Old Photograph West End Kinnesswood Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people at the West End of Kinnesswood, Perthshire, Scotland. This was the birthplace in 1746 of the poet Michael Bruce who was born into a weaver's family and is remembered for his nature poetry in poems such as Ode To The Cuckoo which Edmund Burke described as " the most beautiful lyric in our language ". Bruce died from consumption at the early age of 21. In 1829 meteorologist Alexander Buchan was born here.





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