Old Photograph Sir Alexander Fleming Scotland

Old photograph of Sir Alexander Fleming who was born on the 6th of August, 1881 at Lochfield, a farm near Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming made a chance discovery. From a contaminated experiment, he found a powerful antibiotic, penicillin.

Old photograph of Darvel situated ten miles East of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. The River Irvine flows through the town and once powered local mills. Sir William Wallace, the Scottish freedom fighter, has also been associated with this area. 15th century minstrel Blind Harry wrote in his poem The Wallace that Wallace and his men defeated an English force at the hill in 1296 during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Blind Harry also tells of how the English general, Fenwick, who supposedly killed Wallace's father, was killed during the battle. Maps of the area now name a mound to the east of Loudoun Hill as Wallace's Grave. A battle between Robert the Bruce and the English was also fought there on 10 May 1307.

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