Old Photograph Abbey Strand Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Abbey Strand, leading to Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland. Abbey Strand lies in the triangular space at the foot of the Canongate. Here the High Street led both to the palace and to the Watergate, the principal entry to the city from the East. The building lay in the precinct of Holyrood and its sanctuary but outside the main ceremonial gate of the abbey.



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Old Photograph West End Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram, shops and the people at the West End, Paisley, Scotland. The West End is on the road to Johnstone on the West, and Glasgow on the East, and stands at the head of Castle Street, the birthplace of the poet Tannahill. Castle Street leads to Castlehead, and to Canal Street Castlehead Church, in the burial ground in lie the remains of Tannahill. The Scottish poet Robert Tannahill was born at Castle Street in Paisley on 3 June 1774, the fourth son in a family of seven. His mother was Janet Pollock from Boghall Farm near Beith and his father was James Tannahill from Kilmarnock. He died on May 17, 1810, after burning all his manuscripts and drowning himself in a culverted stream under the Paisley Canal, where he was found because he had left his jacket at the mouth of the tunnel.



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Old Photograph Highland Crofters Scotland

Old photograph of Highland Crofters sitting outside a thatched cottage in Scotland. A croft is a small piece of arable land that can be used for growing crops. In the 18th century Highlands, it was held by an individual tenant, and it combined a few acres of arable land, the croft, plus access to pasture land for communal grazing of livestock, called the outfield land.



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Old Photograph Crieff Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of shops, buildings and people in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. For a number of centuries Highlanders came South to Crieff to sell their black cattle whose meat and hides were avidly sought by the growing urban populations in Lowland Scotland and the north of England. The town acted as a gathering point or tryst for the Michaelmas cattle sale held each year and the surrounding fields and hillsides were black with the tens of thousands of cattle, some from as far away as Caithness and the Outer Hebrides.



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Old Photograph Largs Ayrshire Scotland

Old photograph of people walking in Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland. Largs is a popular seaside resort with a pier, the town markets itself on its historic links with the Vikings and an annual festival is held each year in early September. In 1263 it was the site of the Battle of Largs between the Norwegian and the Scottish armies.



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