Old Photograph Casting Peats Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter Casting Peats on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Peat casting, or cutting, was usually carried out in the month of May with a spade called a Tushkar. Crofting, the farming of small plots of land on a legally restricted tenancy basis, is still practised and is viewed as a key Shetland tradition as well as an important source of income. Fishing remains central to the islands' economy today. Mackerel makes up more than half of the catch in Shetland by weight and value, and there are significant landings of haddock, cod, herring, whiting, monkfish and shellfish.



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Old Photograph Mull Of Galloway Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, Gallowy, Scotland. Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, with its 26 metre high tower, was built from a design by Robert Stevenson, between 1828 and 1830. Mull means rounded hill or mountain. Robert Stevenson, born in Glasgow on 8 June 1772, died 12 July 1850, was a Scottish civil engineer and famed designer and builder of lighthouses.

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Old Photographs Lighthouse Southerness Solway Firth Scotland

Old photograph of the Lighthouse at Southerness, Solway Firth, Scotland. This lighthouse, the second oldest in Scotland, was originally built in 1748 by the Dumfries Town Council, then rebuilt in the 1790s and in 1812 by Robert Stevenson. It has been inactive since 1933. Three of Stevenson’s sons became engineers: David, Alan, and Thomas. Robert's other children included Joseph, who immigrated to Victoria, Australia in 1832, and Jane, who assisted in writing and illustrating an account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse construction. Robert Louis Stevenson was his grandson, via Thomas, and Katharine de Mattos was his granddaughter.



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Old Photographs Bridge Of Earn Scotland

Old photograph of Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland. This village located just South of Perth, is often referred to simply as The Brig, Scots for bridge, by its inhabitants.



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Old Photograph Luing Firth Of Lorn Scotland

Old photograph of Luing, Firth of Lorn, fifteen miles South of Oban, Scotland. The graveyard at the ruined church of Kilchattan on Luing documents the lives of past islanders, with quarriers, sailors and crofters side by side. Gravestones of note include those of Covenanter Alexander Campbell.



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