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Old Photograph King Street Crieff Perthshire Scotland
Old photograph of a horse and carriage, people and buildings on King Street in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. For a number of centuries Highlanders came south to Crieff to sell their black cattle whose meat and hides were avidly sought by the growing urban populations in Lowland Scotland and the north of England. The town acted as a gathering point or tryst for the Michaelmas cattle sale held each year and the surrounding fields and hillsides were black with the tens of thousands of Highland cows, some from as far away as Caithness and the Outer Hebrides. In 1790 the population of Crieff was about 1,200, which gave a ratio of ten cows per person. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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