Old Photograph Jean Alwyn Scotland

Old photograph of Jean Alwyn who was born on October 10, 1885 in Hawick, Scotland. Tour Scottish Borders. Jean was a Scottish actress, known for Winning a Widow in 1910 and The Greatest Wish in the World in 1918. She also acted in Levy's play, " Who's the Lady ? ", at the Garrick Theatre in London, England with Farren Soutar, E. Dagnall, Fay Compton, Violet Gould, and Minnie Terry in the cast.



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Old Photograph George MacDonald Scotland

Old photograph of George MacDonald who was born on 10 December 1824 in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. George was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. His father, a farmer, was one of the MacDonalds of Glen Coe, and a direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the massacre of 1692. He took his degree at the University of Aberdeen, and then went to London, England, studying at Highbury College for the Congregational ministry. He went to London and taught for some time at the University of London. MacDonald was also for a time editor of Good Words for the Young, and lectured successfully in the United States during 1872 to 1873. His best known works are Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith, all fantasy novels, and fairy tales such as The Light Princess, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. " I write, not for children, " he wrote, " but for the child like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy five. " MacDonald also published some volumes of sermons, the pulpit not having proved an unreservedly successful venue. He died on 18 September 1905.



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Old Photograph Jack Buchanan Scotland

Old photograph of Jack Buchanan who was born 2 April 1891 in Helensburgh, Scotland. Jack was the son of Walter John Buchanan, died 1902, and his wife, Patricia, née McWatt, died 1936. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy. After a brief attempt to follow his late father's profession as an auctioneer and a failure at acting in Glasgow, he went to London and became a music-hall comedian under the name of Chump Buchanan and first appeared on the West End in September 1912 in the comic opera The Grass Widow at the Apollo Theatre. Hardship dogged him for a while before he became famous whilst on tour in Tonight's the Night. He produced and acted in his own plays both in London and New York. Buchanan's Hollywood films included Paris, The Show of Shows, 1929, Monte Carlo, 1930, The Band Wagon, 1953. His British films included Yes, Mr Brown, Good Night, Vienna, That's a Good Girl, Brewster's Millions, Come Out of the Pantry, When Knights Were Bold, This'll Make You Whistle , Smash and Grab, The Sky's the Limit, Break the News, The Gang's All Here, The Middle Watch, Bulldog Sees It Through , As Long as They're Happy, and Josephine and Men. He made one French film, The Diary of Major Thompson. Buchanan died in London in 1957 when he was 66 years old.

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Old Photograph Frederick Guthrie Tait Scotland

Old photograph of Frederick Guthrie Tait who was born on 11 January 1870 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Freddie was a Scottish soldier and amateur golfer. He was the third son of eminent physicist and fanatical amateur golfer Peter Guthrie Tait. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Sedbergh School. He then went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and is credited with introducing golf there. Tait was commissioned into the 2nd battalion the Leinster regiment, 109th foot, and then transferred to the 2nd battalion of the Black Watch. Tait was an extremely powerful and long hitter of the ball. At The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, Fife, on 11 January 1893, he hit the ball 250 yards. Tait won The Amateur Championship twice in 1896 and 1898, finished third in The Open Championship twice in 1896 and 1897, and was leading amateur in the same competition on six occasions. Tait was killed in action at Koodoosberg during the Second Boer War.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Carron Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Carron in Moray, Scotland. This intermediate Scottish station on the Boat of Garten to Craigellachie, Spey Valley or Speyside line of the former Great North of Scotland Railway was opened on 1 July 1863, by the Strathspey Railway. It closed to regular passenger traffic, with the line as a whole, on 18 October 1965.



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