Old Photograph Archerfield House Scotland

Old photograph of Archerfield House in the parish of Dirleton, East Lothian, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was built in the late 17th century, and was once the seat of the Nisbet family, feudal barons and lairds of Dirleton. It has Palladian windows, and was substantially rebuilt by architect John Douglas in 1745, and added to and altered throughout the 18th century, notably by Scottish architect Robert Adam who remodelled the interiors in 1790.



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Old Photograph Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery Scotland

Old photograph of Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery on Hoy, Orkney Islands, Scotland. This Scottish cemetery was begun in 1915 when Scapa Flow was the base of the Grand Fleet. Lyness remained as a Royal Naval base until July 1946 and the cemetery contains graves from both wars.



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Tour Scotland Video Suitcase Guitar Player Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a suitcase guitar player. playing music at the Festival Fringe on The Royal Mile on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Maryhill Barracks Gates Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the gates to Maryhill Barracks in Glasgow, Scotland. These Scottish barracks were opened as Garrioch Barracks in 1872. Built to accommodate an infantry regiment, a squadron of cavalry and a battery of field artillery, it dominated the area which is now the Wyndford housing estate. The barracks replaced the previous Infantry Barracks at Duke Street in the East End of the city, which dated from 1795. Maryhill Barracks became the depot of the Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow regiment after the Childers Reforms of 1881. During the 1919 general strike in Glasgow, the soldiers at Maryhill Barracks were deemed to be unreliable and were confined to barracks while troops from elsewhere were brought in to impose order. It was in 1919 that Maryhill Barracks was used as a marshalling place for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders before embarking for India. It was also home to the Scots Greys and famously held Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Rudolf Hess during World War II after his supposed Peace flight to the UK in 1941, at a time when it was used as a prisoner of war camp. In 1942, the Free French leader, General Charles de Gaulle, visited French troops there. The Barracks were decommissioned and largely demolished in the early 1960s.



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Old Photograph West Sandwick Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages in West Sandwick on the Isle of Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland. This is one of the few settlements in the west of the island. The area south of Southladie Flo is an important feeding area for locally breeding Red throated Divers. As recently as the 1800s, the behaviour of the red throated bird was used to forecast the weather; according to the conventional wisdom of the time, birds flying inland or giving short cries predicted good weather, while those flying out to sea or giving long, wailing cries predicted rain. In the Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland, the species is still known as the " rain goose " in deference to its supposed weather predicting capabilities. The people of the nearby Faroe Islands believed that if the red throated bird sounded like a cat, then rain was imminent, while a call of gaa-gaa-gaa or turkatrae-turkatrae predicted fine weather.





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