Old Photographs Helmsdale Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Helmsdale on the east coast of Sutherland, Scotland. The modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths and valleys as part of the Highland Clearances. Helmsdale Castle, the remains of which were demolished in order to build the new A9 road bridge, was the location of the murder of the 11th Earl of Sutherland in 1567. The Earl and his Countess Marie Seton were poisoned by Isobel Sinclair.



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