Pool House

Botanical garden, which a 19th-century enthusiast intended just as a windbreak, then his mania for collecting exotic plants got out of hand. Early seasons take colour from the rhododendrons and Erythroniums. In summer the walled gardens and borders are the highlight.

From 1941 the Allies tried to support the Soviet Union, which had been invaded by Nazi Germany. Very few supply routes were open and one was across the Norwegian and Arctic seas to the ports of Murmansk and Archangelsk. Supply ships and their warship escorts assembled in Loch Ewe then sailed in convoy, either direct or via Iceland, across dangerous waters. The loch was fortified against aerial and seaborne attack, and shore facilities were built. This museum tells the convoys' story.