Old Photograph Skerinish Scotland

Old photograph of Skerinish, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. On the coast near Skerinish Quay are the remains of a small promontory dun. The dun lies on the top of a small rocky stack. An earth bank cuts off access from the landward side and there are traces of walling around the remainder of the platform. A possible rock cut entrance leads down to the shore on the North West side. Dun is a generic term for an ancient or medieval fort. It is mainly used in the British Isles to describe a kind of hill fort and also a kind of Atlantic roundhouse. The term comes from Irish dún or Scottish Gaelic dùn, meaning, fort, and is cognate with Old Welsh din, whence Welsh dinas, meaning, city, comes.



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Old Photograph Rosebank Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Rosebank village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. With a population of around 200, Rosebank is one of the least populated settlements in South Lanarkshire. The hamlet is situated on the banks of the River Clyde, and was constructed by Lord Newlands of Mauldslie Castle, which stood in the Mauldslie Woods area across the Clyde for estate workers.



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Tour Scotland April Video Sunset Fairground South Inch Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video of sunset behind the Fairground on visit to South Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Perth is a city in central Scotland, located on the banks of the River Tay. It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county of Perthshire.

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Tour Scotland April Video Drive Towards Sunset Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video shot this evening of part the drive South along Friarton Road towards sunset on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Dailly Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Dailly located eight miles South of Maybole in South Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish village was laid out in the 1760s as a coal-mining village. In 1849 a fire broke out in Dalquharran Colliery, one of the nearby mines, and continued to burn for 50 years. Hew Ainslie was born in the parish of Dailly on 5 April 1792, to George Ainslie and a mother whose name is unknown. After a fair education, he became a clerk in Glasgow, a landscape gardener in his native district, and a clerk in the Register House, Edinburgh. In 1822, being then ten years married to his cousin, Ainslie emigrated to America, where he continued to live with varied fortune for the rest of his days, paying a short visit to Scotland in 1864. Upon travelling to the New World, he was attracted to Robert Owen's social system in New Harmony, Indiana, but after a short trial he connected himself with a firm of brewers; his name is associated with the establishment of various breweries, mills, and factories in the Western States. He died in Louisville, 11 March 1878


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