Old Photograph Funeral Procession Port Charlotte Islay Scotland

Old photograph of a funeral procession in Port Charlotte, Islay, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Autumn Morning Video Drive From Perth To Visit Beech Hedge Meikleour Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn morning travel video of a road trip drive on the A93 route from Perth to the Beech Hedge on ancestry history visit to Meikleour, Perthshire. This Scottish hedge was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband, Robert Murray Nairne on the Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate. It is said the hedge grows towards the heavens because the men who planted it were killed at the Battle of Culloden. The hedge is noted in the Guinness World Records as the tallest and longest hedge on earth, reaching 100 ft in height and 1/3 mile in length. The hedge is trimmed once every ten years, and can be viewed by visitors all year round.

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Old Photograph Warden Road Knightswood Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Warden road in Knightswood, Glasgow, Scotland. Knightswood is a suburban district in Glasgow, containing 4 areas: Knightswood North or High Knightswood, Knightswood South or Low Knightswood, Knightswood Park and Blairdardie. It has a golf course and park, and good transport links with the rest of the city. Garscadden and Scotstounhill railway stations serve Low Knightswood while Westerton station serves High Knightswood. Knightswood is directly adjoined by the Anniesland, Drumchapel, Jordanhill, Netherton, Scotstoun and Yoker areas of Glasgow and by Bearsden in the North. Knightswood was a rural area of Dunbartonshire in the parish of New Kilpatrick with small scale mining until the land was purchased for housing by the city of Glasgow and was annexed by the city in 1926. In subsequent years, housing developments have been built on most of the remaining free plots, but the area remains largely green.



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Old Photograph West High Street Methil Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, children and people on West High Street in Methil, Fife, Scotland. The High Street was once traversed by several railway lines linking local collieries to the docks.


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Old Photograph Harbour Charlestown Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the harbour in Charlestown on the coast of Fife, Scotland. Charlestown was established as a harbour town for the shipment of coal mined on Lord Elgin's Fife estates, and for the production of lime. The harbour's outer basin was built around 1840. In 1887, on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, the Queen's Hall was built at the village centre, to designs by Robert Rowand Anderson. Shipbuilding was carried on at Charlestown in the 19th century, as well as ship breaking. Some of the Warships of the German Imperial Fleet were brought here from Scapa Flow after World War I to be broken up.



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