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Blue plaque № 67425

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Gyles house Built 1626 for Captain James Cook. Cook married a Horsburgh and the house stayed in the Horsburgh family for 300 years. Sadly the claim that it was Cook's ship that carried Charles II to France after his defeat at the 1651 Battle of Worcester is a 19th century hoax. John Henry Lorimer, portrait painter, restored the house in 1930, hence the initials JHL and numerals on the gate. Hew Lorimer, scupltor, lived here in the 1930s and 1940s.

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