Old Photographs Isleornsay Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Isleornsay on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Emigration from the Highlands and Islands was endemic in the 19th century and the company that ran the Isleornsay store, MacDonald and Elder, acted as emigration agents from the early 1800s. In 1822 they advertised that they were able to " to fit out transports for the conveyance of passengers from Inverness and the West Coast of Scotland to the east coast of Canada. " In the 1830s a programme of assisted passages to Australia from the Sleat peninsula was organised. The William Nicol sailed to Sydney from Isleornsay in July 1837 with 322 passengers including 70 families from Sleat. At the time it was reported that so many local people wished to emigrate that the ship could not accommodate all those who wanted to embark.



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Old Photograph Maxwelltown Observatory Scotland

Old photograph of Maxwelltown Observatory, Dumfries, Scotland. The four storey tower was originally built in 1798 as a windmill on Corbelly Hill, the highest point in Maxwelltown. In 1834, the derelict windmill was purchased by the newly formed Dumfries and Maxwelltown Astronomical Society, primarily due to the efforts of local merchant Robert Thomson. The observatory opened to paying members in August 1836. Maxwelltown was a hamlet known as Bridgend up until 1810, in which year it was erected into a burgh of barony under its present name. Maxwelltown comprises several suburbs, including Summerhill, Troqueer, Janefield, Lochside, Lincluden, Sandside, and Summerville.



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Old Photograph Caddonfoot Church Scotland

Old photograph of Caddonfoot Church near Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. This Scottish parish church was built in 1861, primarily in whinstone, but with red sandstone window dressings. It has a slate roof. It is built on the shoulder of a hill.



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Old Photograph Tomnahurich Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Tomnahurich Bridge, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland. The building which is probably the bridge keeper's cottage, is shown on the South East side of Tomnahurich Bridge. The Tomnahurich Swing Bridge carries the main A82 road across the Caledonian Canal on the outskirts of Inverness. Both the road and the canal run along the Great Glen, linking Inverness with Loch Ness and Fort William.



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Tour Scotland Video Drive To Glen Sherup Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of part of the drive to visit Glen Sherup on in the Ochil Hills of Perthshire, Scotland. The Ochil Hills is a range of hills in Scotland north of the Forth valley bordered by the towns of Stirling, Alloa, Kinross, Auchterarder and Perth. The only major roads crossing the hills pass through Glen Devon, Glen Eagles and Glenfarg, the latter now largely replaced except for local traffic by the M90 Edinburgh to Perth motorway cutting through the eastern foothills. The hills are part of a Devonian lava extrusion whose appearance today is largely due to the Ochil Fault which results in the southern face of the hills forming an escarpment.

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