Today I had to take my wife and 2 members of her writing group to the annual Falkirk Writers' Annual Competition.
So once I had dropped them, I drove on to Linlithgow to visit the Palace there and to try out the new camera. The photos will be on this blog.
The lighting wasn't very good. The eye piece is not adjustable which is disappointing. But the camera is a reasonable weight, and it seems straightforward. It will take me a while to get used to it. I could not find a way of changing the scene settings. With the Lumix, I would have switched to sunset mode to give more colour to the photos.
The camera does have Panorama setting, which is simple to use and the results seem not too bad.
The site of the Palace has been used as far back as Roman times. But it was King David I (1124 - 1153) who built the first royal house here.
In 1302, King Edward I of England, the "Hammer of the Scots" invaded Scotland and took Linlithgow.
Just over a hundred years later, the town and much of the Palace was destroyed in a fire.
King James I started a rebuilding of the residence, and this work went on throughout the next 100 years.
It became a favourite location for the Ste warts. Mary, Queen of Scots was born here.
But when her son, King James VI moved to London to become James I of England, the Palace fell into decline.
In 1745, another fire raged through the building, leaving the shell we see today. But it is easy to imagine how it must have appeared when it was in it's hey-day.
Beside the Church stands St Michael's Kirk. Catholic until the Reformation, the Church had as a benefactor the Livingstone Family, one of whom was one of the 4 Mary's of Mary Queen of Scots.
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| Linlithgow Town Square |
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| Road to Palace and Church |
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| Fountain in Palace |
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| Panoramic view from Palace roof |
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| Inside St Michael's Kirk |
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| Stained glass Window in Kirk |
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
http://www.stmichaelsparish.org.uk/
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