In May 1975 Lamington was one of the first villages to be designated a conservation area and was subsequently granted “outstanding” status in recognition of its architecture and historic interest. The Exhibition explores the history surrounding Lamington from early times through the regeneration of the village until the death of the 3rd Lord Lamington in 1951 and up to the present day. In the early 1300’s Lamington Tower was in the hands of Hugh Braidfute who was killed along with his son when the English besieged the Tower. His daughter, Marion Braidfute married William Wallace and they had a daughter who married a Sir William Baillie bringing the lands into the Baillie family. It then followed a series of name changes, as the property passed to different families via heiresses. In 1836, Alexander Dundas Ross Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie, the son of Sir Thomas Cochrane and grandson of the 8th Earl of Dundonald, inherited the Lamington Estate becoming the 1st Baron of Lamington. The 1st Lady Lamington was Annabella Mary Elizabeth Drummond, the great grand-daughter of Robert Drummond who restructured the rules of the Royal Bank of Scotland and managed the finances of King George III. On their arrival in 1836 Lamington was a desolate moor with broken-down peat-roofed single roomed bothies on each side of Lamington burn. The coach stopped once a week to whisky up at a low whitewashed thatched cottage on the high road from Dumfries to Edinburgh. The Inn Keeper was Douglas Telfer, a descendant of the Braidfutes, and his wife Molly attended to the customers. After her husband’s death she was in sole charge and remained so until 1853 when Lord Lamington decided to remodel the Inn into a Mansion fit for a Lord. Molly Telfer was the great, great grandmother of Brian Lambie, former Lord Provost of Biggar who was instrumental in establishing Biggar Museum Trust and had a great interest in Lamington. A process of regeneration began and gradually the bothies disappeared and ornamental cottages took their place for the estate workers. Gothic scalloped barge-boards, rustic porches and lattice windows alongside a monogramme with the family crest adorned some of the cottages. The Baillie-Cochranes also built an Episcopalian Chapel as a private place of worship. The original road from Dumfries to Edinburgh was re-routed from by-passing Lamington House to where it is today, providing privacy for Lord Lamington. During the period up to 1951 there were three Lord Lamingtons and the title became extinct on the death of the 3rd Lord Lamington. It was the end of an era. No butlers or keepers, coachmen, nannies or ladysmaids. Only the village and the Chapel remain to recall a way of life which flourished and has gone but which is part of our heritage worth preserving. The contents of Lamington House were auctioned off in the 1950s and the building was finally demolished and the village cottages sold to private owners. In 1983 the ownership of the Chapel passed to Biggar Museum Trust who have carried out several restoration projects to preserve the building for future generations. Entrance to the Exhibition is free and no tickets are required. Sunday opening times are 1pm - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday opening times are 10 - 5pm Open on Bank Holiday Monday 5th May 2025 from 10 - 5pm "Lamington Heritage Exhibition has been funded by Clyde Windfarm and SSE Renewables" and their logo should be presented with the wording as presented. No reference to names of people from Biggar Museum Trust without consent first.