Old Photograph Mansion House Rouken Glen Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and carriage and people outside the mansion house in Rouken Glen park in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, to the South Weest of Glasgow, Scotland. The lands of Rouken Glen Park originally belonged to the Scottish Crown, and then to the Earl of Eglinton, presented to Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton on the marriage of his son in the year 1530 by king James V. Amongst the park's owners have been Walter Crum of Thornliebank and Archibald Cameron Corbett, M.P. for Tradeston, Glasgow, later Lord Rowallan, who gifted the estate and mansion house to the citizens of Glasgow. The park features in an episode of Scottish comedy series Rab C. Nesbitt, when Rab gets a job sweeping leaves by the pond. A scene from the film Trainspotting was also filmed in Rouken Glen, and the pondside cafeteria, Boaters, was featured in an episode of the BBC Scotland drama series Sea of Souls.



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Old Photograph Balmirmer House Scotland

Old photograph of Balmirmer house located two miles North of Carnoustie and four miles West of Arbroath, Scotland. This is the location of West Balmirmer Farm, the birthplace, in 1891, of Margaret Fairlie, the first woman to hold a university chair in Scotland. Margaret was the daughter of Mr and Mrs James Fairlie and grew up at West Balmirmer Farm, Angus. From 1910 to 1915 she studied at University College, Dundee at the University of St Andrews Conjoint Medical School in Fife. After graduating she held various medical posts in Dundee, Perth, Perthshire, Edinburgh and Manchester, England, before returning to Dundee in 1919 where she ran a consultant practice for gynaecology. In 1920 she began a teaching career at Dundee's Medical School, which lasted for almost four decades. In the mid 1920s she joined the staff of Dundee Royal Infirmary, where she worked for the rest of her career.



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Old Photograph Maryhill Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland. A part of the Antonine Wall runs through Maryhill, in the Maryhill Park area, where there is the site of a Roman fort adjoining the wall in nearby Bearsden. Maryhill had the first Temperance Society in the United Kingdom after lawlessness filled the streets in the Victorian era. Maryhill also boasts one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed by the Inverness architect James Robert Rhind. Maryhill Barracks was opened in 1872 and once dominated the area that is now the Wyndford housing estate. It was home to the Scots Greys and the Highland Light Infantry, and famously held Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Rudolf Hess during World War II. Maryhill was known as the Venice of the North for its canals and also for being the centre of the glass industry, with its Caledonia Works and Glasgow Works.



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Old Photograph Faithlie Basin Fraserburgh Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats at Faithlie Basin in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Construction of the Faithlie Basin in 1909 took place at a time when the herring curing was at a peak.



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Old Photograph Howmore Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter outside the thatched Post Office cottage in Howmore on South Uist, Scotland. South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clan Ranald who made a good living from kelp harvesting owing to the demand for kelp around the turn of the 19th century. At that time population of the island was around 7300. After the Napoleonic Wars however, competition from imported Barilla resulted in a collapse in the price for kelp and the chief of Clan Ranald found himself facing bankruptcy. South Uist was sold to Lt. Colonel John Gordon of Cluny in 1837 and the fortunes of the island's tenants went downhill from that point. He initiated Highland Clearances to make way for sheep farming, supplanting the crofters with farmers from the Borders, who brought flocks of Blackface sheep. As a result, there was large scale emigration from the island.



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