Old Photograph Durie Street Leven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Durie Street, Leven, Fife, Scotland. Alexander Robert Horne, born 1881, died 1953, was a Scottish engineer and author. He was born in Leven, Fife in 1881. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. He was apprenticed as an engineer to James Milne & Sons Ltd of Milton House Works in the Canongate in Edinburgh around 1896. He then went to the University of London in England to formally train as an engineer. In 1910 he obtained a post as Professor of Engineering at Robert Gordons College in Aberdeen, aged only 29. He lived at 374 Great Western Road in Aberdeen. In 1920 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Richard Stanfield, George Adam Smith and John Taylor Ewen. In 1929 he moved to Heriot Watt University as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and stayed there until retiral in 1945. He died in Edinburgh on 17 May 1953.



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Old Photograph Scurdyness Montrose Scotland

Old photograph of Scurdyness, Montrose, Scotland. Scurdyness lighthouse guards and defines the entrance to Montrose harbour from a position near the tip of the promontory of the same name, which projects markedly into the North Sea on the south side of the mouth of the combined rivers North and South Esk. It was built by engineers David and Thomas Stevenson in 1870.

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Old Photographs Broughty Ferry and Broughty Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland.


Old photograph of Broughty Castle, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland. Broughty Castle sits imposingly at the mouth of the River Tay. Built in 1496 on a rocky promontory, it has faced many sieges and battles.

Old photograph of Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Killin Scotland

Old photograph of the Main Street, Killin, Scotland.

Old photograph of Killin, Scotland.

Old photograph of Killin, Scotland.

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Street view of the Main Street, Killin, Scotland.

For long the area of influence for the Campbells of Breadalbane, the area around Loch Tay was subject to their improvements to the land and also their clearance of many people from the area in the nineteenth century. However, the family were largely responsible for the arrival of the railway and the development of many local industries, as well as the provision of housing, churches, hostelries and even the passenger ships that once steamed around the loch. Among the bygone sights featured in this comprehensive history, are the steamships Queen of the Lake and Lady of the Lake, the Killin Hotel before its fire in the 1930s, and Taymouth Castle in its magnificent heyday. Other communities featured include Lawers, Acharn, Ardeonaig, Fearnan, Ardtalnaig, Glen Lochay and Glen Dochart. Old Killin, Kenmore and Loch Tay (Stenlake).

Old Photograph Gilmerton Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Gilmerton, Perthshire, Scotland.

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