Tour Scotland Photograph James Simpson Gravestone Trinity Gask Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel photography of the James Simpson gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the cemetery in Gask, Perthshire, Scotland. Forester on Trinity Gask Estate for 40 years. Who died on the 16th of May 1889, aged 72.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Thomas Cant Gravestone Trinity Gask Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel photography of the Thomas Cant gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the cemetery in Gask, Perthshire, Scotland. Thomas Cant, late farmer Cow Gask, who died the on the 13th of February, 1826, aged 74.



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Old Photograph High Street Penicuik Scotland

Old photograph of the High Street, Penicuik, Scotland. Penicuik is situated on the west bank of the River North Esk. It lies on the A701 road midway between Edinburgh and Peebles, east of the Pentland Hills. Cargill Gilston Knott, was born on 30 June 1856 in Penicuik. He was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was a pioneer in seismological research. He spent his early career in Japan. He later became a Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and President of the Scottish Meteorological Society. He died at his home at 42 Upper Gray Street, Newington, Edinburgh, on 26 October 1922.



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Old Photograph Crossgates Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram, shops, houses and people in Crossgates, Fife, Scotland. A small village about two miles east of Dunfermline and a similar distance south west of Cowdenbeath. Crossgates has a long history of mining, of both deep and opencast varieties.



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Old Photograph Lochee Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of shops, buildings and people in Lochee, Dundee, Scotland. An area of Dundee, Scotland. Until the 19th century, it was a separate town which developed in the 18th century with handloom weaving and in the 19th century as a centre of textile industries, such as spinning, bleaching, dyeing and linen manufacture. By the 20th century, the area had been surrounded by the growing city of Dundee. The name Lochee means eye of the loch, referring to the town's location on the banks of Loch Balgay which was drained in the 16th century for farmland.



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