Old Photographs Laggan Dam Scotland

Old photograph of Laggan Dam on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish dam located on the River Spean south west of Loch Laggan. It is part of the Lochaber hydro-electric scheme. The structure was built by Balfour Beatty for the British Aluminium Company and construction was finished in 1934. Water from the dam is conveyed to Loch Treig through 3 miles of tunnel. From there, the waters are conveyed to a power house at Fort William via 15 feet diameter pipe 15 miles long. The dam can be found next to the A86 road from Fort William<.



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Old Photograph Collegiate Church of St Nicholas Buccleuch Dalkeith Scotland

Old photograph of The Collegiate Church of St Nicholas Buccleuch in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. This Medieval church, became collegiate in 1406. Medieval nave and transepts restored in 1854 by David Bryce. James, 1st Earl of Morton, and his wife Princess Joanna, the profoundly deaf third daughter of James I, are buried within the choir. Joan Stewart, Countess of Morton, also called Joanna, born 1428, died 16 October 1486), was the daughter of James I, King of Scotland, and the wife of James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton. She was known, in Latin, as the muta domina, mute lady, of Dalkeith. Joan had two younger brothers, including the future King of Scotland, James II, and five sisters. She had the misfortune to be deaf and dumb. Joan married The 4th Baron Dalkeith before 15 May 1459, who at the time of their marriage was raised to the peerage as the first Earl of Morton. Together Joan and her husband James had four children: Sir John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton, killed at the Battle of Flodden; James Douglas; Janet, married to Sir Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell. Elizabeth, mentioned in a charter of 1479 after which nothing further is known of her.


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Old Photograph Cove Argyll Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Cove in Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is on the south west of the Rosneath peninsula, on the east shore of Loch Long. In common with many villages in the area, it was home to wealthy Glasgow merchants and shipowners in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Several of the large houses have either been converted or have gone. Survivors include over a dozen houses by Alexander " Greek " Thomson: Craigrownie Castle, Glen Eden, Craig Ailey, Ferndean and Seymour Lodge, all dating from the 1850s.



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Old Photographs Strathyre Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Strathyre near Balquhidder, Scotland. Now in the Stirling local government district this village was at one time part of Perthshire. It is within the bounds of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. It is largely a Victorian creation, having grown up with the arrival of the railway in the 1870s and the establishment of Strathyre railway station.



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Old Photograph Eliock House Scotland

Old photograph of Eliock House by Sanquhar north of Dumfries, Scotland. The lands of Elliok were in the hands of the Dalzell family from 1388 to 1720. This large Scottish mansion house, standing on a natural platform overlooking the River Nith, was owned by the Veitch family up until at least 1905 and later by James Irving McConnel, born 1863, fourth son of Frederic McConnel of Blackyett, Dumfriesshire.

The Dalzell name originates from the former barony of Dalzell in Lanarkshire, in the area now occupied by Motherwell. The name Dalzell is first recorded in 1259, and Thomas de Dalzell fought at the Battle of Bannockburn. The Dalzell lands were forfeited later in the 14th century, but regained through marriage in the 15th. Sir Robert Dalzell was created Lord Dalzell in 1628, and his son was further elevated in the peerage as Earl of Carnwath, in 1639. In 1645 the Dalzell estates were sold to the Hamiltons of Orbiston, who held them until the 20th century.



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