Old Photographs Golf Course Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the golf course in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland. The Blair Atholl Golf Club is a nine-hole course founded in 1896. The original course was extended to 18 holes for a period before returning to nine, and it has hosted notable golfers like Tom Morris and James Braid.

Old Photograph Blackhill Golf Course Scotland

Old photograph of Blackhill Golf Course near Glasgow, Scotland. Scottish golf club history on the west coast of Scotland began with the Glasgow Golf Club, which was founded in May 1787 by wealthy Glaswegian merchants and serving army officers. They played initially on Glasgow Green. In 1870 the club moved to Queens Park. As congestion developed on Queens Park, the club moved to Alexandra Park in 1874 and Blackhill in 1895, before finally settling at its present location at Killermont in Bearsden in 1904.



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Old Photograph Corn Mill Rosneath Scotland

Old photograph of the Corn Mill in Rosneath in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. John Anderson was born on 26 September 1726 at the manse at Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, the son of Margaret Turner and Reverend James Anderson. His father and grandfather were prominent ministers of the church. After his father's death he was raised by his aunt in Stirling, where he attended grammar school. He graduated with an MA from the University of Glasgow in 1745. From 1755 to 1757 he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Glasgow, and from 1757 to 1796 Professor of Natural Philosophy. He is the longest-serving natural philosophy lecturer during the 18th century. In 1760, Anderson was appointed to the more congenial post of professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He began to concentrate on physics. He had a love of experiments, practical mechanics and inventions. He encouraged James Watt in his development of steam power. He was acquainted with Benjamin Franklin, and in 1772 he installed the first lightning conductor in Glasgow. John Anderson died in Glasgow on 13 January 1796 at the age of 69. He is buried with his grandfather in Ramshorn Cemetery on Ingram Street in Glasgow. On 13 January 1996 representatives from the University of Glasgow laid a wreath to mark the bicentennial of Anderson's death.

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Old Photograph Mother And Children Island Of Arran Scotland

Old photograph of a mother walking with her children outside her cottage on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. In the early 19th century Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton, born 1767, died 1852, embarked on a programme of clearances that had a devastating effect on the island's population. These " improvements " typically led to land that had been rented out to as many as 27 families being converted into a single farm. In some cases, land was promised in Canada for each adult emigrant male. In April 1829, for example, 86 islanders boarded the brig Caledonia for the two month journey, half their fares being paid for by the Duke. However, on arrival in Quebec only 100 acres was made available to the heads of extended families. Whole villages were removed and the Gaelic culture of the island devastated.



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Old Photograph Mother And Children Outside A Tenement In Aberdeeen Scotland

Old photograph of mother and children outside a tenement in Aberdeen, Scotland. A tenement was a substandard multi family dwelling occupied by the poor. Tenements make up a large percentage of the housing stock of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Glasgow tenements were built to provide high-density housing for the large number of people immigrating to the city in the 19th and early 20th century as a result of the Industrial Revolution, when the city's population boomed to more than 1 million people. Edinburgh's tenements are much older, dating from the 17th century onwards, and some were up to 15 stories high when first built, which made them the tallest houses in the world at that time.



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