Old Photographs South Street Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of cars, shops, people and buildings on South Street in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Cyclist Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a young cyclist repairing a puncture near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. 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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Old Photograph Dalrymple Street Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of children and houses on Dalrymple Street in Glasgow, Scotland. 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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Old Photograph Ewing Street Kilbarchan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on Ewing Street in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish village was known for its former weaving industry. At one time there were 800 weavers in this village. 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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Old Photograph Union Canal Falkirk Scotland

Old photograph of the Union Canal by Falkirk, Scotland. 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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Old Photograph Shop Galashiels Scotland

Old photograph of staff outside a shop in Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. Robert Burns wrote two poems about Galashiels, " Sae Fair Her Hair " and " Braw Lads ". The latter is sung by the some of the townsfolk each year at the Braw Lads Gathering. Sir Walter Scott built his home, Abbotsford, just across the River Tweed from Galashiels. The Sir Walter Scott Way, a long distance walking path from Moffat to Cockburnspath passes through Galashiels. 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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Old Photograph Lawn Bowing Green Galashiels Scotland

Old photograph of bowlers on the Lawn Bowling Green in Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Irish Road Worker Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of an Irish road worker in Glasgow, Scotland. Irish Scots are people in Scotland who are of immediate or traceable distinct Irish ancestry. Although migration between Ireland and Scotland has an established history, both ways, owing to their close proximity, Irish migration to Scotland increased in the nineteenth century, and was particularly strong following the Great Famine. In this period, the Irish typically settled in the cities such as Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow, towns like Coatbridge and industrial areas such as Fife. Famous Irish Scots include socialist revolutionary James Connolly, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, footballers Aiden McGeady, Ray Houghton, Owen Coyle and James McCarthy, politician George Galloway, actors Sean Connery, Brian Cox, Peter Capaldi, Gerard Butler, musicians Gerry Rafferty, Maggie Reilly, Jimme O'Neill, Claire Grogan, Fran Healy and comedians Billy Connolly and Frankie Boyle.



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Old Photograph Horse Show Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a horse show by Cupar, Fife, Scotland. 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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Old Photograph Billiards Room Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Scotsmen in a Billiards Room in Glasgow, Scotland. Billiards has a long and rich history stretching from its inception in the 15th century, to the wrapping of the body of Mary, Queen of Scots, in her billiard table cover in 1586, through its many mentions in the works of Shakespeare, including the famous line " let's to billiards " in Antony and Cleopatra, and through the many famous enthusiasts of the sport such as: Mozart, Louis XIV of France, Marie Antoinette, Immanuel Kant, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, George Washington, French president Jules Grévy, Charles Dickens, George Armstrong Custer, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Bob Hope, and Jackie Gleason.



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Old Photograph Market Day St Boswells Scotland

Old photograph of Market Day in St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village is known for being on the route of St Cuthbert's Way, a long distance footpath linking Melrose Abbey to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne off the Northumberland coast in north east England. The name commemorates Saint Boisil, an Abbot of Melrose. The village has an annual gypsy fair, originally a focus for the trade of horses. This fair once attracted Gypsies from most parts of Scotland, northern England and Ireland.



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Old Photograph Entrance To Holyrood Palace Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of soldiers and a Policeman at entrance to Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. 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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Old Photograph Carluke Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, horse and cart and Grain Mill in Carluke located four miles South East of Wishaw in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town was chartered as a Royal Burgh in 1662. Carluke expanded during through the industrial age, with work involving corn milling, cotton weaving, coal mining and the manufacture of bricks, glass, confectionery and jam. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Yeomanry Soldier On A Horse From North Lanarkshire Scotland

Old photograph of a soldier from the Yeomanry in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Lanarkshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1819, which served as a dismounted infantry regiment in the First World War and provided two field artillery regiments in the Second World War, before being amalgamated into The Queen's Own Lowland Yeomanry in 1956. The Yeomanry was not intended to serve overseas, but due to the string of defeats during Black Week in December 1899, the British government realized they were going to need more troops than just the regular army. A Royal Warrant was issued on 24 December 1899 to allow volunteer forces to serve in the Second Boer War. The Royal Warrant asked standing Yeomanry regiments to provide service companies of approximately 115 men each for the Imperial Yeomanry. With the Ayrshire Yeomanry, the regiment co-sponsored the 17th, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire, Company for the 6th, Scottish) Battalion in 1900; in 1901 it provided the 107th, Lanarkshire, Company. In 1901, the regiment was reorganized as mounted infantry as the Lanarkshire Imperial Yeomanry. In 1908 it was transferred into the Territorial Force, returning to a cavalry role and equipping as lancers, under the new title of the Lanarkshire Yeomanry. The regiment was based at Broomgate in Lanark during the first half of the 20th century. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Tourists Leaving Island Of Iona Scotland

Old photograph of tourists leaving Island of Iona, Scotland. 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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Old Photograph Bissets Hotel Gullane Scotland

Old photograph of Bissets Hotel in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Gullane is part of the John Muir Way, a long distance footpath along the coast between Musselburgh and Dunglass. 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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Old Photograph Station Hotel Mintlaw Scotland

Old photograph of the Station Hotel in Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This was a planned Scottish village built around 1813 by James Ferguson the third Laird of Pitfour. Victorian times saw the coming of the railway, the Maud to Peterhead line being built in the 1860s. Mintlaw was a scheduled stop on this line. The station was built a little to the west of the village; perhaps because this was more convenient for the Ferguson family of Pitfour and the Russell family of Aden. Mintlaw Station was the postal address for this whole district for many years until it closed in the 1960's.



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Old Photographs High Street Portobello Scotland

Old photograph of shops, Tram, buildings and people on the High Street in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. Portobello is a beach resort located three miles to the east of the city centre of Edinburgh, along the coast of the Firth of Forth. The area was originally known as Figgate Muir, an expanse of moorland through which the Figgate Burn flowed as the Braid Burn continuation to the sea, with a broad sandy beach on the Firth of Forth. The name Figgate was thought to come from the Saxon term for " cow's ditch ". However, the land was used as pasture for cattle by the monks of Holyrood Abbey and the name is more likely to mean " cow road " as in Cowgate in Edinburgh. In 1296, William Wallace mustered forces on the moor in a campaign that led to the Battle of Dunbar, and in 1650 it was the supposed scene of a secret meeting between Oliver Cromwell and Scottish leaders. A report from 1661 describes a race in which twelve browster-wives ran from the Burn, recorded as the Thicket Burn, to the top of Arthur's Seat.

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Old Photograph Beach Crescent Broughty Ferry Scotland

Old photograph of people walking on Beach Crescent in Broughty Ferry by Dundee, Scotland. Broughty Ferry is situated four miles east of the city centre on the north bank of the Firth of Tay. The area was a separate burgh from 1864 until 1913, when it was incorporated into Dundee. Formerly a prosperous fishing and whaling village, in the 19th century Broughty Ferry became a haven for wealthy jute barons, who built their luxury villas in the suburb. As a result, Broughty Ferry was referred to at the time as the " richest square mile in Europe. "



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Old Photograph Ghillie With Dogs Highland Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a Ghillie with dogs in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. A Ghillie or gillie is a Scots term that refers to a man or a boy who acts as an attendant on a fishing, fly fishing, hunting, or deer stalking expedition, primarily in the Highlands or on rivers such as the River Spey or River Tay. In origin it referred especially to someone who attended on his employer or guests. A ghillie may also serve as a gamekeeper employed by a landowner to prevent poaching on his lands, control unwelcome natural predators such as fox or otter and monitor the health of the wildlife.



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Old Photograph Panmure Arms Hotel Carnoustie Scotland

Old photograph of the Panmure Arms Hotel in Carnoustie, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Horse And Cart And Gardener Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart and gardener in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Gypsy Camp Near Pitlochry Highland Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a gypsy camp near Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Highland Travellers also known as Tinkers are closely tied to the native Highlands, and many traveller families carry clan names like Macfie, Stewart, MacDonald, Cameron, Williamson and Macmillan. They followed a nomadic or settled lifestyle; passing from village to village and are strongly identified with the native Gaelic speaking population. Continuing their nomadic life, they would often pitch their tents on rough ground on the edge of the village and earn money there as tinsmiths, hawkers, horse dealers or pearl fishermen. Many found seasonal employment on farms, e.g. at the berry picking or during harvest time.

Old photograph of a woman cooking food at a gypsy camp near Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Factory Workers Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of factory workers in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. The town of Paisley once supported a number of engineering works some of which relied on the textile industry, others on shipbuilding. Paisley once had five shipyards including John Fullerton and Company, Bow, McLachlan and Company and Fleming and Ferguson. These have declined in the area, with engineering firms such as Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay and Whites Engineering all now closed.



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Old Photograph Fishwives With Creels Auchmithie Scotland

Old photograph of fishwives with creels under the cliffs in Auchmithie, This was the location of the Scarlett Johansson film, Under the Skin in Angus, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Fishwives With Creels Crail East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of fishwives with creels outside a a cottage in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

James Oswald was born in Crail in 1710. He was a Scottish composer, arranger, cellist, and music publisher, who was appointed as Chamber Composer for King George III but also wrote and published many Scottish folk tunes. As a young man he worked in Dunfermline, Fife as a musician and dancing master. Throughout his career he maintained an interest in traditional Scottish music, but he also composed in classical style galant forms. In 1741 he left Edinburgh for London where he eventually set up his own publishing house and published the Caledonian Pocket Companion, a collection of Scottish folk tunes. He was appointed Chamber Composer to George III in 1761, when George became King. He died in 1769.



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Old Photograph Gypsy Caravan Near Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a gypsy caravan near Glasgow, Scotland. Lowland Gypsy Travellers share many cultural features with European Gypsy communities such as a belief in the importance of family and family descent, a strong valuing and involvement with extended family and family events, a preference for self employment.



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Old Photograph Gypsy Camp Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of gypsy camp in Glasgow, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Horse Drawn Delivery Van Dumfries Scotland

Old photograph of a horse drawn delivery van in Dumfries, Scotland.

Archibald Gracie was born June 25, 1755 in Dumfries. He was a Scottish born shipping magnate and early American businessman and merchant in New York City and Virginia whose spacious home, Gracie Mansion, now serves as the residence of the Mayor of New York City, America. He was the son of a weaver named William Gracie. In 1776, Gracie moved to Liverpool, England, and clerked for a London shipping firm. He used his earnings to purchase a part interest in a merchant ship. In April 1784, he sailed to America with a cargo of goods that were his own profit stock. He used the proceedings to invest in a mercantile company in New York City. He later moved to Petersburg, Virginia, and engaged in the export of tobacco to Great Britain. Gracie was a member of the Tontine Association, which supervised the trading of stocks. Gracie expanded his interests and became active in the banking and insurance industries. He was an incorporator of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company and vice president of the New York Insurance Company, a director of the United States Bank and of the Bank of America, and Vice-President of the New York Chamber of Commerce from 1800 to 1825. After the death of his wife, Gracie married Elizabeth Fitch. His two marriages yielded ten children. Gracie was the 18th president of the St. Andrew's Society of New York. He died on April 11, 1829.



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Old Photograph Gypsy Caravan Falkland Fife Scotland

Old photograph of gypsy caravan outside a cottage in Falkland village in Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Malt Cleaner Whisky Distillery Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a Malt Cleaner in a whisky distillery in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Fishwife Smoking Pipe Crail East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a fishwife smoking a pipe outside a cottage in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Lunch Hour School Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of lunch hour in a school in Glasgow, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Town Hall Dysart Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the town hall in Dysart, Fife, Scotland. This was once used as a public weigh in and measures house; guards house and eventually a prison built as an extension in 1617. The building was also known to keep explosives. When this was occupied by Oliver Cromwell's troops in 1651, one of them accidentally dropped a match into a barrel of gunpowder causing the roof to be blown apart. The upper part of the building was rebuilt between 1733 and 1734 with an ashlar bell chamber and a stone ogile roof.



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Old Photograph Rock Climber Highlands Scotland

Old photograph of a rock climber in the Highlands of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Renfield St Stephen's Parish Church Glasgow

Tour Scotland video of of photographs of Renfield St Stephen's Parish Church on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Designed as an Independent Chapel by London architect J T Emmett in 1852 in Decorated Gothic style. Built in beautiful polished Kenmure sandstone with tall clerestoried nave supported on clustered columns with finely moulded capitals each with carved musical angels. Windows by Norman Macdougall 1905, depicting the four Evangelists, and representations of Christian vertues, flanking Christ in Glory, and John Clark. 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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Tour Scotland Photograph Prince Albert Statue George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of the Prince Albert statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Prince Albert, born 1819, died, 1861, married Queen Victoria in 1840 and together they purchased the Balmoral estate in 1852. He was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of twenty he married his first cousin, Queen Victoria, with whom he would ultimately have nine children. Initially he felt constrained by his position as consort, which did not confer any power or duties upon him, but he soon began to lend his support to many public causes, such as educational reform and the worldwide abolition of slavery, and took on the responsibilities of running the Queen's household, estates and office. The statue was erected five years after his death.



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Tour Scotland Photograph James Watt Statue George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of the James Watt statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Watt, born 1736, died 1819, was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, born in Greenock. He designed the first economical steam engine in 1769 and patented an improved version which had a separate condenser to reduce the consumption of fuel and steam. He came up with the idea of the condenser while hiking on Glasgow Green one Sunday in 1765. The unit of electrical power was named in his honour in 1882. 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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Tour Scotland Photograph Sir John Moore Statue George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of the Sir John Moore statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Moore, born 1761, died 1809, was a British army officer brought up in the Trongate, Glasgow. He began his military career at 15 and served as captain lieutenant in the Duke of Hamilton's regiment in America. He rose through the military ranks and earned a reputation as one of the greatest trainers of infantrymen in military history. The effectiveness of his method was shown in the Peninsular War, where he was sent in 1808 to combat Napoleon. He defeated the French army at the Battle of Corunna in 1809, but was killed by a cannon shot. 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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Tour Scotland Photograph Field Marshall Lord Clyde Statue George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of the Field Marshall Lord Clyde statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Lord Clyde, born 1792, died 1863, was educated at the High School of Glasgow. He was a British Army officer who famously commanded the Thin Red Line of the 93rd Highlanders during the Crimean War, driving back the Russians at the Battle of Balaclava. He later became Commander in Chief of the Indian Army and was nicknamed Old Careful because of his concern for the men under his command. 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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Tour Scotland Photograph Thomas Campbell Statue George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of the Thomas Campbell statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Campbell, born, 1777, died 1844, was a Scottish poet, historian and political commentator, born in Glasgow. His successful literary career began with the Pleasures of Hope, published in 1799, and other poems he composed include The Exile Of Erin, Ye Mariners of England and Soldier's Dream. In 1826 he was elected Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University, in competition against Sir Walter Scott. Campbell is buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey, London, England. 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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Tour Scotland Photograph Thomas Graham Statue George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of the Thomas Graham statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Graham, born 1805, died 1869, was a brilliant experimental Scottish chemist, who pioneered laboratory based chemical education at Glasgow University. His studies on the diffusions of gases resulted in Graham's Law and his discovery of dialysis is still used in many medical facilities today. Graham founded the Chemical Society of London, England, in 1841 and was the last person to hold the position of Master of the Mint. 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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Tour Scotland Photograph Robert Burns Statue George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Burns Statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Scotland's national poet born 1759, died 1796. The statue was by George Edwin Ewing, born in Birmingham, England, on 8 July 1828, the son of the Sculptor, Artist James Ewing and Ann Stow, he was the older brother of the sculptor James Alexander Ewing. His childhood was spent in Edinburgh, where he lived with his family at 26 Bread Street, aged 13, in 1841. He and his family later moved to Glasgow, where they lived at 1 Antigua Street, whilst George and his wife, Sarah, lived at 3 Antigua Street, in 1851. He worked in Liverpool and London, where he gained experience working in the modelling room of Covent Garden Theatre, before establishing a successful practice in Glasgow, in 1859. Ewing's most important commission in Glasgow was for the statue of Robert Burns, George Square, his only public statue in bronze, which was later completed with three bronze panels illustrating scenes from Burns' poems, by his brother, J A Ewing. Joined by his brother James in 1875, they lived and worked together at various addresses in the city before George moved to the USA in 1879, for health reasons. He worked in New York and Philadelphia but failed to achieve financial success there and became impoverished. He died suddenly at the Brevoort Hotel, New York, whilst working on medallion portraits of Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. He was found dead in bed on the morning of 26th April 1884, with his room full of gas from a light jet that had been left on. His funeral took place at St Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Hudson Street, New York, on 29 April, and his remains were afterwards buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Flowers Queen's Bridge Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of flowers on the Queen's Bridge over the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Queen's Bridge was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in October 1960, to replace the Victoria Bridge. In order to keep the crossing open during construction, the steel framework of the old bridge was jacked up 6 feet while the new bridge was built beneath it.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Board Water Skiing River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Board Water Skiing in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Chandeliers Band Southern Fried Music Festival Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Chandeliers Band at the Southern Fried Festival on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This wonderful band are from Aberdeen.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Wynntown Marshals Band Southern Fried Music Festival Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland video of the Wynntown Marshals Band at the Southern Fried Festival on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Jet Skiers River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Jet Skiers in the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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