Old Photograph Tommy Ring Scotland

Old photograph of Tommy Ring who was born on 8 August 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland. Tommy was a Scottish footballer who played for Ashfield, Clyde, Everton, Barnsley in England, Aberdeen, Fraserburgh, Stevenage Town and the Scotland national team. He is perhaps best known for his time at Scottish club Clyde, during which he won the Scottish Cup in 1955 and 1958. Ring scored the winning goal in the replayed 1955 Scottish Cup Final, against Celtic. Ring also won Scottish Division Two championships in 1951-52 and 1956-57.



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Old Photograph Police Station Kirkcaldy Scotland

Old photograph of the Police Station n Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The 1903 Burgh Police Station once contained a Court House, jail, mortuary, exercise yard and stables. Officers policed Kirkcaldy on foot, horseback and bicycle, policing a population of over 34,000 persons. In 1949 Fife Constabulary was formed combining Kirkcaldy Burgh and Dunfermline City Police.



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Old Photograph St. Drostans Church Markinch Fife Scotland

Old photograph of St. Drostans Church in Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. This Scottish church is the successor of a preaching station said to have been established here towards the close of the 6th century. About the middle of the 11th century, it was given to the Culdees of Loch Leven in Perthshire. In 1203, Duncan, Earl of Fife gave the church to the Priory of St Andrews. On the 19th July 1243, the church was rededicated to St John the Baptist, the former dedication being to St Drostan or Modrust. Although the present parish church is modern, the western tower dates from the 12th century.



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Old Photograph Carlyle House Kirk Wynd Kirkcaldy Scotland

Old photograph of the Thomas Carlyle house in Kirk Wynd in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The celebrated Scottish essayist and Social historian was born at Ecclefechan in Dumfriesshire in 1795. He studied divinity at Edinburgh University but abandoned the clergy and left without a degree in 1814. He spent the next four years teaching mathematics. It was during this period that Carlyle was invited to be master of the Burgh school in Hill street, Kirkcaldy. Thomas Carlyle resided in the Kirk Wynd. Of Kirkcaldy Thomas Carlyle wrote: “ The Kirkcaldy population were a pleasant, honest kind of fellow mortals; something of quietly fruitful, of good old Scotch in their works and ways; more vernacular, peaceable, fixed, and almost genial in their mode of life than I had been used to in my Border homeland. I liked; those ancient little burghs and seaside villages, with their poor little havens, saltpans, and weather beaten breakwaters.Dissatisfied with teaching, Thomas Carlyle, returned to Edinburgh and briefly studied Law. He became a tutor and wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia and the Edinburgh Review. He married Jane Baillie Welsh, a writer, in 1826 and they set up a home on a farm in Craigen-puttock. In 1834 they moved to the Chelsea section of London, England, where Carlyle soon became known as the Sage of Chelsea. After the death of his wife in 1866 he edited her letters and prepared his Reminiscences, in which he revealed unfavourable traits in his character and his neglect of his wife, for which he could not forgive himself. He died in London on February the 5th, 1881.



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Old Photograph Glenluce Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of Glenluce Abbey, Wigtownshire, Scotland. This was was a Cistercian monastery called also Abbey of Luce or Vallis Lucis founded around 1190 by Rolland or Lochlann, Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland. Following the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the abbey fell into disuse. Gilbert, Earl of Cassillis obtained control of Glenluce during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. The Earl persuaded one of the monks of the abbey to counterfeit the necessary signatures to a deed conveying the lands of the abbey to him and his heirs. To ensure that the forgery was not discovered he employed a man to murder the monk and then persuaded his uncle, the laird of Bargany to hang his paid assassin on a trumped up charge of theft. The success of these actions encouraged him to obtain the lands of Crossraguel Abbey through the torturing of Allan Stewart, the commendator at his castle of Dunure.



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