Palace Grounds Retail Park (Hamilton)

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Site of the ancestral home of Scotland's premier Dukes, the family of Hamilton, Brandon and Chatelherault. Here was a palace bigger than Buckingham Palace, with a giant portico, a staircase of black marble and a throne room. In the slump that followed the Napoleonic wars, the 10th Duke provided employment for local people in rebuilding his home, using 28,000 tons of stone. The columns were 25 feet high. The nearby mausoleum contained the Duke's coffin, an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. In 1923, the bodies of Dukes were removed and the 10th Duke was laid to rest in a field beside Hamilton Cemetery, still in his priceless Egyptian coffin. The palace was demolished
in 1921 as mining and industry claimed the area.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Palace
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Coordinates:   55°46'42"N   4°1'40"W

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  • Looks even blurrier from ground-level! ;-)
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