Old Photograph Doune Burn Scotland

Old photographs of cottages and people in Doune Burn by Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. South Ayrshire borders onto Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire.



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Old Photograph St Andrew's Church Tongue Scotland

Old photograph of St Andrew's Church in Tongue, Northern Sutherland, Scotland. This Scottish church was rebuilt by Donald Mackay, Master of Reay, in 1680 following the Reay family's conversion to Protestantism. The site was that of the ancient Celtic and latterly Roman Catholic Church, St Peter's Chapel. During a renovation in 1729 a vault was built covering the graves of earlier members of the MacKay family. Lord Reay, of Reay in the County of Caithness, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Lord Reay is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Mackay, whose lands in Strathnaver and north west Sutherland were known as the Reay Country. The land was sold to the Earls of Sutherland in the 18th century.



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Old Photograph Duntulm Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Duntulm Castle on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. This Scottish castle stands ruined on the north coast of Trotternish, on the Isle of Skye, near the hamlet of Duntulm. During the 17th century it was the seat of the chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Sleat. The castle was built in the 14th and 15th centuries, when the area was subject to feuds between the rival MacLeod and Macdonald clans. The defences were improved in the 16th century, and by the early 17th century the MacDonald's had finally gained the upper hand in the area. Around 1732 the castle was abandoned, when Sir Alexander MacDonald built a new residence, Monkstadt House, 5 miles to the south, robbing much of the castle's stone as building material.



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Old Photograph Waterbeck Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Waterbeck near Ecclefechan, Scotland. This Scottish village in Annandale is located to the West of the Kirtle Water. Waterbeck is now a small, rural village in the south-west of Scotland. It has not always been that way. In the early medieval period when the area was close to the Debatable Lands, the Bell family, known as the 'bloody Bells', were involved in the Border feuds, marauding and killing. During the eighteenth century, Waterbeck grew to be a thriving village supporting numerous trades, as well as being surrounded by working farms and other settlements. In its time it rose to become one of the most important centres for bacon curing and agricultural seed production in Scotland, due to the enterprise of the Carlyle family.



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Old Photograph Inveresk Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, shop and people in Inveresk located to the South of Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. James Wedderburn lived in this part of Scotland. He made his fortune as a slave owning sugar plantation owner in Jamaica. When his son by one of his slaves, Robert Wedderburn, travelled to Inveresk to claim his kinship he was insultingly rejected by his father who gave him some small beer and a broken or bent sixpence. This experience turned Robert Wedderburn to radicalism.



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