Old Photographs Aberdour Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Aberdour Castle.



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Old Photograph Glasgow Road Paisley Scotland


Old photograph of a Tram, horse and cart, buildings and people on Glasgow Road, Paisley, Scotland. By the 19th century, Paisley had established itself as a centre of the weaving industry, giving its name to the Paisley shawl and the Paisley Pattern. The town's associations with political Radicalism were highlighted by its involvement in the Radical War of 1820, with striking weavers being instrumental in the protests. As of 1993, all of Paisley's mills had closed, although they are memorialised in the town's museums and civic history.



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Old Photographs Queens Park Glasgow Scotland


Old photograph of Queen's Park, Glasgow, Scotland. This park was developed in the late 19th century in response to the increasing population density of Glasgow in general, and the South Side in particular, with the growth of tenement housing supplying the increased demand for middle class homes. Victorian Glasgow took the provision of open spaces extremely seriously, with the result that parks such as Queen's Park sprang up across the city. The park was acquired in 1857 and was designed by the world renowned Sir Joseph Paxton, also responsible for noted public parks in London, Liverpool, Birkenhead and the grounds of the Spa Buildings at Scarborough. The park was dedicated to the memory of Mary Queen of Scots and not Queen Victoria, a common misconception given the proximity to Victoria Road and that the park was created during her reign.

Old photograph of Queen's Park, Glasgow, Scotland.

Old photograph of Queen's Park, Glasgow, Scotland.




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Old Photographs Crossmyloof Glasgow Scotland


Old photograph of a horse and cart, shops and people in Crossmyloof, Glasgow, Scotland. Crossmyloof is an area on the south side of Glasgow in Scotland. The name is derived from Gaelic Crois MoLiubha, St Malieu's Cross. According to local belief, the name is reputed to be derived from its location on the route taken by Mary Queen of Scots to the site of the Battle of Langside. A fortune-teller may have offered to tell the queen her fate if she would " cross her loof (hand) with silver. "



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Old Photograph Shepherd Perthshire Scotland


Old photograph of a Shepherd in a village in Perthshire, Scotland. The surname Shepherd has an ancient history in both England and Scotland. The many variations in England include Sheppard, Shephard, Shepperd, Shepard, Shipman and Shippard. The Scots have these as well as Sheepheard, and Shippert. There are also the English patriomics such as Sheppardson, Shepperdson, and Shepherdson. In Germany the name exists as Schaefer, Shafer, Shaffer, and Shaver. It also exists as Berger in France, Pecora in Italy, and Vasquez or Velez in Spain. The name is generally considered as occupational. One source states that " Those who tended the sheep of the villagers as well as those of the lord in England might be Shepherd or Shipman, a functionary generally chosen by the villagers. "



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Old Photographs Musselburgh Scotland


Old photograph of Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. Musselburgh is the largest settlement in East Lothian, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, six miles east of Edinburgh city centre. Musselburgh was first settled by the Romans in the years following their invasion of Scotland in AD80. They built a fort a little inland from the mouth of the River Esk and bridged the river here. In doing so they established the line of the main eastern approach to Scotland's capital for most of the next two thousand years. The bridge built by the Romans outlasted them by many centuries. It was rebuilt on the original Roman foundations some time before 1300, and in 1597 it was rebuilt again, this time with a third arch added on the east side of the river. The Old Bridge is also known as the Roman Bridge and remains in use today by pedestrians. To its north is the New Bridge, designed by John Rennie the Elder and built in 1806. This in turn was considerably widened in 1925. Tour Roman Scotland.



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Old Photographs Lochgoilhead Scotland


Old photograph of Lochgoilhead, Scotland. A small village in the Scottish Highlands in Argyll. Located at the head of Loch Goil, where the Goil river, which rises on nearby Ben Donich and Beinn Bheula, flows into the loch, it is surrounded by mountains rising as high as 3,000 feet and is part of the Arrochar Alps. The village itself sits underneath the southside mountains of Glen Croe, as which Beinn an Lochain, Stob an Eas, Ben Donich and The Brack, stand. Lochgoilhead is situated in one of the most picturesque, remote, mountainous and wilderness parts of the truly highland area of the southern highlands, exhibiting a fine example of the Argyll Highlands.






Old photograph of Lochgoilhead, Scotland.

Old photograph of Lochgoilhead, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Eriskay Scotland


Old photograph of cottages on the Isle of Eriskay, Scotland. An island of the Outer Hebrides in northern Scotland. It lies between South Uist and Barra and is connected to South Uist by a causeway which was opened in 2001. In the same year Eriskay became the ferry terminal for travelling between South Uist and Barra. The Caledonian MacBrayne vehicular ferry travels between Ceann a' Ghàraidh in Eriskay and Ardmore in Barra.

Old photograph of Isle of Eriskay, Scotland.

Old photograph of Isle of Eriskay, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Mallaig Scotland


Old photograph of Mallaig, Scotland. Mallaig is a port in Lochaber, on the west coast of the Highlands of Scotland. The local railway station, Mallaig, is the terminus of the West Highland railway line, Fort William and Mallaig branch, completed in 1901, and the town is linked to Fort William by the A830 road, the Road to the Isles. The village of Mallaig was founded in the 1840s, when Lord Lovat, owner of North Morar Estate, divided up the farm of Mallaigvaig into seventeen parcels of land and encouraged his tenants to move to the western part of the peninsula and turn to fishing as a way of life. The population and local economy expanded rapidly in the 20th century with the arrival of the railway. Ferries operated by Caledonian MacBrayne and Bruce Watt Sea Cruises sail from the port to Armadale on the Isle of Skye, Inverie in Knoydart, and to the isles of Rùm, Eigg, Muck, and Canna. Mallaig is the main commercial fishing port on the West Coast of Scotland.

Old photograph of Mallaig, Scotland.




Old photograph of Mallaig, Scotland.

Old photograph of Mallaig, Scotland.

Old photograph of Mallaig, Scotland.

Old photograph of Mallaig, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Barr Ayrshire Scotland


Old photograph of cottages, houses and car in Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland. Barr is a picturesque village in the South West of Ayrshire, located approximately 8 miles from the town of Girvan. It is believed to have been established in the 17th century and has not grown much since that time.

Old photograph of Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Ullapool Scotland


Old photograph of a fishing boat in the harbour in Ullapool, Wester Ross, Scotland. On the east shore of Loch Broom, Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a herring port by the British Fisheries Society. It was designed by Thomas Telford. The harbour is still the edge of the town, used as a fishing port, yachting haven, and ferry port. Ferries sail to Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides.



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Old Photographs Lossiemouth Moray Scotland


Old photograph of Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. In 1685, the Elgin burgh council called upon a German engineer, Peter Brauss, to look at the viability of providing a harbour at the mouth of the River Lossie; he decided that a harbour could be established. The first efforts at the beginning of the 18th Century looked to have failed but by 1764, the new jetty had been built at a cost of £1200. At the time that the new river mouth harbour was being constructed, so too was a more planned development laid out in streets running parallel and right angles to each other. An open square with a cross separated the first settlement from the new. The fishers occupied the houses at the Seatown and the builders, craftsmen and merchants in the new Lossiemouth.



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Old Photograph Port Ellen Islay Scotland


Old photograph of Port Ellen, Islay, Scotland. Port Ellen is a small town on the island of Islay. The town is named after the wife of the founder, Frederick Campbell of Islay. Its previous name, Leòdamas, is derived from old Norse meaning " Leòd's Harbour ". Port Ellen is built around Loch Leodamais, Islay's main deep water harbour. It is the second largest town on Islay, only slightly smaller than Bowmore and provides the main ferry connection between Islay and the mainland, at Kennacraig. The Port Ellen Distillery was first established in the 1820s and ceased production of Scotch whisky in 1983. The large malting continues to produce for the majority of the distilleries on Islay. The area around Port Ellen has a variety of archaeological sites covering the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age periods. There are standing stones at Kilbride, a fort at Borraichill Mor, several chambered cairns, and a chapel at Cill Tobar Lasrach. Nearby lie the ruined remains of the 14th century Dunyveg Castle, once a fortress of the MacDonald Lords of the Isles.



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Old Photograph Crofters Spinning and Weaving In Scotland


Old photograph of Crofters spinning and weaving in a cottage in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. In 1840 over two thirds of the Scottish population lived and worked on the land, or in small villages making a living from fishing or weaving, and in the Highlands most people were almost universally impoverished.



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Old Photographs Dunfermline Fife Scotland



Old photographs of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

Famous Scots from Dunfermline include;

John MacLaren Erskine VC, born 13 January 1894, died 14 April 1917, was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. John was born in Dunfermline to William and Elizabeth Erskine. He was 22 years old, and a sergeant in the 5th Battalion, The Cameronians, Scottish Rifles, British Army during the First World War, when he was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 22 June 1916 at Givenchy, France.

David Ferguson Hunter VC, born in Dunfermline on 28 November 1891, died 14 February 1965, was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. David was 26 years old, and a corporal in the 1/5th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC on 23 October 1918.

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Old Photographs Blairgowrie Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The town expanded hugely in the 19th century thanks to the employment provided by the many textile mills which were built along the River Ericht. Soft fruit growing, mainly raspberries and strawberries developed in the 20th century and became a very important part of the town's economy.

Old photograph of Rattray, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.



Old photograph of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.


Old photograph of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Auchmithie Scotland


Old photograph of Auchmithie, Scotland. Auchmithie is a former fishing village in Angus, Scotland, three miles north east of the town of Arbroath. It sits atop a red sandstone cliff, approximately 120 feet above a shingle beach which contains an unusual amount of jasper. In the dilapidated harbour, built in 1891, there are still some small fishing boats. The Arbroath Smokie, haddock hot smoked in a particular way, originated in Auchmithie. Sir Walter Scott stayed in the Waverley Hotel in Auchmithie and described Auchmithie in his novel The Antiquary (1816), under the name Musslecrag.



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Old Photographs Sligachan Isle of Skye Scotland


Old photograph of Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Sligachan has always been an important junction on Skye, and the bridge across the River Sligachan forms part of the only road leading to the west end of the island. The bridge was built in the 19th century and consists of three arches. The middle arch is the widest, but the side arches are not mere flood arches, as the River Sligachan is a wide and ferocious piece of water for most of the year. The roadway is slightly humpbacked over the large central arch and only single track.



Old photograph of Sligachan Hotel, Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Crieff Perthshire Scotland


Old photograph of shops, buildings, horse and carriage and people in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. Rob Roy MacGregor visited Crieff on many occasions, often to sell cattle. Rob Roy's outlaw son was pursued through the streets of Crieff by soldiers and killed. In the second week of October 1714 the Highlanders gathered in Crieff for the October Tryst. By day Crieff was full of soldiers and government spies. Just after midnight, Rob Roy and his men marched to Crieff Town Square and rang the town bell. In front of the gathering crowd they sang Jacobite songs and drank a good many loyal toasts to their uncrowned King James VIII.



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Old Photograph Steamship Loch Lomond Scotland


Old photograph of a steamship at Luss, Loch Lomond, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Tea Room Rouken Glen Glasgow Scotland


Old photograph of a tea room in Rouken Glen near Glasgow, Scotland. Rouken Glen Park lies some six miles to the south of Glasgow city centre with Newton Mearns to the south and Thornliebank to the north. The lands of Rouken Glen Park originally belonged to the Scottish Crown, and then to the Earl of Eglinton, presented to Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton on the marriage of his son in the year 1530 by King James V.



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Old Photograph Tobacconist Shop Glasgow Scotland


Old photograph of the Flockhart, Tobacconist Shop in Glasgow, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Glamis Scotland


Old photograph of thatched cottages, houses and car in the village of Glamis, Scotland. Situated by Glamis Castle.




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Old Photograph Crofters Scotland


Old photograph of elderly Scottish Highlanders in their croft cottage in Scotland.

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Old Photographs Wishaw Scotland

Old photograph of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Scarinish Isle Of Tiree Scotland


Old photograph of Scarinish, Isle of Tiree, Scotland. An island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, southwest of Coll.

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Old Photographs Pittenweem Scotland

Old photograph of Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Milk Cart Scotland


Old photograph of a Milk Cart in Fife, Scotland.

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