Old Photographs Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of Campbeltown, Scotland. Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself " the whisky capital of the world ". However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most distilleries going out of business, Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in 1748, near Campbeltown. He was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Duncan McNab McEachran was born on 27 October 1841 in Campbeltown. He was a Canadian veterinarian and academic. He was the son of David McEachran and Jean Blackney, McEachran graduated from the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 1861 and received his license to practice from Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In 1862, he emigrated to Canada West, settling in Woodstock. In 1863, he helped set up, along with primary founder Andrew Smith, the Upper Canada Veterinary School, later the Ontario Veterinary College. McEachran was a staff member but he considered the admission standards and academic requirements to be inadequate. He left after three years, moving to Montreal. In 1867, Smith and McEachran again joined forces to publish the first veterinary textbook in Canada for farmers, The Canadian horse and his diseases. He died on 13 October 1924.



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Old Photographs Davaar Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Davaar Lighthouse, Campbeltown, Scotland. In 1854, this Lighthouse was built on the north of Davaar island by the lighthouse engineers David and Thomas Stevenson.

Old photograph of Davaar Lighthouse, Campbeltown, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Pier Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of the pier at Campbeltown, Scotland.


Old photograph of the pier at Campbeltown, Scotland.

Old photograph of the pier at Campbeltown, Scotland.

Old photograph of the pier at Campbeltown, Scotland.

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Although lying further south than Berwick, remote Campbeltown and Machrihanish have long been thought of as part of the Highlands and have themselves the feel of Highland communities. For much of their history they relied on fishing as the mainstay of the local economy, supplemented by tourism that used to arrive on the Clyde pleasure steamers. These no longer visit and the fishing has been much reduced, but this new history, accompanied by over fifty period photographs, recalls the heyday of the area's prosperity from the late nineteenth century until the 1950s. In those days the old market cross still graced the Main Street and the locomotives of the Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway puffed, unfenced, through the streets. Longrow was still prone to floods, and the Wide Close, the net-drying poles at Dalintober, the barrels of herring waiting at the Old Quay for transportation to Glasgow and beyond, are just some of the fascinating sights also included. Old Campbeltown and Machrihanish.

Old Photograph The Mill Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of children by the old Mill in Campbeltown, Scotland.

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Old Photograph The Mill Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of the The Mill in Campbeltown, Scotland. Hugh Henry Brackenridge, born 1748, died June 25, 1816, was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Brackenridge was born in Kintyre, a village near Campbeltown. In 1753, when he was 5, his family emigrated to York County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland border, then a frontier. Duncan McNab McEachran, born 27 October 1841, died 13 October 1924, as a Canadian veterinarian and academic. Duncan was born in Campbeltown, the son of David McEachran and Jean Blackney, McEachran graduated from the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 1861 and received his license to practice from Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In 1862, he emigrated to Upper Canada setting in Woodstock. Gilbert McKechnie. born 1846, died December 21, 1930, was a Scottish born Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Grey South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1891 to 1894 as a Liberal member. He was born in Campbeltown, Argyleshire in 1845 and came to Canada West in 1855.



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Old Photograph Harbour Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of the harbour at Campbeltown, Scotland. A Scottish town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, located by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Originally known as Kinlochkilkerran; The head of the loch by the kirk of St. Kieran, and this form is still used in Gaelic. It was renamed in the 17th century and became an important centre for shipbuilding and Scotch whisky, and a busy fishing port.



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