Old Photograph Golf Course Gairloch Scotland

Old photograph of the golf course in Gairloch, Scotland. There has been a golf club beside Gairloch Sands since 1898. Before that time, Parish records show that golf was regularly played on the links amongst the sand dunes.



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Old Photograph Craigengillan House Scotland

Old photograph of Craigengillan House in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Craigengillan was first established as an estate in 1580, when it encompassed over 30,000 acres, stretching as far as Carsphairn. The founding family, the McAdams, and their descendants, remained the proprietors until 1999.



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Old Photograph Conscience Bridge Cairneyhill Scotland

Old photograph of Conscience Bridge in Cairneyhill, near Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. There is a small bridge over the Torry Burn at the west end of the village known as the "Conscience Bridge". This name arises from local legend, in which a murderer was caught and confessed to his crime on the bridge and hanged himself. The line of the road has been straightened and widened over the years, with only the original north parapet remaining, but the name of the bridge is carved into a plaque which can be seen by leaning over the wall. This Scottish village began in the 18th century as a settlement for local weavers and was served by the parish church that was built in 1752 and is still used today. This was a hotbed of dissenters and the village was a central point for the religious disputes in Scotland in the early 19th Century.



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Old Photographs Falkirk Scotland

Old photograph of Falkirk, Scotland. In the 18th century the area served as the cradle of Scotland's Industrial Revolution, becoming the earliest major centre of the iron casting industry. James Watt cast some of the beams for his early steam engine designs at the Carron Iron Works in 1765. The area was at the forefront of canal construction when the Forth and Clyde Canal opened in 1790. The Union Canal built in 1822 provided a link to Edinburgh and early railway development followed in the 1830s and 1840s. The Antonine Wall, which stretches across the centre of Scotland, passed through the town and remnants of it can be seen at Callendar Park. Similar to Hadrian's Wall but built of turf rather than stone so less of it has survived, it marked the northern frontier of the Roman Empire between the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde during the AD 140s. Much of the best evidence of Roman occupation in Scotland has been found in Falkirk, including a large hoard of Roman coins and a cloth of tartan, thought to be the oldest ever recorded.



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Old Photograph Delgatie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Delgatie Castle near Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A castle has stood on this site since the year 1030 AD, although the earliest parts of the castle standing today were built between 1570 and 1579. Additional wings and a chapel were added in 1743. The castle was stripped from the disgraced Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan after the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and given to Clan Hay, later to become the Earls of Erroll. Mary, Queen of Scots, was a guest at the castle in 1562 after the Battle of Corrichie. Like many castles, Delgatie is rumoured to be haunted. A number of reports of a ghostly red-haired figure, supposedly one Alexander Hay, were made by soldiers posted there during the Second World War.




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