Old Photograph Burnbank Scotland

Old photograph of a Bus, shops, people and houses in Burnbank, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Since the 19th century immigrants from many parts of the world have settled in Burnbank. Immigration from other parts of Scotland during the period of the Highland Clearances occurred. The most significant to date numerically were undoubtedly the Irish immigrants who arrived between the mid 19th century and the mid 20th century mainly to work in the coal-fields and heavy industry. Immigration to Burnbank from Italy was mainly from the Lucca and Frosinone in the Abruzzi. Some of the Italian Scots in Burnbank owned ice-cream parlours (which later became fish and chip shops) and operated ice cream carts, later vans, to such an extent that the local term for an ice cream seller became " tally " , derived from Italian, as in " tally van ".



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Old Photograph Glencarse Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Glencarse located four miles to the East of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village lies alongside the A90 road. It was formerly served by a railway station on the Caledonian Railway. John Gabriel Murray, a former Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, was the incumbent of the Scottish Episcopal Church’s All Saints Church in the village from 1959 to 1970.



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Old Photograph Seggieden House Scotland

Old photograph of Seggieden House located near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was bought from Sir Thomas Blair of Balthayock in 1652 by John Nairn. He was succeeded by his third daughter, Barbara Hay, wife of Patrick Hay, second son of James Hay of Pitfour. Their son, John Hay inherited the estate and he married Lilias Hay, daughter of John Hay of Pitfour. James Hay of Seggieden, born 1739, died 781, succeeded his father in 1754 and married Jean Donaldson in 1770. He built Seggieden House, which was finished in 1789, in the Adam style. His son, James Hay born 1771, died 1838, inherited the estate in 1781. James Hay pursued a military career and had many commissions including the Eastern Battalion of the Royal Perthshire Local Militia, he was also a deputy lieutenant of Perthshire. He married Margaret Richardson, daughter of John Richardson of Pitfour, in 1801 and their son Captain James Richardson Hay, born 1802, died 1854, inherited the estate in 1838. He married in 1833 Margaret Lothian Douglas and succeeded his mother in the estate of Aberargie assuming the name of Richardson-Hay. On his death his daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth Richardson-Hay, born 1834, died 1914, inherited the estate. She married Captain Henry Maurice Drummond, born 1814, died 1896, son of Admiral Sir Adam Drummond of Megginch, in 1859. The couple assumed the name of Drummond-Hay on their marriage. Captain Henry Drummond-Hay was a captain in the 42nd Royal Highlanders and a keen naturalist. His grandson, James Drummond-Hay born 1905, died 1981, inherited the estate in 1928 and married Lady Margaret Douglas Hamilton in 1930. He was a major in the Scots Guards during the Second World War and served in Germany in the post-war government, returning to live at Seggieden in 1948.



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Old Photograph Butterstone House Scotland

Old photograph of Butterstone House, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was a Preparatory School founded in 1947 by The Hon Elizabeth Lyle, the younger daughter of Sir Archibald Sinclair of Ulbster, MP for Caithness and Sutherland, leader of the Liberal Party, Winston Churchill's wartime Secretary of State for Air and in 1952 created Viscount Thurso. Between 1947 and 1991 the school was located at Butterstone House, near Dunkeld before merging with Kilgraston School in Bridge of Earn.



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Old Photograph Arthurstone House Scotland

Old photograph of Arthurstone House located fifteen miles from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house dates from around 1789. It was owned by the Carmichael family from 1869 until 1990. The house has a romantic history, with legend claiming that the estate obtained its name from an ancient stone of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere which was found within the ground.



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