Old Photographs Mary Street Lauriston Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, Tram and horse and cart on Mary Street in Lauriston located two miles East of Falkirk, Scotland. The course of the Antonine Roman Wall runs through this Scottish village. Located on the main street is Hawthorn Cottage, a nineteenth century stone dwelling that was once owned by Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prizes after his death. Nobel lived there while managing an explosives factory near the nearby villages of Redding and Westquarter.

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