longest echo of any building in the world. The Hamilton family are major land-owners in the area to this day. Hamilton Palace was the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton until the early-twentieth century.
Other historic buildings in the area include Hamilton Old Parish Church, a Georgian era building completed in 1734 and the only church to have been built by William Adam. The graveyard of the old parish church contains some Covenanter remains. The former Edwardian Town Hall now houses the library and concert hall. The Townhouse complex underwent a sympathetic modernization in 2002 and opened to the public in summer 2004. The ruins of Cadzow Castle also lie in Chatelherault Country Park, 2 miles (3 km) from the town centre.
Hamilton Palace was the largest non-royal residence in the Western world, located in the north-east of the town. A former seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, it was built in 1695, subsequently much enlarged, and demolished in 1921 due to ground subsidence. It is widely acknowledged as having been one of the grandest houses in Scotland, was visited and admired by Queen Victoria, and was written about by Daniel Defoe.
Hamilton Barracks was formerly the Depot of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and the home of the 1st Battalion of the Regiment. The Regimental Museum is part of the Low Parks Museum. The Low Parks Museum is housed in what was a 16th-century inn and a staging post for journeys between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Recently refurbished, it is the oldest building in Hamilton and is to the north of the Palace Grounds.
By road the town is to the west of the M74 motorway, the main southerly link to England, which joins the M6 just north of Carlisle. The main route from Edinburgh is the M8, leaving at junctions 6 or 7.
Areas of Hamilton:
Avongrove
Burnbank
Barncluith
Earnock Estate
Earnock Glen
Fernigar
Eddlewood
Fairhill
Hamilton West
High Earnock
Hillhouse
Laighstonehall
Little Earnock
Low Waters
Meikle Earnock
Neilsland
Silvertonhill
Torheads Farm
Whitehill
Woodhead
Hamilton has three railway stations, Hamilton Central, Hamilton West and Chatelherault on the Argyle Line's Hamilton Circle. Hamilton Central is 22 minutes from Glasgow on the limited stop Larkhall-Dalmuir service. It was once served by the North British Railway, which had three stations in the area. Hamilton (NBR), Peacock Cross railway station and Burnbank. Beside Hamilton Central lies Hamilton bus station, providing links to surrounding towns and cities, also offering an express bus to Glasgow and also some parts of England.
( Hamilton - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Hamilton . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Hamilton - UK
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Hamilton Mausoleum Keepers House 2017 [Abandoned }
Abandoned house in hamilton Scotland in very poor state
Chatelherault and Hamilton Mausoleum
This video is about Chatelherault and Hamilton Mausoleum
Hamilton
A quick trip around Hamilton in Lanarkshire Scotland.
Including the Town Centre, Mausoleum, Strathclyde Country Park, the Town Hall, Peacock Cross, and Holy Cross High.
The music is Not Leavin' by G-Jay.
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inside the Hamilton mausoleum world famous echo
a look at the inside of the Hamilton mausoleum with its world famous echo its high stone vault reputedly gives this building the longest lasting echo of any man-made structure in the world.
Chatelherault Country Park near Hamilton, Scotland
Quick clip of a place where I spend my childhood. Lots of mountain biking was done here!!
Old Photographs Hamilton South Lanarkshire Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Hamilton, a town in South Lanarkshire, in the central Lowlands. This is the fifth largest Scottish town, excluding cities, after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld. The town of Hamilton was originally known as Cadzow. Cadzow was renamed Hamilton in the time of James, Lord Hamilton, who was married to Princess Mary, the daughter of King James II. Hamilton is twinned with Châtellerault in France. This connection dates from the 16th century when the title Duc de Châtellerault was conferred on James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran. Hamilton has three railway stations, Hamilton Central, Hamilton West and Chatelherault on the Argyle Line's Hamilton Circle. Hamilton Central is 22 minutes from Glasgow on the limited stop Larkhall Dalmuir service. It was once served by the North British Railway, which had three stations in the area. Hamilton, Peacock Cross railway station and Burnbank. Beside Hamilton Central lies Hamilton bus station, providing links to surrounding towns and cities, also offering an express bus to Glasgow and also some parts of England. Cycling paths run from Strathclyde Park to Chatelherault Country Park following the banks of the Clyde and Avon. These are being expanded at part of the Sustrans Connect2 project and will make up part of the National Cycle Route 74 which will run from Uddingston to Carlisle, Cumbria.
Hamilton HD
A quick trip around Hamilton, Lanarkshire in Scotland. This first take video is filmed without a tripod, plan to refilm it and improve the quality of it at a later date. Video includes Town Centre, Town Hall, Old Parish Church, Hamilton Central Station, Hamilton Grammar, Hamilton Accies FC, Peacock Cross, Quarry Street and much more.
Vlog 9, Hamilton, Scotland Nana's Mothers Birth Place & Visiting Her Church
Apologises for Shakiness! and Lighting was terrible!
6 Countries 22 Destinations in just under 6 weeks around Europe.
Flew my Nana over from New Zealand for a trip of a life time.
More video's to come within time.
So much Happiness, Laughter and Mischief to share with all of you. I cant wait to share the rest!
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Francis Macdonald - Hamilton Mausoleum Suite
This is a short film about the recording of the Hamilton Mausoleum Suite album.
Sublime (UNCUT)
Solemn, stirring beauty ★★★★ (MOJO)
It was shot by Mark Boggis and Charlie Francis and edited and directed by Charlie Francis.
The album was composed, arranged & produced by Francis Macdonald and features soloists from The Scottish Festival Orchestra:
Violin – Justine Watts
Violin – Stewart Webster
Viola – Emma Peebles
Cello – John Davidson
Harp – Sharron Griffiths
Hamilton Mausoleum Suite can be ordered at francismacdonald.tmstor.es
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The famous Mauseleum of Duke Hamilton in Scotland, พาส่อง สุสานของขุนนาง อแล๊กชานเดอร์
Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, (3 October 1767 – 18 August 1852) Born 3thd October 1767 at St. James's Square, London, a son of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton, he was educated at Harrow School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated on 4 March 1786. He received his MA on 18 February 1789.
Hamilton was a Whig, and his political career began in 1802, when he became MP for Lancaster. He remained in the House of Commons until 1806, when he was appointed to the Privy Council, and Ambassador to the court of St. Petersburg until 1807; additionally, he was Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire from 1802 to 1852. He received the numerous titles at his father's death in 1819. He was Lord High Steward at King William IV's coronation in 1831 and Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838, and remains the last person to have undertaken this duty twice. He became a Knight of the Garter in 1836. He held the office of Grand Master Mason of the Freemasons of Scotland between 1820 and 1822. He held the office of President of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland between 1827 and 1831. He held the office of Trustee of the British Museum between 1834 and 1852.
Alexander Hamilton at age 15, in a painting by Joshua Reynolds.
He married Susan Euphemia Beckford, daughter of William Thomas Beckford and Lady Margaret Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne, on 26 April 1810 in London, England.
Hamilton was a well-known dandy of his day. An obituary notice states that timidity and variableness of temperament prevented his rendering much service to, or being much relied on by his party ... With a great predisposition to over-estimate the importance of ancient birth ... he well deserved to be considered the proudest man in England. He also supported Napoleon and commissioned the painting The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David.
Lord Lamington, in The Days of the Dandies, wrote of him that 'never was such a magnifico as the 10th Duke, the Ambassador to the Empress Catherine; when I knew him he was very old, but held himself straight as any grenadier. He was always dressed in a military laced undress coat, tights and Hessian boots, &c'. Lady Stafford in letters to her son mentioned 'his great Coat, long Queue, and Fingers cover'd with gold Rings', and his foreign appearance. According to another obituary, this time in Gentleman's Magazine he had 'an intense family pride'.
10th Duke of Hamilton by Willes Maddox painted in 1852.
Hamilton had a strong interest in Ancient Egyptian mummies, and was so impressed with the work of mummy expert Thomas Pettigrew that he arranged for Pettigrew to mummify him after his death. He died on 18 August 1852 at age 84 at 12 Portman Square, London, England and was buried on 4 September 1852 at Hamilton Palace, Hamilton, Scotland. In accordance with his wishes, Hamilton's body was mummified after his death and placed in a sarcophagus of the Ptolemaic period that he had originally acquired in Paris in 1836 ostensibly for the British Museum. At the same time he had acquired the sarcophagus of Pabasa, an important noblemen which is now in the Kelvingrove Museum.
The final flourish was his coffin. This was the sarcophagus of an Egyptian princess, which had been purchased by the Duke for £11,000, an absolute bloody fortune at the time. unfortunately it became apparent that there was a considerable difference in height between the good Duke and the unfortunate princess who was to give up her coffin for him.
The only way that they could fit his body was to cut his legs off at the knees. And so they did! In 1842 Hamilton had begun construction of the Hamilton Mausoleum as repository for the overcrowded family vault at the Palace. He was interred there with other Dukes of Hamilton, from the 1858 completion of the Mausoleum until 1921 when subsidence and the subsequent demolition of the Palace forced removal of the bodies to the Bent cemetery in Hamilton, where he still lies buried in his sarcophagus.
His collection of paintings, objects, books and manuscripts was sold for £397,562 in July 1882. The manuscripts were purchased by the German government for £80,000. Some were repurchased by the British government and are now in the British Museum...
Hamilton Mausoleum by night
Friday 28th October 2016 saw the annual Halloween by Torchlight tour of the Hamilton Mausoleum.
Peter Govan Hamilton Mausoleum
Chatelherault
The People's History Show - S03E05
Fergus Sutherland explores the world's grandest hunting lodge and dog kennel, Hamilton's beautiful Charleherault.
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Curator's Pick: Hamilton-Rothschild Tazza
Dr Godfrey Evans, Principal Curator of European Decorative Art, introduces us to the Hamilton-Rothschild tazza, one of the great treasures from Hamilton Palace.
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Dash Cam Footage of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Dash Cam Footage of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
General dash cam footage of no particular area of Hamilton, which is located in South Lancashire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Snowday on M74 and Hamilton 6th December 2010
Although nothing like snowdays in the northern regions like the highlands, South Lanarkshire council werent prepared for today. As about 2ft of snow fell in an hour, it crippled the roads in and around Lanarkshire.
This video is all in Hamilton.
Snowing at ma bit ( house) in Hamilton, Scotland