Old Photograph Scottish Soldiers Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of two Scottish soldiers from Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Pitlochry today dates largely from Victorian times, although the areas known as Moulin and Port-na-craig are much older. History records that Moulin Kirk was granted by the Earl of Atholl to Dunfermline Abbey in Fife in 1180 and Moulin became a burgh of barony in 1511. Port-na-craig was the site of the original ferry over the River Tummel which operated until the suspension footbridge was built in 1913. Building between these two separate communities followed the construction of the military road north in the 18th century which followed the line of the present main street. Moulin contained the parish school which was attended by Alexander MacKenzie, born 1822, died 1892 the second Prime Minister of Canada.



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