Old Photograph Dunnichen House Scotland

Old photograph of Dunnichen house located between Letham and Forfar in Angus, Scotland. This was the home of George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo, born 1732, died 1818, who was a Scottish advocate, landowner, agricultural improver and politician. Dempster served as Member of Parliament for the Perth Burghs in Perthshire, founded the Dundee Banking Company in 1763, was a Director of the East India Company from 1769, and served as Provost of St Andrews, Fife in 1780 and was a Director of the Highland Society in 1789. He spent the later years of his life improving Scottish fishing and agriculture and improving the living conditions of his tenants. He was a lifelong friend of the philosopher Adam Ferguson and the minister Alexander Carlyle. was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1788, upon the proposal of Dr Anderson, Henry Duncan and John Playfair. He died at Dunnichen, Angus, on 13 February 1818, and was interred at Restenneth Priory, Forfar.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Langholm Scotland

Old photograph of a steam engine in the railway station in Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. A branch of the Carlisle, England, to Hawick railway line to Langholm was completed in 1864, but closed 100 years later. The last regular passenger train was on 13 June 1964, although a special ran in March 1967, complete with restaurant car; the freight service continued until September 1967.



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Old Photograph Steam Engines Queen Street Railway Station Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of steam engines at Queen Street railway station in Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish railway station was built by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and opened on 18 February 1842. The adjacent Buchanan Street station of the rival Caledonian Railway closed on 7 November 1966 as a result of the Beeching axe and its services to Stirling, Perth, Perthshire, Inverness, Dundee and Aberdeen transferred to Queen Street.



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Old Photograph Fintray House Scotland

Old photograph of Fintray House in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A Scottish mansion house in the Tudor style built in the middle of the 19th century. The estate was acquired in 1610, by the Forbses of Craigievar. It formerly belonged to Lindores family, until the Reformation, at which time it was called Lamington. The Forbes Baronetcy, of Pitsligo and Monymusk in the County of Aberdeen, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 30 March 1626 for William Forbes, with remainder to heirs male whatsoever. He was a descendant of Duncan Forbes, second son of James Forbes, 2nd Lord Forbes. The eighth Baronet assumed the additional surname and arms of Hepburn. He was the heir general of the last Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, his ancestor, the fourth Baronet, having married Mary, daughter of Alexander Forbes, 3rd Lord Forbes of Pitsligo. His only child, Harriet Williamina, married Charles Henry Rolle Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton. On the Baronet’s death in 1828 the Forbes of Pitsligo estates passed to his daughter and son in law. The seventh Baronet married Williamina Wishart, only child and heiress of Sir John Belshes Wishart 4th Baronet. The tenth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Stuart.



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Old Photograph Glenbervie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Glenbervie Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The oldest part of the present Glenbervie castle now a mansion house is an oblong block with two round towers projecting to the East, of 15th or 16th century date. Edward 1 spent a night in Glenbervie Castle in 1296, when it was held by the Melville family. It passed to Sir Alexander Auchinleck in 1468. King Edward I, born 17 June 1239, died 7 July 1307, also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots spent a night in Glenbervie Castle in 1296, when it was held by the Melville family. It passed to Sir Alexander Auchinleck in 1468.



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Old Photographs Glenbarr Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, horses and carriages and people in Glenbarr located on the West Coast of the Kintyre peninsula Argyll, Scotland. Nearby is Glenbarr Abbey, an 18th century residence, built by Col. Matthew Macalister, 1st Laird of Glenbarr. Today it serves as a visitor centre for the history of Clan MacAlister.

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Old Photograph Canisbay Church Scotland

Old photograph of Canisbay Church in Caithness, Scotland. This Scottish church is most northerly place of worship on the Scottish mainland, the site was occupied by the Chapel of St Drostan, who headed a mission to Pictland in the 6th century. The present cruciform church is largely 17th century, but the nave incorporates walling from the medieval church.



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Old Photograph United Free Church Crail Scotland

Old photograph of the United Free Church in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish building was built in 1909 as a United Free Church by James Davidson Cairns. It was erected on the site of Crail North United Free Church, following the union of Crail West, now Holy Trinity Catholic Church and Crail North in 1907.



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Old Photograph Golf Course Gairloch Scotland

Old photograph of the golf course in Gairloch, Scotland. There has been a golf club beside Gairloch Sands since 1898. Before that time, Parish records show that golf was regularly played on the links amongst the sand dunes.



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Old Photograph Craigengillan House Scotland

Old photograph of Craigengillan House in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Craigengillan was first established as an estate in 1580, when it encompassed over 30,000 acres, stretching as far as Carsphairn. The founding family, the McAdams, and their descendants, remained the proprietors until 1999.



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Old Photograph Conscience Bridge Cairneyhill Scotland

Old photograph of Conscience Bridge in Cairneyhill, near Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. There is a small bridge over the Torry Burn at the west end of the village known as the "Conscience Bridge". This name arises from local legend, in which a murderer was caught and confessed to his crime on the bridge and hanged himself. The line of the road has been straightened and widened over the years, with only the original north parapet remaining, but the name of the bridge is carved into a plaque which can be seen by leaning over the wall. This Scottish village began in the 18th century as a settlement for local weavers and was served by the parish church that was built in 1752 and is still used today. This was a hotbed of dissenters and the village was a central point for the religious disputes in Scotland in the early 19th Century.



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Old Photographs Falkirk Scotland

Old photograph of Falkirk, Scotland. In the 18th century the area served as the cradle of Scotland's Industrial Revolution, becoming the earliest major centre of the iron casting industry. James Watt cast some of the beams for his early steam engine designs at the Carron Iron Works in 1765. The area was at the forefront of canal construction when the Forth and Clyde Canal opened in 1790. The Union Canal built in 1822 provided a link to Edinburgh and early railway development followed in the 1830s and 1840s. The Antonine Wall, which stretches across the centre of Scotland, passed through the town and remnants of it can be seen at Callendar Park. Similar to Hadrian's Wall but built of turf rather than stone so less of it has survived, it marked the northern frontier of the Roman Empire between the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde during the AD 140s. Much of the best evidence of Roman occupation in Scotland has been found in Falkirk, including a large hoard of Roman coins and a cloth of tartan, thought to be the oldest ever recorded.



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Old Photographs Delgatie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Delgatie Castle near Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A castle has stood on this site since the year 1030 AD, although the earliest parts of the castle standing today were built between 1570 and 1579. Additional wings and a chapel were added in 1743. The castle was stripped from the disgraced Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan after the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and given to Clan Hay, later to become the Earls of Erroll. Mary, Queen of Scots, was a guest at the castle in 1562 after the Battle of Corrichie. Like many castles, Delgatie is rumoured to be haunted. A number of reports of a ghostly red-haired figure, supposedly one Alexander Hay, were made by soldiers posted there during the Second World War.

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Old Photograph Golf Course Glenfarg Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the golf course in Glenfarg, Perthshire, Scotland. The nine hole course founded in 1904 was situated to the west of Glenfarg and was 800 feet above sea level. It was laid out by W Auchterlonie of St Andrews, Fife. The course closed in the late 1930s.



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Old Photograph Clatteringshaws Dam Scotland

Old photograph of Clatteringshaws Dam in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Clatteringshaws Loch reservoir was created between 1929 and 1935 over the Black Water of Dee to feed Glenlee Power Station via a three mile long tunnel. Clatteringshaws Dam is the largest on the Galloway Hydro Electric Scheme.



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Old Photograph St David's Church Dalkeith Scotland

Old photograph of St David's Church in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. This is a Roman Catholic Parish church founded in 1854 by Lady Cecil, the wife of John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian and daughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot. After she converted to Catholicism, Lady Cecil of Lothian decided to build a church for the local Catholic population. Joseph Hansom was the church architect and building started in 1853. On 21 May 1854, the church opened and a Father Mackay was the first parish priest. In 1858, he was replaced by a Father J. S. McCorry. In 1860, Lady Cecil invited the Society of Jesus to serve the parish. In 1944, the Jesuits left the parish and handed over administration of the church to the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh who continue to serve the congregation.



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Old Photograph Keppoch House Scotland

Old photograph of Keppoch House in the Highlands of Scotland. Keppoch House was built between 1760 and 1765 by Ranald Macdonell, 17th Chief of Keppoch, to replace the earlier house destroyed after the 1745 Rebellion. The Macdonalds, or Macdonells of Keppoch were not cadets of Glengarry but an independent clan, caught up like most of their neighbours in an endless round of land disputes and inter clan feuds, of which the Keppoch Murders of 1663 were a particularly gruesome example. The 18th century found them constantly engaged in land feuds with the Mackintoshes, who eventually managed to hold this territory from after 1745 until 1945, prompting most of the Keppoch clan to emigrate.



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Old Photograph Ladykirk House Scotland

Old photograph of Ladykirk House in Berwickshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was built in 1797, to a design by the architect William Elliot, and it resembled Dundas House, which still stands in St Andrews Square, Edinburgh. It consisted of a central main block with adjoining symmetrical wings, and was built in the Classical style, with a central pediment and a parapet balustrade. Additions and alterations were undertaken in 1845 by William Burn. Ladykirk estate was owned by the Robertson family in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The initials of one of the Robertsons, 'W R', were carved into the datestone that was once incorporated into the fabric of Ladykirk House.



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Old Photograph Mansion House Rouken Glen Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and carriage and people outside the mansion house in Rouken Glen park in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, to the South Weest of Glasgow, Scotland. 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. Amongst the park's owners have been Walter Crum of Thornliebank and Archibald Cameron Corbett, M.P. for Tradeston, Glasgow, later Lord Rowallan, who gifted the estate and mansion house to the citizens of Glasgow. The park features in an episode of Scottish comedy series Rab C. Nesbitt, when Rab gets a job sweeping leaves by the pond. A scene from the film Trainspotting was also filmed in Rouken Glen, and the pondside cafeteria, Boaters, was featured in an episode of the BBC Scotland drama series Sea of Souls.



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Old Photograph Balmirmer House Scotland

Old photograph of Balmirmer house located two miles North of Carnoustie and four miles West of Arbroath, Scotland. This is the location of West Balmirmer Farm, the birthplace, in 1891, of Margaret Fairlie, the first woman to hold a university chair in Scotland. Margaret was the daughter of Mr and Mrs James Fairlie and grew up at West Balmirmer Farm, Angus. From 1910 to 1915 she studied at University College, Dundee at the University of St Andrews Conjoint Medical School in Fife. After graduating she held various medical posts in Dundee, Perth, Perthshire, Edinburgh and Manchester, England, before returning to Dundee in 1919 where she ran a consultant practice for gynaecology. In 1920 she began a teaching career at Dundee's Medical School, which lasted for almost four decades. In the mid 1920s she joined the staff of Dundee Royal Infirmary, where she worked for the rest of her career.



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Old Photograph Maryhill Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland. A part of the Antonine Wall runs through Maryhill, in the Maryhill Park area, where there is the site of a Roman fort adjoining the wall in nearby Bearsden. Maryhill had the first Temperance Society in the United Kingdom after lawlessness filled the streets in the Victorian era. Maryhill also boasts one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed by the Inverness architect James Robert Rhind. Maryhill Barracks was opened in 1872 and once dominated the area that is now the Wyndford housing estate. It was home to the Scots Greys and the Highland Light Infantry, and famously held Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Rudolf Hess during World War II. Maryhill was known as the Venice of the North for its canals and also for being the centre of the glass industry, with its Caledonia Works and Glasgow Works.



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Old Photograph Faithlie Basin Fraserburgh Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats at Faithlie Basin in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Construction of the Faithlie Basin in 1909 took place at a time when the herring curing was at a peak.



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Old Photograph Howmore Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter outside the thatched Post Office cottage in Howmore on South Uist, Scotland. South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clan Ranald who made a good living from kelp harvesting owing to the demand for kelp around the turn of the 19th century. At that time population of the island was around 7300. After the Napoleonic Wars however, competition from imported Barilla resulted in a collapse in the price for kelp and the chief of Clan Ranald found himself facing bankruptcy. South Uist was sold to Lt. Colonel John Gordon of Cluny in 1837 and the fortunes of the island's tenants went downhill from that point. He initiated Highland Clearances to make way for sheep farming, supplanting the crofters with farmers from the Borders, who brought flocks of Blackface sheep. As a result, there was large scale emigration from the island.



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Old Photograph Farr Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Farr in Strathnairn, South of Inverness, Scotland. Much of this area is spread along the B851 single track road. Its boundaries lie just north of Inverernie and Dalveallan, to the south of Socaich, in the west to the Biorraid, and in the east where the Monadhliath Mountains begin.



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Old Photograph Drumnadrochit Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the cottage Post Office in Drumnadrochit by Loch Ness, Scotland. A Scottish village in the Highlands, lying on the west shore of Loch Ness, at the foot of Glen Urquhart.



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Old Photograph Bunchcrew Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Bunchcrew near Inverness, Scotland. A small Scottish village close to the south shore of Beauly Firth in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is three miles West of the city of Inverness, on the A862 road. Bunchrew had a station on the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway, which opened in 1862. This station closed to passengers in 1960, and to goods in 1964.



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Old Photograph Newton Ferry North Uist Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the thatched cottage Post Office in Newton Ferry on North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. A ferry used to run between Newtonferry and the neighboring island of Berneray, but no longer runs since a permanent causeway was constructed between Berneray and North Uist. The greatest change in modern times occurred in 1999 when the causeway opened between Berneray and Otternish on North Uist. It eased travelling on and off the island, improved employment prospects and accelerated the carriage of produce, notably, crabs and lobster. The causeway contains culverts that allow the easy passage of otters and fish from one side of the structure to the other. The causeway was formally opened by Prince Charles in April 1999.



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Old Photograph Drivers And Staff Trams Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of drivers and staff of the Trams in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. Paisley District Tramways Company took over the Paisley Tramways Company on 17 September 1903 and undertook a programme of modernisation and electrification.. The first electric tramway services started on 13 June 1904. There were depots at: Aurs Road, Barrhead; Main Road, Elderslie; Paisley Road, Renfrew. The company was taken over by Glasgow Corporation Tramways on 1 August 1923, which continued to operate trams in Paisley until the late 1950s.



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Old Photographs Shieldhall Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Shieldhall in Glasgow, Scotland. Shieldhall is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde. It is located between Renfrew and Drumoyne and is close to Braehead. It includes the site of the King George V Dock.

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Old Photographs War Memorial Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of the War Memorial in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. The monument was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, the builders Messrs. Neil McLeod & Sons Limited, and the carving work carried out by Messrs. Allen & Sons, both of Edinburgh. The 228 tons of granite employed was supplied by the Shap Fells Granite Company in Westmorland. The inscription reads: " To the glorious memory of the 1,953 men of Paisley who gave their lives in the Great War. "

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Old Photographs Princess May Paddle Steamer Loch Lomond Scotland

Old photograph of the Princess May paddle steamer on Loch Lomond, Scotland. Princess May was a Loch Lomond steamer and the sister to Prince George. He sailed on the Balloch to Ardlui service until she became a spare steamer after the introduction of Prince Edward in 1912. Sailings were undertaken at Easter and then from late May until the end of September. Princess May again took up the regular service, upon the withdrawal of Prince George in 1936 and she continued until the introduction of Maid of the Loch in 1953, when the Princess May was broken up on the slipway at Balloch.

Old photograph of the Princess May paddle steamer on Loch Lomond, Scotland.

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Old Photograph La Scala Theatre Saltcoats Scotland

Old photograph of La Scala Theatre in Saltcoats, Scotland. George Kemp opened the La Scala in Saltcoats, a resort on the Ayrshire coast, subsequently converting a wooden building across the street into the Casino Cinema in 1919. Kemp retired in 1925 and his son Harry took over the business. Harry had introduced a series of concert parties during the 1922 summer season at the La Scala cinema in Saltcoats. It was the first of the now legendary Kemp Summer Shows which ran at venues up and down the Ayrshire Coast. Kemp's only Glasgow city cinema, the Capitol in Ibrox opened in April 1927.



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Old Photograph Parish Church Portlethen Scotland

Old photograph of the Parish Church in Portlethen near Aberdeen, Scotland. This Scottish church sits on high ground overlooking the small community of Portlethen and its railway station. There is open farm land east of the church and an extensive graveyard and cemetery extends around the church. A large church hall is also built nearby and a car park is situated to the south. The church is built on the site of a previous place of worship, a Roman Catholic chapel, built in the 17th century. Portlethen Church opened as a chapel of ease around 1840 and has remained little altered to this day.





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Old Photograph Parish Church Maryculter Scotland

Old photograph of the Parish Church in Maryculter, Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A church was founded in this area by the Knights Templar, the ruin of the original St Mary's church can be found in the idyllic grounds of Maryculter House Hotel, close to the River Dee. Maryculter Church building dates from 1787, extended 1882.



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Old Photograph Mortlach Church Dufftown Scotland

Old photograph of Mortlach Church by Dufftown, in the heart of Speyside, Scotland. This Scottish church is known for being one of the oldest sites of continuous Christian worship in Scotland. Molvag, a contemporary of St Columba, came from Bangor and established a church or chapel here in around 566. The present church owes its form and appearance to centuries of phases of building work, stretching from the 13th century, or possibly earlier, to the late 19th century, when the existing church was extensively rebuilt.



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