Old Photograph Mouswald Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Mouswald in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Mouswald is a parish and village 7 miles South East of Dumfries, and 10 miles West by North of Annan. It is situated in that district formerly called the Stewartry of Annandale, midway between the rivers Nith and Annan, and was anciently covered with wood, as its name implies, " The Wood near the Moss. " It is bounded by the parishes of Lochmaben, Dalton, Rothwell, and Torthorwald, and contains the village of its own name, and the hamlets of Old Brocklehurst and Cleughbrae. The parish was traversed by the old Glasgow and South Western railway, and by the coach roads from Dumfries to Annan and Ruthwell. The parish is in the presbytery of Lochmaben and synod of Dumfries.



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Old Photograph Lighthouse Chanonry Point Scotland

Old photograph of the lighthouse at Chanonry Point South of Rosemarkie, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was designed by Alan Stevenson and was first lit on the 15th of May 1846. Alan, born in 1807 in Edinburgh, died 1865 in Portobello, Edinburgh, was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. Among his notable works is the Skerryvore Lighthouse. A member of the famous Stevenson family of engineers, eldest son of Robert Stevenson, and brother of David and Thomas Stevenson, between 1843 and 1853 he built thirteen lighthouses in and around Scotland. The writer Robert Louis Stevenson was the son of Thomas and thus the nephew of Alan Stevenson.



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Tour Scotland Video St Cuthbert's Kirk And Graveyard Dalmeny

Tour Scotland video of St Cuthbert's Kirk and graveyard on visit to Dalmeny by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. The present church building is recognised as the finest Romanesque parish church still in use in Scotland, and one of the most complete in the United Kingdom, lacking only its original western tower which was rebuilt in a sympathetic style in the early 20th century.

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Old Photograph Rosyth Castle Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Castle Rosyth, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish tower house originally stood on a small island in the Firth of Forth accessible only at low tide, and dates from around 1450, built as a secure residence by Sir David Stewart, who had been granted the Barony of Rosyth in 1428. The tower house was enlarged and extended in the 16th and early 17th centuries. In 1572 it was attacked by men from Blackness Castle on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and it was occupied in 1651 by Oliver Cromwell's army after the Battle of Inverkeithing. It remained a Stewart residence until it was sold in the late seventeenth century to David Drummond of Invermay. It ultimately ended up in the possession of the Earl of Hopetoun and from the eighteenth century onward remained unoccupied. It became Admiralty property in 1903 and as the result of land reclamation lost its waterfront position, becoming marooned within the dockyard.





e Rosyth, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Dressing Shawls Scotland

Old photograph of Crofters dressing shawls on the Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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