Old Photograph Making Tweed Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter making Tweed on Island Of Harris, Scotland. For centuries the islanders of Lewis and Harris, the Uists, Benbecula and Barra have woven cloth by hand calling it Clò Mór in the original Gaelic or The big cloth. As the Industrial Revolution reached Scotland, mainland manufacturers turned to mechanisation but the Outer Hebrides retained their traditional processes.



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Old Photographs Ballintore Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in Ballintore in Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. This Scottish village has a large harbour, built around 1890. On the sea front there is a plaque in commemoration of John Ross, a Scots Missionary, born 1842, died 1915, who was responsible for translation of the Bible into Korean. John received his education at Fearn School, Glasgow University and Theological Hall, Edinburgh. In 1872 he was sent by the Scottish United Presbyterian Mission to Northeast China, known at that time as Manchuria. While in China, John met traders from Korea one day, and decided to make a Korean translation of the New Testament, which was completed in 1887 and brought to Korea. John returned to Scotland in 1910, but continued to help the Scotland China Society. He died in Edinburgh and is buried in Newington Cemetery.

Old photograph of Ballintore in Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Dochgarroch Lock Scotland

Old photograph of Dochgarroch Lock at the head of Loch Ness, Scotland. Dochgarroch is located at the start of the Caledonian Canal. The canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in the Highlands. The canal was constructed in the early nineteenth century by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford, and is a sister canal of the Göta Canal in Sweden, also constructed by Telford.



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Old Photographs Nethy Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Nethy Bridge, Scotland. Known locally as simply as " Nethy " the village has, since Victorian times been a tourist destination noted for its quiet and secluded location at the edge of the Abernethy Forest. It is situated in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland between Aviemore and Grantown-on-Spey.

Old photograph of Nethy Bridge, Scotland.

Old photograph of Nethy Bridge, Scotland.

Old photograph of the golf course in Nethy Bridge, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Stevenston Scotland

Old photograph of Stevenston in North Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is named after Stephan Loccard or Lockhart, whose father obtained a grant of land from Richard de Morville, Lord of Cunninghame and Constable of Scotland, around 1170. The town is first mentioned in a charter of 1240. The town has a link with Robert Burns as Mayville House was the birthplace in 1768 of Miss Lesley Baillie. Robert Burns met her in 1792 and described her to a friend as " the most beautiful, most elegant woman in the world ". She inspired one or two of his love poems, in which she is described as Bonnie Lesley.

Old photograph of Stevenston in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

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