Old Photograph Craignish Church Scotland

Old photograph of Craignish Church located South of Oban, Scotland. Attractive Georgian church built in 1826 with hipped roof and harled masonry walls.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The station was opened as Perth General by the Scottish Central Railway in 1848. Originally the terminus of the main line from Greenhill Junction near Glasgow, it soon became a junction of some importance with the arrival of the Dundee and Perth Railway from Dundee, following the completion of a bridge across the River Tay, the Edinburgh and Northern Railway from Ladybank on the Fife coast and the Scottish Midland Junction Railway from Forfar within months. Subsequent construction by the Perth and Dunkeld Railway and the Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway added further lines into and out of the city, with the former becoming part of what is now the Highland Main Line to Inverness in the Highlands. The SMJR meanwhile would become part of a through route to Aberdeen by 1856, thus giving Perth travellers easy access to all of the major Scottish cities.



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Old Photographs Neilston Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage, houses, shops and children in Neilston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. Neilston is mentioned in documents as early as the twelfth century, when the feudal lord Robert de Croc, endowed a chapel to Paisley Abbey to the North. Neilston Parish Church is said to stand on the site of this original chapel and has lain at the centre of the community since 1163. Sadly little remains of the original structure.

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Tour Scotland Video Archbishop James Sharp Tomb Holy Trinity Church St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Archbishop James Sharp Tomb on visit to Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. James Sharp was born in Banff Castle in 1618 and studied at King's College, Aberdeen. In 1642 he was a regent at the University of St Andrews and in 1648 he became the minister at Crail. He married Helen Moncrieff with whom he had seven children. Sharp is now best known these days for his murder in 1679. The memorial monument consists of three tiers. The lower tier is a marble relief of the murder. The centre tier is a full size marble sculpture of the archbishop kneeling on top of his sarcophagus. The upper tier features a relief of the church of St Regulus at St Andrews.

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Tour Scotland Video Hunter Memorial Aisle Holy Trinity Church St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Hunter Memorial Aisle on visit to Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The Hunter Aisle, also called the Memorial Aisle, was built between 1907 and 1909 by Peter MacGregor Chalmers and is located at the south east of the church.

Recorded as Huntar, Hunter, and the female Huntress and Huntriss, this ancient surname is of Anglo Scottish origins. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century word " hunta ", from " huntian ", meaning to hunt, with the agent suffix " -er ", meaning one who does or works with. The term was used not only of hunters on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, a pursuit in Middle Ages restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also as a nickname for both bird catchers and poachers. The surname is first recorded in Scotland in the early 12th century, whilst the first English recording may be that of Simon Huntere in the Curia Regis Rolls for the county of Bedfordshire in the year 1220.

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