Old Photograph Cinema Dunfermline Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Cinema in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Lighthouse Bass Rock Scotland

Old photograph of the lighthouse on the Bass Rock, Scotland. The rock is currently uninhabited, but historically has been settled by an early Christian hermit, and later was the site of an important castle, which was, after the Commonwealth, used as a prison. The island was in the ownership of the Lauder family for almost six centuries, and now belongs to Sir Hew Fleetwood Hamilton-Dalrymple. A lighthouse was constructed on the rock in 1902, and the remains of a chapel are located there. The Bass Rock features in numerous works of fiction, including Robert Stevenson's Catriona. The island is located in the outer part of the Firth of Forth, 3 miles north east of North Berwick.

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Old Photograph King's Stables Culloden Scotland

Old photograph of King's Stables at the Battlefield of Culloden near Inverness, Scotland. A granite stone inscribed " Kings Stables. Station of English Cavalry after the Battle of Culloden. " King's Stable Cottage was so named following the stabling of Hanoverian horse nearby in the aftermath of the battle. The original cottage was likely to have been built before the 1746 battle, perhaps having been built in the early part of the 18th century. The cottage may also be that described in 1748: '12 wounded men [Jacobites] were carried out of this house and shot in a hollow...'
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Old Photographs Forres Scotland

Old photograph of the High Street, Forres, Moray, Scotland. On 23 June 1496 King James IV of Scotland issued a Royal Charter laying down the rights and privileges that the town's people are believed to have held by an earlier charter since the reign of King David I some 300 years earlier. Shakespeare's play Macbeth locates Duncan's castle in Forres, and the Three Witches meet on a heath near the town in the third scene of the drama. 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 Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of Campbeltown, Scotland. Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself " the whisky capital of the world ". However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most distilleries going out of business, Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in 1748, near Campbeltown. He was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Duncan McNab McEachran was born on 27 October 1841 in Campbeltown. He was a Canadian veterinarian and academic. He was the son of David McEachran and Jean Blackney, McEachran graduated from the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 1861 and received his license to practice from Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In 1862, he emigrated to Canada West, settling in Woodstock. In 1863, he helped set up, along with primary founder Andrew Smith, the Upper Canada Veterinary School, later the Ontario Veterinary College. McEachran was a staff member but he considered the admission standards and academic requirements to be inadequate. He left after three years, moving to Montreal. In 1867, Smith and McEachran again joined forces to publish the first veterinary textbook in Canada for farmers, The Canadian horse and his diseases. He died on 13 October 1924.



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