Old Photographs New Street Dalry Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and people on New Street, Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland.





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Old Photographs Ballachulish Scotland

Old photograph of West Laroch, Ballachulish, Lochaber, Scotland. This was an old quarry village. The name Ballachulish, from Scottish Gaelic, Baile a' Chaolais, means the Village by the Narrows. The narrows in question is Caolas Mhic Phàdraig, Peter or Patrick's son's narrows, at the mouth of Loch Leven. As there was no road to the head of Loch Leven until 1927, the Ballachulish Ferry, established in 1733, and those at Invercoe, Callert and Caolas na Con were essential. The Ballachulish ferry closed in December 1975 when the Ballachulish Bridge finally opened. In 1903, a branch of the, now closed, Callander and Oban Railway, from Connel Ferry, was opened to Ballachulish. Slate from local quarries, established just two years after the infamous Glencoe Massacre of 1692, was used to provide the roofing slate for much of Edinburgh and Glasgow's skyline in the succeeding centuries. 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 Photographs Corrie Arran Scotland

Old photograph of Corrie, Island of Arran, Scotland. The village used to be a regular stop for steamers circumnavigating the island, passengers embarking by way of a rowing boat from the " ferry rock ".

Old photograph of Corrie, Island of Arran, Scotland.

Old photograph of Corrie, Island of Arran, Scotland.

Old photograph of Corrie, Island of Arran, Scotland.


Old photograph of Corrie, Island of Arran, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Port Bannatyne Scotland

Old photograph of Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The village started in 1801 with the building of a small harbour on Kames Bay. Lord Bannatyne of Kames Castle, at the head of the bay, planned the village in an attempt to rival Rothesay. Initially known as Kamesburgh, by the mid 19th century, steamers were calling there regularly. In 1860 the Marquess of Bute purchased this part of the island and renamed the village Port Bannatyne in honour of the long historical association of the Bannatyne family with the area. Boat building became an important local industry. In the Second World War midget submarines exercised in the bay and nearby Loch Striven. The luxury Kyles Hydro Hotel, overlooking the Port, was requisitioned by the Admiralty to serve as the HQ for midget submarine, x-craft, operations. In particular, it was from here that the top secret and audacious attack on the Tirpitz was masterminded.





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Old Photographs Lagg Jura Scotland

Old photograph of a fisherman by the pier at the harbour in the hamlet of Lagg, Isle of Jura, Scotland. The harbour is situated on the West shore of Rubh' a' Chamais, the promontory that encloses the East side of Lagg Bay, north, north east of Craighouse. In the early 19th century the 4 mile sea crossing from Lagg to Keills in Knapdale was the normal route for cattle, not only from Jura itself, but for those landed from Colonsay at Loch Tarbert and for over 2,500 animals annually from Islay, which were driven over a hill road from Feolin on the Sound of Islay.



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