Old Photographs Ballantrae Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland. Ballantrae is a village in Carrick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is the fictional setting of the novel The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Old photograph of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Old South Ayrshire Villages. Girvan was not the only attraction in South Ayrshire for holidaymakers during the early 1900s, many villages of this still remote region also received a large share of visitors. Indeed, one photograph in this collection of fifty-two shows an early motor car that had come all the way from Dundee, a long way in those days! The villages included in this collection are Ballantrae, Barr, Barrhill, Colmonell, Crosshill, Dalrymple, Dunure, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Lendalfoot, Maidens, Minishant, Pinmore, Pinwherry, Straiton and Turnberry. The views are accompanied by an extensive history which not only provides the background story of each community, but also gives us a taste of life as it was a century ago when people still relied on their potato crops, fishing and weaving for a living, when the highlight of the day was the arrival of the stagecoaches or later, the charabancs of the Coaching Tour from Girvan, and when Daljarrock still had a post office. Old South Ayrshire Villages.

Old Photograph Of Ballantrae Scotland

An old photograph of houses, cottages and people in Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland. The Reverend Alexander Peden, born 1626, died 26 January 1686, also known as " Prophet Peden ", was one of the leading figures in the Covenanter movement in Scotland. In June 1673, while holding a conventicle at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Ayrshire, he was captured by Major William Cockburn, and condemned by the Privy Council to four years and three months imprisonment on the Bass Rock and a further fifteen months in the Edinburgh Tolbooth. In December 1678 he, along with 60 others, was sentenced to banishment to the American plantations. They were transported by ship to London, where they were to be transferred to an American ship. The American captain, however, on hearing the reason for their banishment, released them. Peden made his way north again and divided the remaining years of his life between his own country and the north of Ireland. His last days were spent in a cave on the River Lugar in the parish of Sorn, near his birthplace and his brother's farm in Auchinleck, and there he died in 1686, worn out by hardship and privation.



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