Old Photograph Hangman's House Stirling Scotland

Old photograph of the Hangman's House in Stirling, Scotland. Public execution in Stirling was usually handled by the Hangman or Staffman as he was known. This official had his own house on St John’s Street. In the 17th century, executions took place at the Mailing Gallows where the Black Boy Fountain now stands.



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Old Photograph Talmine Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages in Talmine, a crofting and fishing township, overlooking Talmine Bay, an inlet on the western shore of Tongue Bay, Northern Sutherland, Scotland.


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Old Photograph Craigenputtock House Scotland

Old photograph of Craigenputtock house in the parish of Dunscore located nine miles North West of Dumfries, Scotland. This Scottish house was the property for generations of the family Welsh, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle, born 1801, died 1866, descended on the paternal side from Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of John Knox. The Carlyles made this house their home in 1828, and remained there for seven years, before moving to Carlyle's House in Cheyne Row, London, England, Britain. Craigenputtock is where Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle was written. The property was bequeathed by Thomas Carlyle to the Edinburgh University on his death in 1881.



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Old Photograph Pomathorn Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Pomathorn near Penicuik, Scotland. The first railway to serve Penicuik in Midlothian was the Peebles Railway, opened in 1855, which had a station named Penicuik uphill from Pomathorn Castle, to the south of the town. This, now closed, station was quite far from the town centre, up a hill and did not serve any industries.



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Old Photograph Cluny Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Cluny Castle near Laggan and Kingussie on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in 1805 for the MacPhersons of Cluny. The original tower of the Cluny MacPhersons was destroyed in the aftermath of the battle of Culloden in 1746 by government troops, due to MacPherson of Cluny's support of the Jacobite cause. Andrew Carnegie and his wife Louise leased Cluny Castle for nine summers in the late nineteenth century. Carnegie attempted to purchase the castle but the owner refused, and Carnegie subsequently bought Skibo Castle.


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