Old Photograph Links Hotel Brora Scotland

Old photograph of the Links Hotel in Brora,Sutherland, Scotland. This village is the Highlands. It had at one time a coal pit, boat building, fishing, salt pans, fish curing, lemonade factory, the new Clynelish Distillery, as well as the old Clynelish distillery which is now called the Brora Whisky distillery, wool mill, bricks and a stone quarry. Brora was the first place in the north of Scotland to have electricity thanks to its wool industry. The village is situated where the A9 road and the Far North Line bridge the River Brora. The village is served by a railway station. To the south east of the village is the former Brora Y Station which operated as a Government listening station between 1940 and 1986. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph New Bridge Bridge Of Allan Scotland

Old photograph of the new bridge over the Allan Water in Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. The Jacobites were in Bridge of Allan in 1745, where three hundred highlanders set up a roadblock on the original old bridge and charged a toll for its passage. Major Alexander Henderson, the Laird of Westerton, drew up plans of how he wanted the village to be laid out in 1850, envisaging spacious streets with pleasure grounds in the woods. It was at this time that many handsome stone villas were built on wide thoroughfares, with practically every second house becoming a lodging house as Bridge of Allan became a renowned spa town, especially during the boom years of hydropathic establishments. Among the visitors was Robert Louis Stevenson who visited annually during his youth. The Museum Hall was built by the trustees of John Macfarlane in 1887, originally as the Macfarlane Museum and Art Gallery. In its use as a concert venue it once played host to the Beatles.



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Old Photograph Newton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Newton or The Newton, a small village near South Queensferry, Scotland. Newton lies on the A904 trunk road 2.6 miles west of South Queensferry and the Forth Road Bridge and 6 miles East of Linlithgow. All road traffic travelling west from the Forth Road Bridge currently has to pass through the village in order to gain access to the M9 Motorway although this was set to change under proposals to upgrade M9 Junction 1a as part of the Forth Replacement Crossing scheme. The village's location serves it well as a commuter village for those who travel daily to Edinburgh and Fife. It currently hosts a petrol service station, a small shop, a pub and a post office.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boat Harbour Wick Scotland

Old photograph of a fishing boat entering the harbour in Wick, Caithness. Scotland. Men and women came from across the Highlands and from the Western Isles and Outer Hebrides to crew the fishing boats and to work in the herring curing yards here. The women worked in crews of three, two gutters and one packer. The cured herring were shipped in barrels mainly to the ports of Europe and the Baltic countries.



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Old Photograph Moor of Rannoch Hotel Scotland

Old photograph of the Moor of Rannoch Hotel by railway station on the West Highland Line which serves the area of Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Although the railway links the station with Glasgow and Fort William on the West Highland Line, the station area is otherwise more closely linked, by road, with central Highland towns and villages on or near the A9 road. The B846 road meets the A9 between Pitlochry and Blair Atholl, about 34 miles east of the station. Rannoch station opened to passengers on the 7th of August 1894.


Old video of the railway station on the West Highland Line which serves the area of Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland.

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