Old Photograph Mainsriddle Scotland

Old photograph of Mainsriddle located eight miles South East of Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Mid Yell Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of Mid Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland. This is the largest village on the island of Yell, located at the head of Mid Yell Voe on the B9081 road about a mile from its junction with the A968 road. Like all good Northern islands, Yell has its trolls, known in the Northern Isles as " trows " or " trowes ". The Trow of Windhouse was about as recently as the 1880s, when a shipwrecked sailor claimed he had been attacked by the mythical monster. However, the sailor was courageous enough to fight the creature, and saw it off with an axe. It is said that where he killed the trow, the grass turned a light green. This was not the only trow by any means, and there is another story of a Yell woman coming upon a family of trowes, who later woke up to find one in the house, asking who he was, he said " I am Trippa's son ". The woman said a prayer, and the trowe disappeared.



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Old Photographs Carradale Scotland

Old photograph of Carradale located fourteen miles from Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. In the 17th and 18th centuries there were small communities of crofters and fishermen working in and around Carradale. The introduction of steam ships transformed Kintyre and from the 1830s until the Second World War daily steamers went from Campbeltown to Glasgow, calling at Carradale. With the herring fishing industry thriving, Carradale's first pier was built in 1858, developing and encouraging the holiday trade.



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Old Photograph Fishermen Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen on the Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Robert Reid Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Robert Reid gravestone on ancestry visit to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Robert was born in 1774, and died in 1856, he was King's architect and surveyor in Scotland. Reid was responsible for many public works, primarily in Edinburgh, including the Law Courts in Parliament Square. He also worked on the detailed layout of Robert Adam's Charlotte Square after that architect's death and built a house there for himself. In the square he completed the design for St. George's Church, which is now West Register House, which had again been started by Adam. Reid planned the northern part of Edinburgh's New Town in 1802 and extended Adam's Register House in 1834.

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