Tour Scotland Video Black Highland Cows Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland video of black Highland Cows on a road on ancestry visit to the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. Highland coos are a Scottish cattle breed. They have long horns and long wavy coats that are coloured black, brindle, red, yellow, white, silver or dun, and they are raised primarily for their meat. They are a hardy breed due to their native environment, the Highlands of Scotland. This results in long hair, giving the breed its ability to overwinter. Bulls can weigh up to 800 kilograms, 1,800 pounds, and cows up to 500 kilograms, 1,100 pounds. Their milk generally has a very high butterfat content, and their meat, regarded as of the highest quality, is gaining mainstream acceptance as it is lower in cholesterol than other varieties of beef.

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Tour Scotland Video Early Autumn Waterfall Highlands

Tour Scotland video of an early Autumn waterfall on ancestry visit to the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. The best place to visit Scottish waterfalls include; Plodda Falls, near Glen Affric. Falls of Kirkaig, Assynt; Mealt Falls, Kilt Rock, Isle of Skye; Inchree Falls, Onich; Grey Mare’s Tail near Moffat; Steall Falls, Glen Nevis near Fort William; Reekie Linn, Glen Isla, Angus; Falls of Bruar near Blair Atholl, Perthshire; Falls of Glomach, Kintail; Linn of Ruthrie, Aberlour; Glenashdale Falls, Isle of Arran; Falls of Clyde near Lanark; Black Spout, Pitlochry; Eas a’ Chual Aluinn, Assynt; Moness Falls, Birks of Aberfeldy, Perthshire; Falls of Measach, Corrieshalloch Gorge near Ullapool.

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Tour Scotland Video Loch Lochy Lochaber

Tour Scotland video of Loch Lochy, Lochaber, Scotland. Located 10 miles south west of Loch Ness along the Great Glen, the loch is over 9 miles long with an average width of about 0.6 mile. The River Lochy flows from its south western end while the Caledonian Canal links its north eastern extent to Loch Oich. The Battle of the Shirts was fought at its northern end near Laggan in July 1544, between Clan Donald and Clan Fraser. The Stand off at the Fords of Arkaig in September 1665 ended a 360 year feud between the Camerons and the Chattan Confederation. It took place at Achnacarry, on the isthmus between Loch Lochy and Loch Arkaig. Folklore tales mention a supernatural being called the River Horse which was said to emerge from the lake and assume a horse's shape before feeding on the loch's banks. The River Horse was also known as the Lord Of The Lake and the Water King and would overturn boats and entice mares from their pastures. Another tradition was that of the River Bull, a gentle, harmless creature, who would emerge from the lake into the pasture of cows.



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Tour Scotland Video Early Autumn Drive To Elcho Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of an early Autumn mostly cloudy drive through Bridge of Earn on ancestry visit to Elcho Castle just South of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle, located on the South Bank of the River Tay, consists of a Z-plan tower house, with fragments of a surrounding wall with corner towers. The Castle was built on the site of an older structure about 1560, and is one of the best surviving examples of its date in Scotland. A large portion of the Castle is accessible, although floors in some rooms have fallen, and much of the building can be walked through. Elcho Castle was built in the latter half of the 16th century for the Wemyss family.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Drive To Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of an Autumn cloudy day drive on the Rhynd Road located South of the River Tay through the city of Perth on ancestry visit to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The castle is the Regimental Headquarters and Museum of The Black Watch. The castle, located on Hay Street, originally a few hundred metres north of the medieval town, dates to 1631, though its origins are believed to go back a further three hundred years. It originally served as the seat of the Earls of Kinnoull, and stood within a walled enclosure on a terrace overlooking the North Inch Park. After falling into neglect in the early 19th century, the Castle was rebuilt, and extensively remodelled on a larger scale in 1862 in the Baronial style by the architect David Smart. In 1962, the Castle became the Regimental Headquarters and Museum of The Black Watch.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Loch Achray Trossachs

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of Loch Achray a small freshwater loch located west of West of Callander on ancestry, history visit and trip to the Trossachs. The south side of the loch is wooded and well served by woodland tracks and forest roads. The loch is popular with anglers who fish for brown trout. Loch Achray is well known for its sheltered location, giving rise to placid waters offering magnificent reflections of the woodland to the south, the mountains and forests to the north and the majestic crags of Ben Venue to the West. Loch Achray was for a time the home of James " Beg " Stewart, born 1410, died 1470, of Baldorran, the son of James Mor Stewart, known as " James the Fat ", who fled into exile in Ireland when his father Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany was executed for treason by King James I of Scotland in 1425. James the Fat would never return to Scotland, and he was unable to inherit the Albany estates, but James " Beag " Stewart was able to secure a royal pardon and return to Scotland. The loch is now popular with anglers fishing for brown trout.

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Old Photograph Beach Dunoon Scotland

Old photograph of the beach by Victoria Parade walking path in Dunoon, Cowal Peninsula, Argyll, Scotland. Dunoon is the main town on the Cowal peninsula in the south of Argyll and Bute. It is on the west shore of the upper Firth of Clyde, to the south of the Holy Loch and to the north of Innellan. The town and surrounding area are known as a destination for outdoor pursuits, including walking, running, golfing, kayaking, sailing, fishing, climbing, triathlon and mountain biking.



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Old Photograph South Beach Avenue Ardrossan Scotland

Old photograph of houses on South Beach Avenue in Ardrossan located in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Noted natives and past residents included; John Kerr FRS, born 17 December 1824, died 15 August 1907, who was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect; Calum Kennedy, born 1928, died 2006, was a popular exponent of Scottish Gaelic song in the 1950s and 60s, ran a hotel in Ardrossan towards the end of his life; Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell, recipient of the Victoria Cross, came from Ardrossan,



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Old Photograph Beach Southend Scotland

Old photograph of the beach by Southend, which is situated 8 miles South of Campbeltown, Scotland. The village is located beside Dunaverty Bay, which at one end has a rocky promentory called Dunaverty Rock, where a fort was located. It is reputed that during the Dunaverty Massacre the Catholic MacDonalds were burned alive in their stronghold at Dunaverty Castle. The village is also reputed to be the location where Saint Columba first set foot in Scotland. On a rock near the village are footprints called Columba's Footprints where it is claimed he first preached on Scottish soil, after being banished from Ireland.





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Old Photograph Putting Green Nairn Scotland

Old photograph of people on the Putting Green in Nairn, Moray, Scotland. Nairn is an ancient fishing port and market town around 16 miles of Inverness. It was the county town of the wider county of Nairn also known as Nairnshire. The town is now best known as a seaside resort, with two golf courses, and award winning beaches. Charlie Chaplin, used to holiday every year in Nairn and stayed at the Newton Hotel.



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Old Photograph Children Beach Brodick Scotland

Old photograph of children playing on the beach by Brodick on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. Brodick has the Isle of Arran's main ferry terminus which connects Brodick to Ardrossan on the mainland. The ferries are operated by Caledonian MacBrayne. MV Caledonian Isles plies this route year round, with MV Isle of Arran providing additional sailings during the summer. Brodick is a popular holiday destination and a base for hill walking.



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Old Photograph The Inn Abington Scotland

Old photograph of The Inn in Abington, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This village is close to the M74 motorway, marking the point where it changes name to the A74 Motorway, following the upgrade of the former A74 road. The West Coast Main Line between Glasgow and London, England, also emerges from the Clyde Valley at this point and begins its ascent up Beattock Summit, alongside the motorway. Abington was at one time served by a station on the railway, but this was closed as a result of the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.





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Old Photograph Granny Kempock Stone Gourock Scotland

Old photograph of the Granny Kempock Stone in Gourock, Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. The megalithic Kempock Stone, popularly known as Granny Kempock, stands on a cliff behind Kempock Street, the main shopping street in Gourock, Scotland. The stone, or menhir, is grey mica schist and of indeterminate origin, but it has been suggested that it is an old altar to the pagan god Baal, or a memorial to an ancient battle. Supposedly there is a superstition that for sailors going on a long voyage or a couple about to be married, walking seven times around the stone would ensure good fortune. A flight of steps winds up to the stone from Kempock Street below. There is also an association with witchcraft. In 1662 Mary Lamont and a group of other local women were burned to death in the local area after it was alleged that she and her coven had danced around the stone on the sabbath, with the intention of cursing and sinking shipping that passed through the Clyde by casting the long-stone into the sea.



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Old Photograph Salvaging Bremse Scapa Flow Scotland

Old photograph of salvaging SMS Brems, a Brummer class minelaying German light cruiser at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Historically, the main British naval bases were located near the English Channel to better face England's old enemies, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. In 1904, in response to the build up of the German Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet, it was decided that a northern base was needed to control the entrances to the North Sea. First Rosyth in Fife was considered for the base, then Invergordon at Cromarty Firth, but construction in both places was delayed, leaving them largely unfortified by the outbreak of WWI. Scapa Flow had been used many times for exercises in the years before the War, and when the time came for the fleet to move to a northern station, Scapa Flow was chosen for the main base of the British Grand Fleet. Following the German defeat in World War I, 74 ships of the Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet were interned in Gutter Sound at Scapa Flow pending a decision on their future in the peace Treaty of Versailles.

On 21 June 1919, after nine months of waiting, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, the German officer in command at Scapa Flow, made the decision to scuttle the fleet because the negotiation period for the treaty had lapsed with no word of a settlement, he was not kept informed that there had been a last minute extension to finalise the details.

After waiting for the bulk of the British fleet to leave on exercises, he gave the order to scuttle the ships to prevent their falling into British hands. The Royal Navy made desperate efforts to board the ships to prevent the sinking, but the German crews had spent the idle months preparing for the order, welding bulkhead doors open, laying charges in vulnerable parts of the ships, and quietly dropping important keys and tools overboard so valves could not be shut.

The British did eventually manage to beach the battleship Baden, the light cruisers Nürnberg, and Frankfurt together with 18 destroyers, but the remaining 52 ships, the vast bulk of the High Seas Fleet, were sunk without loss of life. Nine German sailors died when British forces opened fire as they attempted to scuttle their ship, reputedly the last casualties of WWI.



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Old Photograph Lanark Road Juniper Green Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of people and buildings on Lanark Road in Juniper Green located South West of Edinburgh, Scotland. Juniper Green's earliest mention is in the Kirk records of Colinton in 1707. However it is largely called Curriemuirend up until the end of the 18th century. Traditionally, its major industries were paper and snuff set in the river valley of the Water of Leith. Only with the building of a railway station in 1874 did the village begin to prosper.



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Old Photograph Langton Gate Street Duns Scotland

Old photograph of buildings and people on Langton Gate Street in Duns in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish town was created a Burgh of Barony in 1490 by King James IV for John and George Hume of Ayton, and the townsfolk were given the right to hold a market every Wednesday, and to hold a week long annual fair between Pentecost and Trinity Sunday. Duns suffered badly in cross border raiding and feuding, and was burned to the ground three times within 14 years, in 1544, 1545 and 1558 during the war of the Rough Wooing.



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Old Photograph Blacksmith Shoeing A Horse Midlem Scotland

Old photograph of a blacksmith shoeing a horse in Midlem, a small village located four miles South of Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland. A blacksmith was also a farrier, a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves, if necessary. A farrier combined some blacksmith's skills, fabricating, adapting, and adjusting metal shoes, with some veterinarian's skills, knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the lower limb, to care for horses feet.



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Old Photograph Royal Navy Marines Invergordon Scotland

Old photograph of Royal Navy Marines rowing to the beach at Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Invergordon has been a port since the early 18th Century. The Royal Navy visited the port during the Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745. The town of Invergordon was named after Sir William Gordon who was a prominent landowner. In 1907, Invergordon and Cromarty Firth welcomed 14.5 thousand men and 20 torpedo boats, 12 battleships, six cruisers, and two scout ships. In 1912, the UK Ministry of Defense established a permanent naval base there which was in use until 1993. During World War I, Cromarty Firth was a fully equipped navy base and dockyard. The Invergordon Mutiny was an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet that took place on 15 and 16 September 1931. For two days, ships of the Royal Navy at Invergordon were in open mutiny, in one of the few military strikes in British history.



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Old Photograph Patrick Carnegie Simpson Scotland

Old photograph of Patrick Carnegie Simpson who was raised at his aunt's house in Morningside, Edinburgh, Scotland. Patrick, born 1865, died 1947, was a leading Presbyterian churchman during the opening years of the 20th Century. After being ordained in 1895, he served in a number of towns in Scotland and England, notably Renfield Church, Glasgow, and Egremont, Wallasey, before being appointed, in 1914, to the Chair of Church History at Westminster College, Cambridge. During the period leading up to the Scottish Church Crisis between 1900 and 1905, he worked closely with Principal Rainy, his former professor at New College, Edinburgh, in his efforts to secure the union of the Free and the United Presbyterian Churches. In the post World War I period, he played a significant role in the area of inter Church relations, particularly during the Lambeth Conversations and the Revised Prayer Book controversy. As an author, two of his books, The Fact of Christ and The Life of Principle Rainy earned widespread acclaim. In 1928, Carnegie Simpson was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of England. He retired from Westminster College in 1937. It was during a trip to Norway that Carnegie Simpson met his future wife, the daughter of a Danish Lutheran pastor, whom he married in 1894. Agnes Schmalz came from a very different background to the austere Presbyterian environment in which Carnegie Simpson had been brought up. She was a highly accomplished pianist and " Lieder " singer and accustomed to moving in cosmopolitan and artistic circles. One of Carnegie Simpson's earliest publications, a joint publication in collaboration with his wife, is a translation from the German dedicated to the life of Richard Wagner. They had one child, a daughter, Agnes Margaret Carnegie Simpson, who was among the pioneering generation of women doctors, qualifying from Edinburgh University in 1924. Carnegie Simpson died in Cambridge in 1947.



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Old Photograph The Pans Port Elgin Scotland

Old photograph of The Pans Port in Elgin, a former cathedral city and Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland. The arch to the South East of the Cathedral is known as the Panns Port or Water Yett and represents the eastern gateway to the Cathedral and College precinct. The cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was established in 1224 on land granted by King Alexander II outside the burgh of Elgin and close to the River Lossie. It was unaffected by the Wars of Scottish Independence but suffered extensive fire damage in 1390 following an attack by Robert III's brother Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, also known as the Wolf of Badenoch. In 1402 the cathedral precinct again suffered an incendiary attack by the followers of the Lord of the Isles. The number of clerics required to staff the cathedral continued to grow, as did the number of craftsmen needed to maintain the buildings and surrounds. The number of canons had increased to 25 by the time of the Scottish Reformation in 1560, when the cathedral was abandoned and its services transferred to Elgin's parish church of St Giles. After the removal of the lead that waterproofed the roof in 1567, the cathedral steadily fell into decay. Its deterioration was arrested in the 19th century, by which time the building was in a substantially ruinous condition.



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Old Photograph Wishing Well Elgin Scotland

Old photograph of the Wishing Well by The Oakwood Motel two miles West of Elgin, a former cathedral city and Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland. The Motel was built in 1932. The 14 cabins added in 1939 made the Oakwood the first motel in Scotland, perhaps in Britain. The 100 metres deep Artesian well provides a never failing water supply.



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Old Photograph Breachacha Castle Isle Of Coll Scotland

Old photograph of Breachacha Castle on the shore of Loch Breachacha on the Isle of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. This is a 15th century tower house that was a stronghold of the Clan Macleas of Coll, the island having been granted to John Maclean in 1431. This castle was superseded by a new dwelling in 1750 but continued to be occupied for a time, falling into a ruinous state only in the middle of the 19th century. The castle was restored to habitable condition only in the 1960s, by Major Neil V. MacLean Bristol and his wife Lavinia.





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Old Photograph Beach Scarinish Scotland

Old photograph of the beach by Scarinish, the main village on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. There is a ferry service from here to Oban on the Scottish mainland.



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Old Photograph Caledonian MacBrayne Ferry Colintraive Scotland

Old photograph of the Caledonian MacBrayne Ferry at Colintraive village on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Colintraive lies on the A886 road, which crosses to the Isle of Bute here. A ferry crosses the 400 yard gap to Rhubodach on Bute, giving access to the tourist town of Rothesay. The name Colintraive derives from Gaelic and means " swimming strait " or " swimming narrows ". In the past, cattle were swum over from the Isle of Bute to Colintraive on their way to the markets of lowland Scotland.



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Old Photograph Duisdale Hotel And Gardens Isleornsay Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of Duisdale Hotel and gardens Isleornsay on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Emigration from the Highlands and Islands was endemic in the 19th century and the company that ran the Isleornsay store, MacDonald and Elder, acted as emigration agents from the early 1800s. In 1822 they advertised that they were able to " to fit out transports for the conveyance of passengers from Inverness and the West Coast of Scotland to the east coast of Canada. " In the 1830s a programme of assisted passages to Australia from the Sleat peninsula was organised. The William Nicol sailed to Sydney from Isleornsay in July 1837 with 322 passengers including 70 families from Sleat. At the time it was reported that so many local people wished to emigrate that the ship could not accommodate all those who wanted to embark.



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Old Photograph Witches Rock Glen Tilt Scotland

Old photograph of the Witches Rock overlooking the River Tilt in Glen Tilt by Blair Castle in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Scottish women who were deemed to be witches were thrown off the rock. Those who were supposed to be witches could save themselves from drowning; those who weren’t drowned !



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Old Photograph Panmure Hotel Edzell Scotland

Old photograph of the Panmure Hotel in Edzell, Angus, Scotland. The existing village of Slateford was expanded in the early 19th century by the Earl of Panmure. The new parish church, replacing the one in the old village, was built in 1818 on the village's north boundary, and led to the official renaming of the village as Edzell. In 1861, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Edzell, as part of a Royal progress through Angus and Kincardineshire, just weeks before Albert's sudden death. Edzell was not connected to the railway until 1896, and only had a passenger service until 1931, although it reopened experimentally in the summer of 1938. The line closed to freight traffic in 1964.



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Old Photograph Parish Church Hurlford Scotland

Old photograph of the Parish Church in Hurlford, East Ayrshire, Scotland. Robert Dunsmuir was a Scottish Canadian coal mine developer, owner and operator, railway developer, industrialist and politician in British Columbia, Canada. Dunsmuir was born on August 31, 1825, in Hurlford, Scotland to 20 year old James Dunsmuir and his wife Elizabeth in 1825. At the time of his birth, his family was engaged in the coal business in his native Ayrshire. On September 11, 1847, at the age of 22, Dunsmuir married 19year old Joan White. At the end of 1850, Dunsmuir's mentor, and his aunt's husband, Boyd Gilmour, had signed on with the Hudson's Bay Company to exploit a coal finding on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island at Fort Rupert. Because some of those who were to travel with him decided not to go upon hearing news of the conditions and prospects there, Gilmour sought replacements for his party at the last moment. On 24 hours' notice of this opportunity, Dunsmuir signed on. They sailed on the Pekin, for Fort Vancouver, via Cape Horn, on December 19, 1850. It took 191 days for them to arrive. Eight days later, on July 8, 1851, Joan Dunsmuir gave birth to their third child, James Dunsmuir. He eventually becamne one of the founders of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company which built the rail line from Esquimalt to Nanaimo, later extended to Wellington, Victoria and Courtenay. His company received a grant of land comprising 20% of Vancouver Island as an incentive to build and equip the railway line to be owned and operated by the company. The Dunsmuir railway station was named after him. Dunsmuir was elected to the BC Legislature representing Nanaimo in the 1882 election while away on a European holiday, and was re-elected in 1886. Shortly after election to the legislature, he entered the cabinet. Dunsmuir died on April 12, 1889, at Victoria, British Columbia while still in office.





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Old Photograph Old Parish Church Scone Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the old Parish Church and graveyard in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. Scottish Church built in 1286 near to Scone Palace. Moved to present site in 1806 using stone from original building.





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Old Photograph Knockcushan Street Girvan Scotland

Old photograph of Knockcushan Street in Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. A plot of ground bounded on the North by Knockcushan Street and on the East by Dalrymple Street was acquired by Girvan town council in 1787 for market and other use. A tolbooth was built on part of the site, but by about 1820 it was ruinous. A market house having a town hall on the upper floor was built on the West part of the site about 1822, and the steeple in 1825. The architect is unknown but the steeple and three houses on the East part of the burgh's property were built by local contractors, Denham, Davidson and McWhinnie, at a total cost of £1,633. Ten years after the completion of the steeple the prisons inspector noted that a marked improvement in the peace of the town is said to have followed the building of this prison.



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Old Photograph Post Office Coatbridge Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the Post Office on Church Street in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The town is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area. In 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army seized Coatbridge from government troops on their march to Edinburgh in an action described as the Canter of Coatbridge. The Monkland Canal was constructed at the end of the 18th century initially to transport coal to Glasgow from the rich local deposits. The invention of the hot blast furnace process in 1828 meant that Coatbridge's ironstone deposits could be exploited to the maximum by the canal link and hot blast process. The new advances meant that iron could be produced with two thirds less fuel. By the mid 19th century there were numerous hot blast furnaces in operation in Coatbridge.



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Old Photograph Church Street Stanley Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses on Church Street in Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland. Stanley is a village on the right bank of the River Tay in an area popular for salmon fishing. The village gained its name from Lady Amelia Stanley, the daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl, decided, in the 18th century to harness of the nearby River Tay to power a cotton mill., Richard Arkwright, an inventor of cotton spinning machinery set up a cotton mill in Stanley as well as one at New Lanark. Stanley Mills opened in 1787, and by its 10th year employed 350 people. The village was built to house the workers of the mill. Work on the village began in 1784. It was designed by the Duke of Atholl’s factor James Stobie. By 1799 the village’s population was around 400, and by 1831 it had reached around 2000 residents.



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Old Photograph Church Street Annan Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people, and buildings on Church Street in Annan near Dumfries, Scotland. Annan stands on the River Annan from which it is named. It was at Annan in December 1332 that supporters of Robert The Bruce overwhelmed Balliol's forces to bring about the end of the first invasion of Scotland in the Second War of Scottish Independence. The Balliols and the Douglases were also more or less closely associated with Annan. During his retreat from Derby, Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed at an Inn on the High Street. Annan served as a maritime town whose shipyards built many clippers and other boats. Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnston, born in Annan on 19 March 1764, died 5 January 1823, was briefly Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, Australia after leading the rebellion later known as the Rum Rebellion.



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Old Photograph Parish Church Tarves Scotland

Old photograph of the Parish Church in Tarves, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Much of the present village was planned and laid out by the Marquess of Aberdeen in the 19th century. Tarves contains a shop named Adam Duthie. Tarves Parish Church was built alongside the site of a previous church at the eastern edge of Tarves, a large village with a central square. There is a large graveyard, which extends down hill to the south and east. The main road through the village skirts the graveyard boundary and the very large former manse stands to the east.



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Old Photograph High Street Monifieth Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses, cars and people on the High Street in Monifieth, by Dundee, Scotland. Monifieth remained a small village, comprising a number of turf huts until the early 19th century. In the eighteenth century, the economy of the parish was mainly dependent on agriculture. Other industries included quarrying and weaving within the home. During the 19th century, the village gradually expanded following the introduction of larger scale industries to the area, including manufacture of machinery for flax mills in 1811. James Low and Robert Fairweather had set up their foundry in the village at the start of the nineteenth century and in 1815 developed the first carding machine for flax tow in the area. With the growth of the textile industry in Dundee and Angus the business grew rapidly, and, by the late nineteenth century, James F Low & Co Ltd was producing a wide range of machines used for the processing and spinning of jute, flax and similar fibres. As well as building machinery for local use, the firm attracted orders from across the world and by the 1880s the Monifieth Foundry employed about 300 workers.



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Old Photograph Church of the Holy Rood Carnoustie Scotland

Old photograph of the Church of the Holy Rood in Carnoustie, Scotland. The town is at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast in Angus. This Episcopalian church lies east to west in a busy residential area near Carnoustie town centre. It stands within well maintained grounds with a small graveyard. The church consists of a nave, chancel, entrance porch and round tower. It was built with coursed sandstone blocks of different sizes and has fine ashlar surrounds and corner stones. The roof and spire are slated, with large slates used on the nave and chancel roofs.



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Old Photograph Royal Hotel Ardrishaig Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal Hotel in Ardrishaig, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is located at the southern entrance to the Crinan Canal, on the side of a hill bordering Loch Fyne immediately to the south of Lochgilphead. The Crinan Canal between Crinan and Ardrishaig in Argyll and Bute in the west of Scotland is operated by Scottish Canals. The canal, which opened in 1801, takes its name from the village of Crinan at its western end. The canal was built to provide a short cut for commercial sailing and fishing vessels and later Clyde puffers to travel between the industrialised region around Glasgow to the West Highland villages and islands. It was designed by civil engineer John Rennie and work started in 1794, but was not completed until 1801, two years later than planned.



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Old Photograph Church Greenlaw Scotland

Old photograph of the church and graveyard in Greenlaw, located in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills on Blackadder Water at the junction of the A697 and the A6105 in the Scottish Borders of Scotland. There has been a church on the site since before 1147. The present church was built 1675 and lengthened 1712. The east and west lofts were erected 1721 and the north loft 1784. A prison, resembling a church tower, was added by 1712 and was in use until 1824. The tower houses the town clock and church bell, provided by Thomas Broomfield c1696 and recast 1726.



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Old Photograph Church Leitholm Scotland

Old photograph of the church in Leitholm located four miles North of Coldstream, Scottish Borders, Scotland. There was no permanent church in Leitholm until 1835 when the present church was opened as a relief church. In 1951 a new pulpit, font, communion table and pipe organ were donated and new pews in 1968. The clock in the gallery is in memory of three young boys who were tragically drowned during the annual trip to Spittal in 1966. This Scottish village was founded, along with Eccles, by settler John Edgar. Other places nearby include the Crosshall cross, Duns, Eccles, Ednam, Fogo, Greenlaw, Hume Castle, Polwarth, Westruther.



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Old Photograph Children Beach Lossiemouth Scotland

Old photograph of children playing on the beach by Stotfield, Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland Alexander Edwards was born on 4 November 1885 in Stotfield, Lossiemouth. He was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the son of a fisherman and became a cooper working in the herring fishery. He served with the 1/6th Morayshire Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders, 51st Highland Division and joined the battalion at Elgin in July 1914. Edwards demonstrated tremendous bravery and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Pilckem Ridge during the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele. On the 21 March 1918 the Germans began the ferocious Kaiserschlacht spring offensive and on 24 March, Edwards was killed and missing in action at Bapaume Wood, east of Arras, France.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Monymusk Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Monymusk railway station was a station on the Alford Valley Railway in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire. which closed in 1950. This planned Scottish village began in 1170, was rebuilt in 1840, and in modern times serves as a site for fishing on the nearby River Don.



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Old Photograph Central Hotel Peebles Scotland

Old photograph of the Central Hotel in Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. Sir Robert John Mathieson Inglis, was born at Tantah House in south Peebles on 5 May 1881, the son of James C. Inglis. He was educated locally at Bonnington Park Academy then went to Edinburgh University to study Mathematics and Engineering. In 1900 he joined the North British Railway as a junior design engineer. He quickly rose to be Resident Engineer for the Lothian area and was involved in the widening works between Edinburgh and Portobello, including a reconfiguration of the tunnels going through Calton Hill under the Royal High School. In 1909 he became Chief Assistant for New Works for all of the North British Railway, aged only 28. In 1911 he received yet another boost to his career, being appointed an Engineer to the Ministry of Transport for Great Britain. In 1912 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Willam Archer Porter Tait, Benjamin Hall Blyth, Charles Alexander Stevenson and William Allan Carter. In 1948 he went to South Africa to advise upon and establish the new Durban railway station. In 1949 he returned to Scotland as Chairman of the Glasgow and District Transport Committee with the primary purpose of electrifying the Glasgow and Clyde Valley railway system. He retired to Helensburgh in 1957 aged 76, and took on the titular role of Deputy Lieutenant for Dunbartonshire. He died in Helensburgh on 23 June 1962.



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Old Photograph Post Box Finzean Scotland

Old photograph of a Post Box in Finzean, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In the 10th century the lands of Finzean became the personal property of Scottish Kings, who used the Forest of Birse as a hunting reserve. In the 12th century King William the Lion gifted the area to the Bishops of Aberdeen who continued to own it until the 16th century, during which they gradually sold off all the land. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Farquharson family acquired the whole of the eastern part of Finzean, while the Forest of Birse was owned by the Earl of Aboyne, but with ancient common rights retained by all the inhabitants of Birse parish to this day. Finzean was the subject of many paintings by the artist Joseph Farquharson, whose family have owned Finzean Estate, which occupies the eastern half of Finzean, since the 17th century.



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Old Photograph Crail's Lane St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Crail's Lane in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Crail's Lane is on land originally belonging to Crail priory in the East Neuk of Fife.



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Old Photograph Oldest Shop In Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of the oldest shop in Dundee, Scotland. JA Braithwaite tea and coffee merchants first opened in 1868 at The Pillars in City Square. It moved to 6 Castle Street in 1932. They have an impressive range of 100 different teas and 30 different coffees to choose from as well as an extensive range of tea and coffee pots.



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Old Photograph Moscow Scotland

Old photograph of Moscow on the A719 road some 4 miles east of Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The name is thought to be a corruption of Moss hall or Moss haw but its spelling was formalised in 1812 to mark Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. A stream called the Volga Burn flows through the village. Locally the land and forest around Cowans Law to the north west is referred to as Little Russia. The hamlet also shares the same latitude, 55° North, as the Russian city. In the Spring of 1884 a Mr. Rankin was found murdered in a gruesome fashion at his lonely cottage near Moscow. He was said to be well-to-do, however although no clues were found, theft was considered to be the motive; the guilty party was never brought to book. Mr. McNabb, a retired police officer, related that in his opinion the murder was carried out by a somnambulist who was therefore unaware of the deed. He had never ventured this opinion officially for fear of being laughed out of the force.



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Old Photograph Trinafour Post Office Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Trinafour Post Office in Blair Atholl by Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. The Atholl Country Life Museum is divided into three main rooms, and has been extended to include a wooden post office building relocated from Trinafour, a small settlement in a remote location at the head of Glen Errochty, nine miles to the east of Blair Atholl.



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Old Photograph Hotel Shieldenish Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old photograph of the hotel in Shieldenish on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Shieldinish is a small settlement which lies close to the head of Loch Erisort, opposite Balallan. It was cleared and then later resettled in 1886 with most of the tenants coming from Balallan. From Old Norse ' sild ' herring and ' nis ' point; the point is the prominent peninsula.



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Old Photograph Broch Isle of Tiree Scotland

Old photograph of a Broch at Vaul on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. The distribution of brochs is centred on northern Scotland. Caithness, Sutherland and the Northern Isles have the densest concentrations, but there are a great many examples in the west of Scotland and the Hebrides. Although mainly concentrated in the northern Highlands and the Islands, a few examples occur in the Borders and on the west coast of Dumfries and Galloway; and near Stirling.



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Old Photograph Water Of Gregg Barr Ayrshire Scotland

Old photograph of the Water Of Gregg in Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland. Barr is a picturesque village in the South West of Ayrshire, located approximately 8 miles from the town of Girvan. It is believed to have been established in the 17th century and has not grown much since that time. The village is situated in the Stinchar Valley where the River Stinchar meets the Water of Gregg. The meeting point of these two watercourses is known locally as The Pot. Local residents and visitors often picnic on the banks of the Stinchar.



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Old Photograph Kelburn Hotel Fairlie Scotland

Old photograph of the Kelburn Hotel in Fairlie on the eastern shore of the Firth of Clyde, in North Ayrshire, Scotland. King David I of Scotland appointed Sir Richard de Morville, a Norman, to hold land in Scotland. Thus he became High Constable of Scotland and Lord of Cunninghame, Largs and Lauderdale. This piece of land was later sub divided among Richard's relatives and friends, and, in the 13th century, the land of Fairlie was held by the Ross family of Tarbert, the land to the North was held by the Boyle family and to the South by the Sempill family. According to ancient records it would appear that Fairlie developed as a fishing village, as it had a good, sheltered anchorage that was fully used in the 16th century. Weaving also began to help the prosperity of the village as the demand for Paisley shawls increased. It was in the late 18th century that John Fife came from Kilbirnie to set up business as a cartwright in Fairlie. His son William (born in 1785) founded Fife Yachts brought to international fame by William's grandson, also called William. Fife Yachts were built in Fairlie until well into the 20th century.



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Old Photograph Post Office Guardbridge Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office and houses in Guardbridge, Fife, Scotland. In 1873, William Haig and two of his sons formed the Guardbridge Paper Company to find a more profitable use for their Seggie whisky distillery which had been established there since 1810. The mill went into production in 1874. As the mill developed the village grew around it, with new housing and roads to attract and accommodate workers. Before the First World War the labour force reached over 400, reaching a peak of 620 in the late 1950s. The paper mill was previously the main local industry and was operated by Curtis Fine Papers. On July 24, 2008, the mill went into receivership and 180 workers were made redundant. Many locals were employed elsewhere in Fife, Dundee, Edinburgh or even further afield. The building which played host to the mill is now Eden Brewery.





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