Estate History
Since 1700, Balgone has been in the Grant-Suttie family, a wonderfully scenic agricultural estate run on an environmentally friendly basis. The generations have experienced many years of history. Our ancestors were mainly businessmen or military, sadly all that remains is the recently restored mansion house sold to the present owners as a ruin in the eighties and some fascinating books and photographs some of which you can find in the Granary bookcase. All the farmland historically has been tenanted out but in 1959 when my father inherited the estate times had changed, he arrived from Canada to find it badly run down and decided to take the farm back in hand. Gone were the days of the wealthy landowners and we have worked hard to build the estate into a thriving agricultural business, my father built the Granary to allow myself and my family to move into the nearby farmhouse.
The photo shows some of our Victorian relations holding a curling bonspiel on the big lake which was purpose built in the nineteenth century.
