Tour Scotland Video Arrival Window Cathedral Dunblane

Tour Scotland video of the Arrival stained glass windows on ancestry visit to the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. The right and left hand lights depict the Virgin Mother and Simeon. The large tapers behind these figures recall the feast of the Purification, or Candlemas. At the base of the central portion of this window is seen a boat coming into the haven. Above the haven to which the boat is sailing is introduced, in the right of the two central lights, the meeting of Mother and Child, in Heaven with roses falling earthward from Paradise. In the left, three angels are shown holding out a crown and standing on a cloud, with roses falling from it. A vessel from which gushes the Water of Life is seen beside them.

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Tour Scotland Video Departure Window Cathedral Dunblane

Tour Scotland video of the Departure stained glass windows on ancestry visit to the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. These windows contain in the left and right hand light, respectively, the Passage of the Red Sea and the Chariot of Fire, which suggest departure. In the Passage of the Red Sea is introduced Michael the Archangel, Captain of the Hosts of Israel, in the Pillar of Fire, whilst the Starry Host is shown above the cloud. The two central lights of the window are called by the artist De Profundis, from the Depths, and Sursom Corda, Lift Up Your Hearts, respectively. Underneath both is represented a stormy sea, emblematical of life's chequered course.

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Tour Scotland video Apostles Window Cathedral Dunblane

Tour Scotland video of the Apostles stained glass windows on ancestry visit to the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. The figures represented are; St Peter, St John, St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke, St Jude, and St James, the Apostles whose writings are enshrined in the New Testament.

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Tour Scotland Video John the Baptist and The Good Shepherd Window Cathedral Dunblane

Tour Scotland video of the John the Baptist and The Good Shepherd stained glass windows on ancestry visit to the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. The small windows in the south east corner of the South Aisle of the cathedral were erected in memory of Reverend Dr Henry M Hamilton who died in 1903. The Cathedral was once the seat of the bishops of Dunblane, also sometimes called, of Strathearn, until the abolition of bishops after the Scottish Reformation. There are remains of the vaults of the episcopal palace to the south of the cathedral. Technically, it is no longer a cathedral, as there are no bishops in the Church of Scotland, which is a Presbyterian denomination.

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Tour Scotland Video Compassion of Christ Window Cathedral Dunblane

Tour Scotland video of the Compassion of Christ stained glass windows on ancestry visit to the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. The four central lights, each divided into three sections, illustrate a separate aspect of our Lord's compassion. The light to the left portrays Christ's compassion to the individual and shows, from the bottom, Mary Magdalene, Peter, and the two blind men. The light next to it shows compassion in general, with Christ the Good Shepherd at the bottom, the weeping over Jerusalem next and, at the top, the feeding of the five thousand. Our Lord's compassion through his parables is illustrated in the easternmost light, showing, from the bottom, the thirsty being given drink, the return of the prodigal son and the good Samaritan. Next to it is illustrated compassion through the Cross, beginning at the bottom with Gethsemane, and in the centre Christ carrying the Cross, culminating with Christ crucified at the top.

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Old Photograph St Oran's Church Connel Scotland

Old photograph of St Oran's Church in Connel, Argyll, Scotland. Gothic Revival cruciform church of 1888 with lancet and pointed traceried windows, gabled porch and a central tower with corbelled parapet. This village is located on the southern shore of Loch Etive. Connel lies on the A85 trunk road that runs between Oban and Perth.



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Old Photograph Edinbarnet House

Old photograph of Edinbarnet House in Clydebank by Glasgow, Scotland. The Stirling family held Edinbarnet until the estate was sold to Walter Mackenzie, who replaced the 1644 house with a new mansion in 1882. This was damaged by fire a few years later and rebuilt. Sir Robert Mackenzie inherited the estate in 1905. After his death in 1945, the house and most of the estate were sold by his son Neil to local farmer William Laird. In 1988 the house was converted into a nursing home.



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Tour Scotland Video Wee River In Spate Elcho Doocot Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of wee river in spate on visit to the Doocot near Elcho Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. This picturesque 16th century Doocot is very close to Elcho Castle. This type of structure was intended to house pigeons or doves in days gone by in Scotland. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically, and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung.

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Tour Scotland Video Heavy Rain And Flooding On Road By The River Tay Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of heavy rain and flooding on a road by the River Tay in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Heavy Rain And Flooding By A Farm In Rural Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of heavy rain and flooding in a field by a farm on visit near Easter Rhynd in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Sheep By A Flooded Field Rhynd Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of sheep by a flooded field on visit to Easter Rhynd in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Flooding Old Edinburgh Road Bridge Of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of flooding on the Old Edinburgh Road in Bridge Of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Flooding On Road Into Bridge Of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of flooding on the road into Bridge Of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Ardgowan House Scotland

Old photograph of Ardgowan House near Inverkip located four miles South West of Greenock, Scotland. The Ardgowan estate has been held by the Stewart family since the early 15th century. The present house was begun in 1797, and is currently the seat of the Shaw-Stewart Baronets. In 1403, King Robert III granted the lands of Ardgowan to his natural son, Sir John Stewart. In 1667 Archibald Stewart was created a baronet. The 3rd baronet married, in 1730, Helen Houston, heiress of the Shaws of Greenock. Their son Sir John Shaw-Stewart, 4th baronet, commissioned a design for a new house from the architect Hugh Cairncross. Construction began in 1797, and was completed around 1801. The grounds were laid out to designs by James Ramsay from 1800. In 1825 William Burn was appointed by the 6th baronet to extend the house. Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet and his wife Lady Octavia, daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Westminster, continued improvements to the grounds, employing their gardener brought from Eaton Hall, Cheshire, England, to install formal gardens. In 1904 the 8th baronet commissioned Robert Lorimer to design the conservatory. Planting of new trees and shrubs continued until the Second World War, during which the house was employed as a hospital.



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Old Photograph Kirk Street Milngavie Scotland

Old photograph of a tea room, houses and church on Kirk Street in Milngavie, Scotland. A Scottish town in East Dunbartonshire, on the Allander Water, at the northwestern edge of Glasgow.



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Old Photograph Alexander Street Clydebank Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people and houses on Alexander Street in Clydebank by Glasgow, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Mugdock Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Mugdock Castle located two miles North of Milngavie, Scotland. Mugdock Castle was the stronghold of the Clan Graham from the middle of the 13th century. The lands of Mugdock were a property of the Grahams from the mid 13th century, when David de Graham of Dundaff acquired them from the Earl of Lennox. It is possible that his descendant, Sir David de Graham, who died in 1396, built the castle. It was certainly standing by August 1372, when a contemporary document was signed there. In 1458, the lands were erected into the Barony of Mugdock. Later, in 1505, the Grahams were created Earls of Montrose. The most famous of the Montrose Grahams, James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, may have been born at Mugdock Castle in 1612. During the Bishops Wars, a prelude to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Montrose briefly supported the Covenanters. Montrose was imprisoned in Edinburgh in 1641, for intrigues against Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, who was to become his arch enemy. While Montrose was in prison, Lord Sinclair sacked Mugdock. Montrose returned there, however, until 1644 when he began his Royalist revolt, becoming the King's commander in Scotland. Mugdock was sacked again that year. Following the defeat of Charles I, Montrose was executed in 1650, and the lands were forfeited to the Marquess of Argyll. In 1661 Argyll too was executed, and Mugdock was returned to the Grahams, who restored the castle over a two year period, building a mansion within the old castle walls. In 1682 the Grahams bought Buchanan Old House near Drymen, a dwelling more fitting the title of Marquess. The family's official seat was kept at Mugdock Castle for a some time. In 1945, Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander, owner of the large retail chain now known as House of Fraser, purchased Mugdock Castle from the Duke of Montrose. He died in 1966 at Mugdock Castle. During World War II the house was requisitioned for use by the government, but by 1948 was empty. It was demolished in 1967, although foundations and walls remain.



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Old Photograph Craigallion Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Craigallion Bridge which spans the River Allander near Milngavie, Scotland. Milngavie is a Scottish town in East Dunbartonshire, on the Allander Water, at the northwestern edge of Glasgow.



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Old Photograph Crarae House Scotland

Old photograph of Crarae House near Inveraray, Scotland. The woodland garden here was created in 1912 by Lady Grace Campbell, whose nephew, Reginald Farrer, was an intrepid plant hunter, scouring far flung corners of the world for exotic flora.



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Old Photograph Glenfeochan House Scotland

Old photograph of Glenfeochan House near Oban, Scotland.



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Old Photograph The Mine Tyndrum Scotland

Old photograph of the Mine by Tyndrum located South of Glencoe, Scotland. The earliest known record of mining in this area was in 1424. Mined for precious metals rather than lead, the mines supplied King James I with silver. On 30 May 1730, Sir Robert Clifton signed a thirty-eight year lease with the Earl of Breadalbane to mine any metals that he could discover on the earl's estate. In 1740, he discovered lead and established Tyndrum Mine the following year. Bad debts, however, led to his imprisonment in 1745, and he gave up his lease. Later in the 18th century, the Scots Mining Company operated the mine and built a smelting works nearby to turn the mined lead ore, called galena, into metal. Mining for lead, silver and gold continued at various times into the 20th century, but with limited success, however, gold mining continues in the area today.





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Old Photograph Belladrum House Scotland

Old photograph of Belladrum House by Beauly located ten miles West of Inverness, Scotland. Belladrum Estate was once part of the lands owned by the Lords of Lovat, chieftains of the Clan Fraser, to whom belonged much of the land in the area and stretching to the South and West. From them it came into the ownership of the Frasers of Belladrum, whose memorials you can see in Wardlaw Church in the nearby village Kirkhill, and who raised the Regiment of Fraser Fencibles during the Napoleonic Wars. In the 1820s, the Belladrum Frasers sold their estates to merchants by the name of Stewart. They in turn sold in 1857 to James Merry of Belladrum. MP for the Burghs of Falkirk, and an ironmaster from Glasgow.



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Old Photograph Bonshaw Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Bonshaw Tower located one mile South of Kirtlebridge village located five miles North East of Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Bonshaw belongs to the Irving family. It was held in unbroken succession until the death of Sir Robert Beaufin Irving, a former captain of RMS Queen Mary, in 1954.



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Old Photograph Whig's Vault Dunnottar Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the Whig's Vault in Dunnottar Castle, Scotland. One of the darkest chapters of Dunnottar's history is that of the Whig's Vault. In 1685, one hundred and twenty two men and forty five women, whose crime was their refusal to acknowledge the King's supremacy in spiritual matters. They were imprisoned with little food and no sanitation from 24 May until the end of July in the gloomy, airless cellar. Thirty seven Whigs finally agreed to take the oath of allegiance and were released. Twenty five escaped, however fifteen were recaptured and two fell to their deaths during the attempt. A further five prisoners also died.



Tour Scotland video of Dunnottar Castle, Scotland. The ruined medieval fortress situated upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th to 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been an early fortress of the Dark Ages. Dunnottar played a strategic role in the history of Scotland from the Middle Ages through to the Enlightenment, because of the location: it overlooked the shipping lanes to northern Scotland; and is situated on a narrow coastal terrace that controlled land access to the coastal south via Portlethen Moss to Aberdeen during the medieval period. Both the Jacobites and Hanoverians used Dunnottar Fortress. In 1689 during Viscount Dundee's campaign, fourteen suspected Jacobites from Aberdeen were held in the fortress for approximately a year, including George Liddel, professor of mathematics. In 1715 the Dunnottar cannons were utilized by the Jacobites; following this uprising all the possessions of the Earl Mariscal were forfeit, and the fortress was dismantled three years later. Dunnottar Castle was the runaway winner in an 8th Wonder of the World competition. Elsinore Castle in the film Hamlet was in part Dunnottar Castle.

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Old Photograph Sports Day Kirkcowan Scotland

Old photograph of Sports Day in Kirkcowan located six miles from Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. William Gordon, had charters of parts of the barony of Craichlaw, in the parish of Kirkcowan and county of Wigtown. He married Janet Baillie, and was ancestor of the Gordons of Craighlaw. The principal industry has always been agriculture, although in the 19th century two woollen mills were erected on the River Tarf nearby.



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Old Photograph Cladach Chairinish North Uist Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old photograph of a thatched cottage at Cladach Chairinish, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. North Uist is the tenth largest Scottish island and the thirteenth largest island surrounding Great Britain. It has an area of 117 square miles, slightly smaller than South Uist. North Uist is connected by causeways to Benbecula via Grimsay, to Berneray, and to Baleshare. With the exception of the south east, the island is very flat, and covered with a patchwork of peat bogs, low hills and lochans, with more than half the land being covered by water.



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Old Photograph Standing Stone Pollachar South Uist Scotland

Old photograph of the standing stone at Pollachar on South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. This standing stone is situated on a grassy flat a few yards from the rocks on the shore at Pollachur, about 70 yards West of Pollachar Inn. It is an irregularly-shaped prism, 5 feet 8 inches high and 5 feet 9 inches in girth at the foot.



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Old Photograph Road To Plocrapool Isle Of Harris Scotland

Old photograph of the road to Plocrapool on the Island Of Harris, Scotland. A small settlement on the east coast of South Harris in the Outer Hebrides, Plocrapool, occasionally Plockropool, Scottish Gaelic: Plocropol, is located ¾ mile south east of Drinishader and a similar distance north east of Scadabay. It was only well into the 20th century that this small settlement was connected by road. Plocrapool Point extends into East Loch Tarbert a half mile to the east north east. In 1881 settlement comprised of one unroofed, one partially roofed, and fourteen roofed cottages.



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Old Photograph Borve Beach Isle Of Harris Scotland

Old photograph of Borve Beach on the Island Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Coll Isle Of Lewis Scotland

Old photograph of the beach below Coll on Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Horgabost Beach Isle Of Harris Scotland

Old photograph of Horgabost Beach on the Island Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Muness Castle Unst Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of Muness Castle on the Island of Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The castle was built from 1598 for Laurence Bruce of Cultmalindie, half brother to Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney. Earl Robert was succeeded by his son Patrick in 1593. The building may have been constructed under the direction of Andrew Crawford, Earl Patrick's master of works, who also oversaw construction of Scalloway Castle and the Earl's Palace at Kirkwall, Orkney. In 1627 the castle was burnt down, and may never have been fully repaired.





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Old Photograph Half Moon Battery Edinburgh Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the Half Moon Battery in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Half Moon Battery, which remains a prominent feature on the east side of the castle, was built as part of the reconstruction works supervised by the Regent Morton, and was erected between 1573 and 1588.



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Old Photographs Cottages Hirta St Kilda Scotland

Old photograph of cottages on Hirta, St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Hirta is the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago. St. Kilda was part of the Lordship of the Isles, then a property of the MacLeods of Dunvegan from 1498 until 1930. There were three chapels on St. Kilda, dedicated to Saint Brendan, Saint Columba, and Christ Church, but little remains. The islanders had a tough life, and survived by exploiting the thousands of sea birds living on the islands. The islanders had a very democratic system, and decisions were taken by an island council, made up of all the menfolk. The village was set out in the 1830s above Village Bay; in the 1880s some of the population left for Australia, with the remaining inhabitants being evacuated in 1930.

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Old Photographs West Coast Isle Of Harris Scotland

Old photograph of the West coast of the Island Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Agricultural Show Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of people at an Agricultural Show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Loch Seaforth Ferry Kyle Of Lochalsh Scotland

Old photograph of the Loch Seaforth ferry at the pier in Kyle of Lochalsh, across from Isle of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph American Soldiers Perth Scotland

Old photograph of American soldiers marching through Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Harbour Portpatrick Scotland

Old photographs of the harbour in Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village was founded on fishing, operating from the sandy, crescent shaped harbour that remains the focal point of the village today.



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Old Photograph Women Harvesting Crops Carse Of Gowrie Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of women harvesting crops in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Boys With Girds And Cleeks St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of boys with Girds and Cleeks in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The gird, Scots for hoop, and cleek, Scots for hook, was a child's toy in the late 19th century.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boats Pier Loch Leven Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen and fishing boats at a pier on Loch Leven by Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland.





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Old Photograph Woman Knitting Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of an elderly woman knitting outside her cottage in Blair Atholl by Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph German U Boat Rammed Off Fife Ness Scotland

Old photograph of the German U Boat rammed and shelled on 10th of March 1915 by a destroyer off the Fife Ness near Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This U 12 Boat was then scuttled with 20 dead and 10 survivors.



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Old Photograph Port Allen Errol Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Port Allen, Errol, Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. A ferry crossing the Firth of Tay from Lindores Pow in Fife, is on record in 1600 and again in 1722, a harbour ferry evidently existed before 1792, and in 1837 Port Allen was served by a branch road and was one of the principal local harbours.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boats Harbour Lybster Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in the harbour at Lybster, Caithness, Scotland. The Sinclairs of Lybster have long roots running back to the Sinclair earls who ruled Caithness that was once a much larger area taking in much of Sutherland. Tracing further back the family has connections to the Norwegian earls who controlled the north of Scotland for centuries.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boats Coast Auchmithie Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats on the coast at Auchmithie, location of the Scarlett Johansson film, Under the Skin in Angus, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Tay Street Monifieth Scotland

Old photograph of houses and children on Tay Street in Monifieth, by Dundee, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Toll Bridge Eyemouth Scotland

Old photograph of the Toll Bridge over the River Eye to Eyemouth, Scotland. The practice of collecting tolls on bridges harks back to the days of ferry crossings where people paid a fee to be ferried across stretches of water. As boats became impractical to carry large loads, ferry operators looked for new sources of revenue. Having built a bridge, they hoped to recoup their investment by charging tolls for people, animals, vehicles, and goods to cross it.



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Old Photograph Newmills Fife Scotland

Old photograph of vehicles, cottages, houses and people in Newmills near Valleyfield and Torryburn, Fife, Scotland. Captain Graham Ford, who in 1905, took the helm of The Royal Research Ship Discovery, made famous by Scott of the Antarctica, was from Newmills and married a local woman.



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Old Photograph Red Cross Ambulances Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Red Cross Ambulances in Glasgow, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Jail Inveraray Argyll Scotland

Old photograph of the Jail in Inveraray, Scotland. The prison was designed by James Gillespie Graham, born 1776, died 1855, in 1813 after original plans by Robert Reid in 1807. The original plans had called for a courthouse and three prisons, one for males, one for females and one for debtors. The ground obtained was sufficient for such an ambitious plan, but the finance was not and the Prison Commissioners had to be content with only one prison. Both the courthouse and prisons opened in 1820. The courtroom, on the first floor, has a semicircle of large windows giving a magnificent view overlooking the prison yard and, beyond, across Loch Fyne.



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Old Photograph Valleyfield Paper Mills Penicuik Scotland

Old photograph of Valleyfield Paper Mills in Penicuik, Scotland. Papermaking is thought to have started in the area around 1709. The best firm evidence of early paper making lies in the parish cemetery, where the grave of Thomas Rutherford, dated 1735, describes him as " papermaker ". There were at least two established paper mills in the town. In the mid 18th century Charles Cowan, originally a grocer in Leith, established the Cowan Valleyfield Mills. In 1796, Cowan brought in his son, Alexander Cowan, to manage the mill. An adjacent corn mill was purchased in 1803, becoming known as Bank Mill after he converted it to produce the paper on which banknotes were printed. The Valleyfield Mills were used as a prisoner of war camp, mainly for French prisoners, from March 1811 until September 1814, often referred to as the Napoleonic War but more correctly at this period being the Peninsula War.



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Old Photograph Harling Drive Troon Scotland

Old photograph of Harling Drive Street in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Lord And Lady Seafield Cullen House Scotland

Old photograph of Lord and Lady Seafield outside Cullen House, Moray, Scotland. The first Earl of Seafield's branch of the Ogilvy family descended from Sir Walter Ogilvy, whose brother Sir John Ogilvy was the ancestor of the Earls of Airlie. In 1616, the aforementioned Sir Walter Ogilvy's descendant and namesake, Sir Walter Ogilvy, was created Lord Ogilvy of Deskford in the Peerage of Scotland. His son, the second Lord, was created Earl of Findlater in the Peerage of Scotland in 1638. Three years later, in 1641, Lord Findlater obtained a new patent with remainder to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Sir Patrick Ogilvy. Upon his death in 1653, the first Earl of Findlater was succeeded by his son-in-law Sir Patrick while Elizabeth was granted the style and title of Countess of Findlater as though she held the title in her own right. In the late 17th century, James Ogilvy, eldest son of the third Earl of Findlater, was a prominent statesman and served as Secretary of State for Scotland, as President of the Scottish Parliament, as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, as Lord Chancellor of Scotland, as Lord Chief Baron of the Court of the Exchequer in Scotland and as a Scottish Representative Peer. In 1698, thirteen years before he succeeded his father, he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland in his own right as Lord Ogilvy of Cullen and Viscount of Seafield, with remainder, failing heirs male of the body, to heirs of entail. In 1701, he was further honoured when he was created Lord Ogilvy of Deskford and Cullen, Viscount of Reidhaven and Earl of Seafield, also in the Peerage of Scotland and with the same remainder. In 1711, he succeeded his father as fourth Earl of Findlater.



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Old Photograph Torduff Reservoir Scotland

Old photograph of a house by Torduff Reservoir, situated one mile South East of Juniper Green, South West of Edinburgh, Scotland. Torduff is located below Clubbiedean Reservoir in the Pentland Hills. Opened in 1851, it is now operated by Scottish Water for the supply of drinking water.



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Old Photograph St Abb's Head Scotland

Old photograph of St Abb's Head near the village of St Abbs, Scottish Borders, Scotland. A signal station was established on the cliffs here before 1820 and the facilities were shared by Trinity House and Her Majesty's Coastguard. The Northern Lighthouse Board recommended the building of a lighthouse at St Abb's Head after the sinking of the Martello on Carr Rock in 1857. The lighthouse was designed and built by the brothers David Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson and assisted navigation before and after sight of the Bell Rock and Isle of May lights disappeared from view.



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Old Photograph Methven Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Methven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle largely dates from 1680, and was one of the last large houses built in the style of a castle in Scotland. It is on the site of much older castle.





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Old Photograph Mar Lodge Troon Scotland

Old photograph of Mar Lodge in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Chapel Dunecht House Scotland

Old photograph of the Chapel at Dunecht House in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford died in 1880 and his body was stolen in 1881. His body had been removed from a burial vault within the private chapel but the removal of the body was not discovered until several months later after a note signed Nabob was received. After extensive searches the body was eventually found on 18 July 1882 near a gravel pit close to the house. The body was later transported to Haigh Hall and buried again in the family vault.



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