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Old Photographs Bankfoot Scotland
Old photograph of cottages, houses, people and vehicles in Bankfoot, Perthshire, Scotland. Jessie Margaret King was born at Bankfoot, in the parish of Auchtergaven, Perthshire, in 1862, and received her education at the village school there. She was delicate as a child, but was very studious, and a great reader. Preparing herself for a career as a teacher, but she had been only just entered at Sharp's Institution, Perth, when her father fell ill, and this altered all the family plans. After a long illness he died. It was not until about 1884 that King began to write verse. Her first attempt, a poem entitled, “Cloudland," was printed. For a year or two, she wrote very frequently.
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