Glenbranter

Human settlement in Scotland

List of places: UK; Scotland

56°08′07″N 5°02′32″W / 56.135145°N 5.0423423°W / 56.135145; -5.0423423

Glenbranter is a hamlet and former estate, once owned by Sir Harry Lauder, on the northwest shore of Loch Eck in the Argyll Forest Park, on the Cowal peninsula, Argyll and Bute in the West of Scotland.^[1]^[2]

Harry Lauder

Lauder bought the Glenbranter Estate on 13 October 1916; he sold it to the Forestry Commission in 1921 and it became part of the Argyll Forest Park in 1935. The Estate House was demolished in 1956.^[3]

Lauder Monument

There is a memorial to Harry Lauder's son, Captain John Currie Lauder, of the 8th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who died at Pozières on 28 December 1916, during the First World War.^[4]^[5]^[6] The monument is a short walk from the A815 road.^[7]

Work camp

The estate was the location of a work camp in the 1930s, part of the MacDonald National Government's Instructional Centres scheme. Men were given three months' "training" on a workfare-like scheme.^[8]

Gallery

Glenbranter Bridge
Loch Eck, Benmore-Glenbranter Forestry Road
Glenbranter Cottages
Old Bridge at Glenshellish Farm, Glenbranter, Cowal
Argyll and Bute - Lauder Memorial, Invernoaden - 20230616152724

References

^ "Leave the world behind at Glenbranter". Scotland Forestry Commission.
^ "Glenbranter Estate – SDLHS".
^ "Lauder Monument, Invernoaden, Argyll Forest — See Loch Lomond :: What to do in Loch Lomond and Trossachs". See Loch Lomond. 7 January 2023.
^ "Interesting Address from Harry Lauder". The McGill Daily. 26 November 1917. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
^ Manchester, Reading Room. "Casualty Details". Cwgc.org.
^ "Captain John Lauder". Scotland's War^{[dead link]}.
^ "Invernoaden, Lauder Memorial | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
^ "How Britain built work camps for the unemployed in the 1930s". Socialist Worker. 3 July 2012.