Old Photograph Blacksmiths In Galashiels Scotland

Old photograph of Blacksmiths in Galashiels, Borders, Scotland. Andrew John Herbertson was born on 11 October 1865 in Galashiels. He went to school locally at Galashiels Academy and in Edinburgh at Edinburgh Institution. From 1886 to 1889 he studied in the University of Edinburgh, but he never gained a degree. He then gained a place at Oxford University where he graduated MA. In 1892 he went with Patrick Geddes to Dundee to teach botany. in 1892 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. He then moved in 1892 to Fort William, Scotland to work on a metereological observatory on Ben Nevis. In 1894 he moved to Manchester to become a lecturer in political and commercial geography in the University of Manchester, England. In 1898 he received a doctorate from University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau. In 1899 he moved to the University of Oxford to become a reader of geography; then became the first Oxford Professor of Geography in 1905. He would become head of the geography department at Oxford in 1910. In 1908 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. He died of a heart attack on 15 July 1915 in Radnage, Buckinghamshire. He is buried with his wife Frances Dorothy, who died two weeks later, in Holywell Cemetery nearby. Their son, Lt. Andrew Hunter Herbertson, was killed at Arras in the First World War in May 1917.



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Old Photograph Falls of Halladale Ship River Clyde Scotland

Old photograph of Falls of Halladale ship in the River Clyde by Glasgow, Scotland. The Falls of Halladale was a four masted iron hulled barque that was built in 1886 for the long distance bulk carrier trade. She was built for the Falls Line, Wright, Breakenridge and Company, Glasgow, at the shipyard of Russell and Company, Greenock on the River Clyde, she was named after a rather small waterfall on the Halladale River in the Caithness district of Scotland. The Falls of Halladale is best known for her spectacular demise in a shipwreck near Peterborough, Victoria on the shipwreck coast of Victoria, Australia. On the night of 14 November 1908 she was sailed in dense fog directly onto the rocks due to a navigational error. The crew of 29 abandoned ship safely and all made it ashore by boat, leaving the ship foundering with her sails unfurled. For weeks after the wreck large crowds gathered to view the ship as she gradually broke up and then sank in the shallow water. Soon after the accident the ship's master, Captain David Wood Thomson, was brought before a Court of Marine Inquiry in Melbourne and found guilty of a gross act of misconduct, having carelessly navigated the ship, having neglected to take proper soundings, and having failed to place the ship on a port tack before it became too late to avoid the shipwreck. Captain Thomson's punishment included a small fine and he had his Certificate of Competency as a Master suspended for six months.



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Old Photograph Police Station Thurso Scotland

Old photograph of the Police Station in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. George Finlayson was born in Thurso in 1790. He was a Scottish naturalist and traveller. He was called one of the best naturalists of his day, and was noted for his pioneering studies of the plants, animals, and people of southern Thailand and the Malay peninsula. He was clerk to Dr. Somerville, chief of the army medical staff in Scotland, and afterwards to Dr. Farrel, chief of the army medical staff in Ceylon. He was then transferred to Bengal, and attached to the 8th Light Dragoons as assistant surgeon in 1819. In 1821 he accompanied the Crawfurd trade mission to Siam, now Thailand, and Cochin China, now Vietnam, as naturalist, returning with it to Calcutta in 1823. By this time his health was thoroughly broken. He died on the passage from Bengal to Scotland in August 1823. The journal which he had kept during the mission was edited, with a prefatory note on the author, by Sir Stamford Raffles, F.R.S., and published in 1826 under the title The Mission to Siam and Hue, the capital of Cochin China, in the years 1821 to 1822, from the Journal of the late George Finlayson, Esq. The bird stripe throated bulbul, Pycnonotus finlaysoni, is named in Finlayson's honour. George died in 1823.



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Old Photograph Mother And Daughter Beach Lower Largo Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a mother and daughter by a small fishing boat on the beach at Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Of Children By Sand Dunes On The West Sands In St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children by sand dunes on the West Sands beach by St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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