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Showing posts with label Tour Scotland Kilmany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tour Scotland Kilmany. Show all posts
Tour Scotland photograph of the John Lumsden gravestone in the churchyard cemetery in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland. This gravestone tells the story of Kilmany Post Office. John Lumsden was the village grocer and when rural post offices were established in the 1850, he became the first postmaster as well. His daughter and son-in law took over after his death. Generations of the family continued to run the cottage post office until it closed in 1983.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the David Cunningham gravestone in the Churchyard in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland. David lost his life during the Tay Railway Bridge Disaster of 1879. He was just 20 years old. On 28 December, 1879, the 13 raised spans at the centre of the Tay Bridge, the "high girders", fell, taking with them 160 yards of the bridge, and a railway train with 75 men, women and children on board. This tragically ended the dream of Thomas Bouch, recently knighted for his work on the bridge, and to some extent the unparalleled reputation of British engineering in works of this kind.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Anstruther Gray, Celtic Cross gravestone in the Churchyard in Kilmanay, Fife, Scotland. A number of the Anstruthe-Gray family are buried here, including, Lieut-Colonel William Anstruther-Gray FSA JP DL, born 6th September 1859, died 17th April 1938. He was a Scottish soldier and politician. The son of Colonel John Anstruther-Thomson of Charleton, Colinsburgh, Fife, and Maria Hamilton Gray of Carntyne, Glasgow, he was educated at Eton. He adopted name of Gray on succeeding to the Carntyne estate in 1904. He joined the Militia's Fife Artillery as a Sub-Lieutenant on 16th December 1876. He served for four years until he joined the 13th Hussars in 1880, and served in India and Afghanistan in 1880 to 1881 before transferring to the Royal Horse Guards in 1885. He was Aide-de-Camp to the Earl of Kintore, Governor of South Australia, from 1889 to 1891. He served in South Africa from 1901 to 1902 where he was commandant of the district of Knysna in 1901, and Inspector of Concentration Camps in Transvaal in 1902. He later commanded 3rd Line Group, Scottish Horse during World War I. He was unsuccessful Unionist candidate for St Andrews Burghs in 1903, and represented that constituency from 1906-1910 and from 1910-1918. He married Clayre Tennant CBE JP, daughter of Andrew Tennant, Essenside, Glenelg, South Australia. They had one son, William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, and one daughter.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Ghouls Den by Kilmany, Fife, Scotland. Ghouls Den is a ravine that lies a little to the north west of Kilmany. If you have the courage to venture here at the witching hour you are apt to see " white ladies " and other shades of the departed, who found Kilmany so beautiful they haunt it yet.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Jim Clark Memorial in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland. A life size statue of Jim Clark in racing overalls stands by the bridge over a small stream in the village of his birth, Kilmany. Jim Clark. Grand Prix Legend. Jim Clark was one of the greatest world champions that motor racing has ever seen. Born in Scotland, he won the world championship in 1963 and 1965 and the Indianapolis 500 in the same year and at the time of his death had won more Grand Prix races and more pole positions than any other driver. His drive in the 1967 Italian Grand Prix at Monza is regarded as one of the greatest drives ever. Driving only for the Lotus team in Formula 1 Clark had a particularly close relationship with its founder and owner, Colin Chapman until his death at the Hockenheimring in 1968.
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