Old Photograph Brentfield Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Brenfield, Argyll, Scotland. Brentfield is located near Ardrishaig not far from the southern entrance to the Crinan Canal in Argyll and Bute in the west of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Pier Culross Fife Scotland

Old photograph of people on the stone pier in Culross, Fife, Scotland. Culross harbour with its stone pier is believed to be one of the oldest in Scotland, first used by the monks of Culross Abbey.



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Old Photograph Brunton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Brunton in Fife, Scotland. Brunton in 1846 was described as a village, in the parish of Creich, district of Cupar, county of Fife; containing 90 inhabitants. This village, which is pleasantly situated, is inhabited chiefly by persons employed in agriculture, and in hand-loom weaving for the linen manufacturers of Cupar, under the inspection of a resident agent who furnishes the materials. Previously to the introduction of machinery, several of the females were employed in spinning yarn; but, at present, there is only one spinning wheel in operation.



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Old Photograph Annie Swan's House Kinghorn Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Annie Swan's house in Kinghorn, Fife. Annie Shepherd Swan, born 8 July 1859, died 17 June 1943, was a Scottish journalist, novelist and story writer. She used her maiden name for most of her literary career, but also wrote as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. She was a popular writer of romantic fiction for young women during the Victorian era and published more than 200 novels, serials, short stories and other fiction between 1878 and her death in 1943. Annie was one of the seven children of Edward Swan, a farmer and merchant, by his first wife, Euphemia Brown. After her father's business failed, she attended school in Edinburgh, latterly at the Queen Street Ladies College. Her father belonged to an Evangelical Union congregation, but she turned in adulthood to the Church of Scotland. She persistently wrote fiction as a teenager. She Swan married the schoolteacher James Burnett Smith in 1883. They lived initially in Fife, where she became close friends with the Scottish theologian Robert Flint and his sister. They moved two years later to Morningside, Edinburgh, where Burnett Smith became a medical student, and in 1893 to London, where their two children, Effie and Eddie were born.



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Old Photograph Library Colinsburgh Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Galloway Library in Colinsburgh, Fife, Scotland. Mr Galloway made his money in America. He also left a sum of money to provide newspapers and bursaries to the school children.The Colinsburgh Galloway Library is on the main street in the middle of the village, open twice a week.



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