Old Photograph Nessie Spotters Submarine Scotland

Old photograph of Nessie Spotters submarine at Loch Ness, Scotland. Loch Ness is the alleged home of the Loch Ness Monster, also known as Nessie, a cryptid, reputedly a large unknown animal. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next. Popular interest and belief in the animal's existence has varied since it was first brought to the world's attention in 1933.



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Old Photograph Nessie Spotters Van Scotland

Old photograph of Nessie Spotters van at Loch Ness, Scotland. Loch Ness is a large, deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately 23 miles south west of Inverness. Its surface is 52 ft above sea level. Loch Ness is best known for alleged sightings of the cryptozoological Loch Ness Monster, also known affectionately as " Nessie. "

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Old Photograph Port William Scotland

Old photograph of Port William, Wigtownshire, Scotland. The original settlement was known as Killantrae, meaning The Church on the Beach in Gaelic, and was probably founded not long after St Ninian arrival in nearby Whithorn towards the end of the 4th century. Killantrae was swept away following the intervention of developer and landlord Sir William Maxwell of Monreith. In the five years until 1776 he built an entirely new village, complete with a good harbour and was renamed Port William.



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Old Photograph Port Edgar Scotland

Old photograph of Port Edgar, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Bought by the Admiralty in 1916 as the site of a future Naval base, the pier at Port Edgar near South Queensferry had been regularly used by Royal Navy ships since the 1850s. Shortly after its purchase the wounded of the Battle of Jutland were landed at Port Edgar for the Royal Naval Hospital at Butlaw, South Queensferry. The dead of the battle were buried in the local cemetery at South Queensferry. In recent years, it has become a busy marina with a sailing school with 300 berths.



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Old Photographs Bathgate Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, shop, houses and people in Bathgate, West Lothian. Bathgate first enters the chronicles of history in a confirmation charter by King Malcolm IV of Scotland. In 1315, the daughter of King Robert The Bruce, Marjorie Bruce, married Walter Stewart, the 6th Lord High Steward of Scotland. The dowry to her husband included the lands and castle of Bathgate. Established around 1800, the Glenmavis Whisky Distillery in Bathgate was purchased in 1831 by one John McNab, who produced MacNab's Celebrated Glenmavis Dew from the site until the distillery's closure in 1910.



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