Old Photographs Selkirk Scotland

Old photograph of High Street, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Selkirk owed its expansion in the mid nineteenth century to its mills and the workforce they required, but this period of industrial fervour lasted only a century. Selkirk men fought with William Wallace at Stirling Brig and Falkirk, and also with Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn. Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Marquess of Montrose and the Outlaw Murray all had connections with the town. Common Riding is an annual event celebrated in Scottish Border towns as well as in other locations. Common Riding is meant to commemorate the times of the past when local men risked their lives in order to protect their town and people. The Selkirk Common Riding is a celebration of the history and traditions of the Royal and Ancient Burgh. Held on the second Friday after the first Monday in June, the ceremony is one of the oldest in the area, with 300 to 400 riders, Selkirk boasts one of the largest cavalcades of horses and riders in Europe. Selkirk still owns common land to the north and south of the town, but only the northern boundary of Linglie is ridden on the day. Selkirk Common Riding commemorates how, after the disastrous Battle of Flodden in 1513, from the eighty men that left the town, only one, Fletcher - returned bearing a captured English flag. Legend has it that he cast the flag about his head to indicate that all the other men of Selkirk had been cut down. At the climax of the day the Royal Burgh Standard Bearer and Crafts and Associations Standard Bearers cast their colours in Selkirk's ancient Market Place. 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 Garscube Road Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Garscube Road, Glasgow, Scotland. Garscube Road was named for an estate by the Kelvin, in the parish of New Kilpatrick, and about four miles from Glasgow.

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Old Photograph Braefoot Methil Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Braefoot, Methil, Fife, Scotland. Methil is an eastern coastal town in Scotland. It was part of the former Burgh of Buckhaven and Methil. It lies within a continuous urban area described as Levenmouth. It lies geographically between Largo bay to the east and Wemyss Bay to the West.



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Old Photograph Kinnesswood Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Kinnesswood, Perthshire, Scotland. The village of Kinnesswood together with Scotlandwell, Easter Balgedie, Wester Balgedie and Glenlomond form the Parish of Portmoak. The villages all nestle along the foot of the Bishop Hill, part of the Lomond Hills. The name, Portmoak, or the original " Pitmoag " takes the name from the area dedicated to St. Moak in the first Millennium AD. From the 16th Century until 1926 the village was an important centre for the manufacture of Parchment and Vellum.



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Street View Portmahomack Scotland

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Street view of Portmahomack, Easter Ross, Scotland.

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A trail of chance finds on the outskirts of Portmahomack during the 19th and 20th centuries culminated in 1996 in the first exposure of a Pictish settlement in northern Scotland. The area soon became the subject of one of the largest research excavations ever to have taken place on the Scottish mainland. Discover the world of the Picts with this unique account of the discovery and excavation of an early monastery. Dating from the 6th to the 9th century AD, Portmahomack is one of the earliest Christian sites to be revealed in Britain and the first in the land of the Picts. The monastery was destroyed between 780 and 830 AD and was then lost to history before being unearthed by Martin Carver and his colleagues. In this highly illustrated book, Martin Carver describes the discovery of the site and the design and execution of the research programme, then traces the events that occurred from the mid-6th century to the 11th century when the parish church was founded on the former monastic site. The book ends with the subsequent history of the church of St Colman and a study of the Tarbat peninsula.The author's conclusions advance the theory that this was a prehistoric place before the monks arrived, and that they marked out the boundaries of their estate in the late 8th century with the lives of local saints carved on some of the greatest stone sculptures of the age. Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts.

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