Old Photograph Children Outside The School Blackness Scotland

Old photograph of children outside the school in Blackness Castle, a small village and harbour at Blackness Bay on the south shore of the Firth of Forth in West Lothian, Scotland. The village originally served as a port for nearby Linlithgow, which was a principal residence of the Scottish monarchs from as early as the 12th century. As a port, Blackness was later superseded by Bo'ness, and fell into decline from the 17th century. The small village is dominated by Blackness Castle, situated on a promontory overlooking the bay. The castle was both a residence and a prison before passing to Crown ownership in 1453.



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