Cargill's Castle

A high-tech scanning tool much-used in Britain gave Dunedin heritage experts a new perspective on Cargill's Castle yesterday.

Until recently, Warren Justice was best known to his grandchildren as a "pretty neat" doll's-house builder.

The Cargill's Castle Trust has raised almost $9000 from its 12th annual Heritage Homes Tour, which was a sellout.

For years Cargill's Castle has been a ruin, but in the late 1950s and early 1960s, former Dunedin woman Val Wilson called it home. Janice Murphy goes with her on a trip down memory lane.

Perched on the windswept cliffs above St Clair, Cargill's Castle has been part of the lives of generations of Dunedin people.

The Cliffs, now known as Cargill's Castle, was built by Edward Bowes Cargill in 1876. It was designed in the Italianate style by renowned architect F. W. Petre, who married Edward's daughter, Margaret, after a romance that began during the building of The Cliffs.