Old Photograph Town Hall Earlsferry East Neuk of Fife Scotland

Old photograph cottages, houses and the town hall in Earlsferry, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish Town Hall, built between 1864 and 1872, has a sailing ship as its weather vane. As well as the plaque to the golfer James Braid, there is one which commemorates the Polish soldiers stationed in the town during the Second World War. Many of them stayed and married local women.



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Old Photograph Celtic Cross Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of the Celtic Cross in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. This cross dates from around 1380. The stone is eleven feet in height and includes the largest known disc head. It is formed from distinctive rock, a schist from Loch Sween, and intricately carved, with Celtic designs, featuring foliage, Saints, a mermaid, sea-monster and other animals. It was erected at a church at Kilkivan near Machrihanish and an inscription suggests it commemorates Sir Ivor MacEachern, its Minister, and was commissioned by his son Sir Andrew MacEachern. It seems to have been moved to Campbeltown after the Reformation.



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Old Photographs Toll House East Kilbride Scotland

Old photograph of the late 18th century Toll House cottage in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is enclosed by the White Cart River to the west and the Rotten Calder to the east, the latter flowing northwards to join the River Clyde near Cambuslang. This area was previously the site of the small village of East Kilbride, prior to its post-war development. The modern settlement serves as a dormitory town for the city of Glasgow. East Kilbride takes its name from an Irish saint named St Bride or Brigit, who founded a monastery for nuns and monks in Kildare, Ireland in the 6th century. Irish monks introduced her order to Scotland. Kil, from the Gaelic cill, means church or burial place.

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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Drive Road From Pittenweem to Colinsburgh East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of an Autumn drive on the B942 road from Pittenweem on ancestry visit to Colinsburgh in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Colinsburgh is named after Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres, born 1652, died 1722, who gave the land on which it was built. It was here that the first meeting of the Presbytery of Relief was held in 1761 after its founders had broken from the Church of Scotland. Balcarres House just north of the village, is based on a mansion built in 1595 by John Lindsay, second son of the ninth Earl of Crawford. The house became the family seat of the Earl of Crawford.

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Tour Scotland Video Walk West Shore Street St Monans East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of a walk along West Shore Street by the harbour front on ancestry visit to the old fishing village of St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This village on the Fife Coastal walking Path is named after the legendary Saint Monan. The village is rich in vernacular fisher cottages and merchant houses of the 17th to early 19th centuries, with characteristic old Scots features such as forestairs, crow-stepped gables, datestones, and pantiled roofs from the time when locals here made their living mainly from fishing.

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