Old Photograph Blacksmiths Tayport Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Blacksmiths in Tayport, Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Of Boys At School In Westruther Scotland

Old photograph of boys and girls at school in Westruther, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Ann Spottiswoode from this village was Lady John Scott of " Annie Laurie " fame. Annie Laurie is an old Scottish song based on a poem by William Douglas, born 1672, died 1748 of Dumfries and Galloway. The words were modified and the tune was added by Alicia Scott in 1834. The song is also known as Maxwelton Braes. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Of Boys And Girls At School Mertoun Scotland

Old photograph of boys and girls at school in Mertoun in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Mertoun is the South Eastern Parish in Berwickshire, being bounded on the north by the Parish of Earlston, on the east by the Parishes of Smailholm and Makerstoun, on the south by the Parish of Maxton and on the west by the Parishes of Maxton and Melrose.



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Old Photograph Pitlethie House Leuchars Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Pitlethie House in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Early 19th century, 2 storey 3 window whin rubble with sandstone dressings, centre bay advanced, R-doric columns and fanlight to doorpiece, panelled wallhead blocking course; back wing; 17th century panel set into South East gable. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Lightlands Terrace Wigtown Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses on Lightlands Terrace in Wigtown, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Parish Church Manse Leuchars Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Parish Church manse in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. A manse is a Scottish clergy house inhabited by, or formerly inhabited by, a minister, usually used in the context of Presbyterian. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Loch Long Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats and fishermen on the banks of Loch Long, Argyll, Scotland. Loch Long, Gaelic for Ship Lake, Long being the word for ship, is a seal loch which was used as a testing ground for torpedoes during World War II and contains numerous wrecks. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Cottages Gullane Scotland

Old photograph of thatched cottages by Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Green Hotel Kinross Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the Green Hotel in Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Racecourse Musselburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the Racecourse in Musselburgh, Scotland. Musselburgh is the largest settlement in East Lothian, 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. Musselburgh Racecourse is a horse racing venue located in the Millhill area of Musselburgh. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph High Street New Galloway Scotland

Old photograph of people, shop, car, cottage, town clock and houses on the High Street in New Galloway in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This village was formally founded in the 17th century by the Viscount of Kenmure and granted Royal Burgh status in 1630, this was to enable it to serve as a market town. However, Kirkcudbright, only 19 miles to the south, was larger and drew more traders. New Galloway thus grew very slowly and is the smallest Royal Burgh in Scotland.



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Old Photograph Tour Bus Kyle of Lochalsh Scotland

Old photograph of a coach tour bus and passengers at the ferry to Isle of Skye in Kyle of Lochalsh, across from Isle of Skye, Scotland. Kyle of Lochalsh is a village on the North West coast of the Scottish Highlands. It is located on the Lochalsh peninsula, at the entrance to Loch Alsh, opposite the village of Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye. A ferry used to connect the two villages until it was replaced by the Skye Bridge, about a mile to the west, in 1995. Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is connected to Inverness by the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, built in 1897 to improve public transport to the north west of Scotland. The line ends on the water's edge, near where the ferry connection used to run. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Trams Falkirk Scotland

Old photograph of men going to work on Trams in Falkirk, Scotland. The Falkirk and District Tramways operated a tramway service in Falkirk between 1905 and 1936. The company started services on 21 October 1905. The company obtained most its initial tramcars from the Compagnie Générale de Construction of St Denis, France. Three others were obtained from Brush. The Scottish Motor Traction Company took over the company in 1935, and the tramway services were closed on 21 July 1936 in favour of its own bus services. Tramcar 14 survived and is now restored and in the custody of Falkirk Museums. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Sumburgh Head Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of a derelict building at Sumburgh Head twelve miles South of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Ulsta Yell Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of houses and pier in Ulsta on the Isle of Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Ulsta is a village in the South West of the island of Yell. The car ferry to Toft on Mainland, Shetland leaves from here.





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Old Photograph Maw Stack Eshaness Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of Maw sea stack by Eshaness Shetland Islands, Scotland. Eshaness is a place in the north Mainland of Shetland.



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Old Photograph Cot House Hotel Argyll Scotland

Old photograph of horses and carriages and people outside the Cot House Hotel in Argyll, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Railway Station St Boswells Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This intermediate station was opened on 20 February 1849 as Newtown Junction station and served as the junction station for branch lines to Reston, Jedburgh and Sprouston Junction. It was successively renamed New Town St Boswells station in January 1863, and St Boswells station, on 1 March 1865, and closed to regular passenger traffic, with the line as a whole, on 6 January 1969.



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Old Photograph Beach Gullane Scotland

Old photograph of people on the beach by Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Bridge Of Urr Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage by Bridge Of Urr located four miles North of Castle Douglas near Threave Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The River Urr nestles between the Kirkcudbrightshire Dee and the Dumfriesshire Nith, rising in Loch Urr high on the Craigmuie Moor, some 700 feet above sea level, near Moniaive and entering the Solway at Kippford. It is 35 miles long.




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Old Photograph Railway Station Brora Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Brora, Sutherland, Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line. The station was staffed from 1872 to 1992. The former station buildings are now unused.



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Old Photograph Shore Terrace Bus Station Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of double decker buses in Shore Terrace Bus Station in Dundee, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Dunbay Rock Cruden Bay Scotland

Old photograph of Dunbay Rock in Cruden Bay located 26 miles North of Aberdeen, Scotland. Dun Bay, or Yellow Rock is near the Bullers of Buchan, and is associated with The Antiquary, a novel by Sir Walter Scott. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.





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Old Photograph Parish Church Cargill Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the Parish Church in Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Loch Teacuis Scotland

Old photograph of Loch Teacuis in Lochaber, Scotland. Lochaber was one of the ancient Provinces of Scotland. In the Middle Ages, it came to be covered by a sheriff based at Inverness; the Sheriffdom also included Skye, Badenoch, and the area west of Inverness between Badenoch and Ross. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Gaur Valley Highland Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of horses and carriages in Gaur valley near in Kinloch Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Winton Street School Ardrossan Scotland

Old photograph of children outside Winton Street School in Ardrossan located in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Noted natives and past residents included; John Kerr FRS, born 17 December 1824, died 15 August 1907, who was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect; Calum Kennedy, born 1928, died 2006, was a popular exponent of Scottish Gaelic song in the 1950s and 60s, ran a hotel in Ardrossan towards the end of his life; Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell, recipient of the Victoria Cross, came from Ardrossan. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Thankerton Scotland

Old photograph of a shop in Thankerton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scotland. To the west of Thankerton is a hamlet called Eastend, on the South edge of the Carmichael Estate, whose main house, Eastend House, was used by the Polish Army between August 1940 and May 1941.



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Old Photograph St Margaret's Hope Naval Base North Queensferry Fife Scotland

Old photograph of St Margaret's Hope Naval Base by North Queensferry in Fife, Scotland. St Margaret's Hope was the place where the then Princess Margaret landed when, fleeing from William the Conqueror, her ship was blown off course and she, with her family, were give hospitality and protection by Macolm Canmore, her future husband. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Well Moffat Scotland

Old photograph of the Well in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. From 1633 Moffat began to grow from a small village into a popular spa town. The sulphurous waters of Moffat Spa were believed to have healing properties. In 1730 these were complemented by the addition of iron springs. During the Victorian era the high demand led to the water being piped down from the well to a specially built bath house in the town centre, now the Town Hall. The well can be reached by following Haywood Road and climbing up Tank Wood the path at the end was the original route to the well. An alternative is to drive or walk up Well Road and eventually you will reach the Well Cottage and the car park for the well. When the water was first piped into town for the baths it was pumped uphill to a tank in the appropriately named Tank Wood, before travelling back downhill to the bath house. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Macbiehill House Scotland

Old photograph of Macbiehill House in Tweeddale, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was built by William Burn in 1835, incorporated parts of an old tower house. It was demolished in the 1950s and nothing now remains. William, born 20 December 1789, died 15 February 1870, was a Scottish architect and pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style. A remarkably talented architect, he received major commissions from the age of 20 until his death at 80, a remarkable 60 years of prominence. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of architect Robert Burn, and educated at the Royal High School. After training with the architect of the British Museum in London, England, Sir Robert Smirke, he returned to Edinburgh in 1812. Here he established a practice from the family builders' yard. In 1841, he took on a pupil, David Bryce, with whom he later went into partnership. From 1844 he worked in London, where he took on his nephew John Macvicar Anderson as a partner. Burn was a true master of many styles, but all are typified by well proportioned simplicity externally and frequent stunning interiors. He died in London and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery just on the edge of the path to the North West of the central buildings. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Craigard Tearooms Arrochar Scotland

Old photograph of Craigard Tearooms in Arrochar, Scotland. Arrochar is a Scottish village located near the head of Loch Long in Argyll and Bute. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is overlooked by a group of mountains called the Arrochar Alps. For over five centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane and before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line and native to their Highland homeland of tall peaks and deep lochs just above the waist of Scotland. The settlement was a key target for Viking raiders who took their boats two miles overland to Tarbet to attack the unprotected inland settlements at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Bridge Ballanoch Scotland

Old photograph of the bridge and cottages at Bellanoch located on the South West side of the Crinan Canal, Argyll, Scotland. The 9 mile long Crinan Canal connects the village of Ardrishaig on Loch Gilp with the Sound of Jura, providing a navigable route between the Clyde and the Inner Hebrides. The canal was originally built for commercial sailing vessels and, later, Clyde puffers to travel between the industrialized region around Glasgow to the West Highland villages and islands. Now it is largely used by leisure craft.



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Old Photograph Ardeneden Garden Scotland

Old photograph of people in the gardens at Ardeneden near Tighnabruaich, Kyles of Bute, Argyll, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Promenade Joppa Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of people on the Promenade in Joppa a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. Joppa is now largely residential, but salt was once produced from sea water by evaporation at Joppa Pans. Practically nothing remains of the industrial buildings. On 16 October 1939 the German Luftwaffe made a daylight air raid up the Forth to bomb British battleships, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Mohawk and HMS Southampton, at Rosyth across the Firth of Forth in Fife. This was the first daylight air raid on Britain. Houses in Morton Street, Joppa, were damaged as a result of the bombing. The German pilots shot down during the raid were buried, following a ceremony at St Philip's Church, in nearby Portobello Cemetery which lies on Milton Road East. They were the first enemy casualties of the Second World War to be buried on British soil. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.





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Old Photograph Drylaw Crescent Blackhall Scotland

Old photograph of cottages on Drylaw Crescent in Blackhall a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Royal Hotel Milnathort Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal Hotel in Milnathort, Perthshire, Scotland. Located on the A91, the main Stirling to St Andrews, Fife, road, Milnathort was developed as a market town with cotton weavers and makers of tartan shawls and plaids.



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Old Photographs St John Street Creetown Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, people and Ellangowan Hotel on St John Street in Creetown near the head of Wigtown Bay, 18 miles Weest of Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village dates from 1785, and became a burgh of barony in 1792. Sir Walter Scott laid part of the scene of Guy Mannering in this neighborhood. Dr Thomas Brown, the metaphysician, born 1778, died 1820, was a native of the parish in which Creetown lies.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Torphins Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Deeside Railway line, used by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert when they travelled by Royal carriage to Ballater, passed through this area until 1966.



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Old Photographs Airth Scotland

Old photograph of stables, Post Office and houses in Airth located six miles North of Falkirk, Scotland. The village has a long association with the River Forth and it was on the banks of the river that a royal dockyard was created. It was used during the years 1507 to 1513 in the reign of King James IV to build ships of war at the pool of Airth. History reveals that a primitive form of dry dock was used. Strong timbers would be used to form the “stocks” for the vessel and a clay dam would prevent the river from penetrating the working area. When the ship was ready, the dam would be breached, at high tide, to enable it to float out into the river. The shipping fleet was destroyed in 1745 by Bonnie Prince Charlie when some ship to shore skirmishes took place by batteries set by Jacobites to drive off the government ships. A number of smaller vessels from the village were burned by loyalist troops and that proved damaging to Airth's subsequent development as a port. However, as late as 1820 sloops built in the shipyards at Airth were among those recorded as operating in the middle of the Forth.




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Old Photograph Glenramskill Scotland

Old photograph of Glenramskill hamlet near Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. There used to be a Scottish whisky distillery here in 1825 which was sold to Robert Relston in 1837. The distillery was finally closed in 1852.



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Old Photograph Gledfield House Scotland

Old photograph of Gledfield House by Ardgay, Sutherland, Scotland. The original house at Gledfield dates from the early 18th. century. The estate was purchased in the 1850s by the Matheson family who were largely responsible for the restoration of the property during the late 19th. century. The Matheson wealth was derived from the Jardine Matheson empire, the great traders of the Far East. Modifications and improvements were carried out by the well known architects Ross & Macbeth, under the instruction of Sir Kenneth Matheson, from 1895 to 1907. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Shore Road Stevenston Scotland

Old photograph of houses and Ardeer Parish Church on Shore Road in Stevenston in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The church was officially opened on Friday, 14 June 1895, the dedicatory service being conducted by the Reverend Alexander Robertson McEwan. Reverend Andrew Morris Moodie’s first sermon in the new church was to the children on the afternoon of Sunday, 16 June 1895. It is early 20th century red sandstone Gothic building in the perpendicular style, designed by John Bennie Wilson. Perpendicular Gothic, it has an octagonal two-stage tower, with corbelled shafts at the angles to the upper stage flanking bipartite belfrey louvred lights; the parapet has battlements and truncated pinnacles are located at the angles.



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Old Photograph Fenwick Road Giffnock Scotland

Old photograph of shops, cars, people, houses and the Tudor Cinema on Fenwick Road in Giffnock located six miles from Paisley, Scotland. Giffnock was primarily a scattered farming community until late 1780. In 1835, the first sandstone quarry in Giffnock opened. Before long, the town became known for this industry, and at its peak, there were four quarries in Giffnock, three surface quarries and one underground quarry, which together employed over 1,000 men. Sandstone from the Giffnock quarries was primarily used within the nearby city of Glasgow and can be found in older parts of the University of Glasgow and the interior of Kelvingrove Art Gallery. Coal mining was also carried out in Giffnock, between 1850 and 1926.



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Old Photograph Carts And Carters Whistlefield Scotland

Old photograph of carts and Carters by the hotel in Whistlefield near, Dunoon, Scotland. Scottish Carters Worked with horses and carts on farms or in towns and villages. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.





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Old Photograph River Lyne West Linton Scotland

Old photograph of the River Lyne by West Linton, Scotland. West Linton a village and civil parish in the Tweeddale area of the Scottish Borders previously the in the historic county of Peeblesshire. At the end of the eighteenth century there were between twenty and thirty looms in the village, rising to about eighty in the early nineteenth century, some weaving household goods but most weaving cotton cloth for Edinburgh and Glasgow merchants. It is estimated that in 1834 about fifty hands worked in the mines and quarries of the area. In 1834 there were five tailors in the village, four dressmakers, two butchers, five carriers, nine retailers of meal, groceries and spirits, two surgeons and four innkeepers. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photographs Victoria Street Craigellachie Moray Scotland

Old photograph of cyclists, car, houses and people on Victoria Street in Craigellachie near Aberlour located twelve miles South of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. Craigellachie, British Columbia, Canada, is named after the Scottish village and is the place where the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven in November 1885. Craigellachie has two malt whisky distilleries, Craigellachie and The Macallan, and is home to the Speyside Cooperage. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.





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