Old Photograph Alva Scotland

Old photograph of houses, shops and people in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. A small town set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is one of a number of towns situated immediately to the south of the Ochil Hills, collectively referred to as the Hillfoots Villages or simply The Hillfoots.





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Old Photographs Shotts North Lanarkshire Scotland

Old photograph of Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Shotts is a small rural town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located almost halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Matthew Baillie was born in Shotts Manse on 27 October 1761 the son of Reverend James Baillie and Dorothea Hunter. His sister was the poet Joanna Baillie. He was a pupil of his uncle, the anatomist John Hunter and his father in law, Dr. Thomas Denman, an eminent obstetrician in London, England, at the turn of the nineteenth century, whose textbook on childbirth had been first published in 1788. Baillie was educated at the Old Grammar School of Hamilton, renamed the Hamilton Academy in 1848, the University of Glasgow, and obtained his MD from the University of Oxford in 1789, having been named Snell Exhibitioner in 1779. On his death in 1783 his uncle William Hunter bequeathed him £5,000, his house in Great Windmill Street, plus the adjacent medical school and museum. Baillie taught at the school from 1783 to 1803. He then taught anatomy and was appointed Physician at St George's Hospital in 1789, but gave up both posts to establish his own medical practice in Grosvenor Square, becoming Physician in Ordinary to King George III. He became Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1790, specialising in morbid anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1790 and delivered their Croonian Lecture in 1791, on the subject of muscles. Baillie died of tuberculosis in 1823 in Duntisbourne at the age of 61 and was buried in Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire. He had married Sophia Denman, the sister of Thomas Denman.



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Tour Scotland Video River Tay Friarton Perth Perthshire February 9th

Tour Scotland video shot this afternoon of Friarton Bridge and River Tay just outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Overcast and becoming misty this afternoon in Perthshire.

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Tour Scotland Video Unloading Cargo Ship Harbour Perth Perthshire February 9th

Tour Scotland video shot today of a cargo ship being unloaded at the harbour in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The cargo ship Fri Tide in the harbour this afternoon in Perth.

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Old Photographs Lanark Scotland

Old photograph of Lanark, Scotland. Lanark was the county town of the former county of Lanarkshire, though for many years Hamilton was the county town, before the formation of Strathclyde. Lanark railway station and coach station has frequent services to Glasgow. Lanark has served as an important market town since medieval times, and King David I made it a Royal Burgh in 1140, giving it certain mercantile privileges relating to government and taxation. King David I realised that greater prosperity could result from encouraging trade. He decided to create a chain of new towns across Scotland. These would be centres of Norman civilisation in a largely Celtic country, and would be established in such a way as to encourage the development of trade within their area. These new towns were to be known as Burghs.



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