Old Photograph Grammar School Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of the Grammar School in Aberdeen, Scotland. This is the oldest school in the city and one of the oldest grammar schools in the United Kingdom, with a history spanning more than 750 years. Founded around 1257, the year used in official school records, it began operating as a boys' school. On Skene Street, near the centre of the city, it was originally situated on Schoolhill, near the current site of Robert Gordon's College. It moved to its current site in 1863. The most notable alumnus is Lord Byron, the Romantic poet and writer.



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Old Photograph Flemington Rows Cambuslang Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Flemington Rows street in Cambuslang, a suburban town on the south eastern outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland. Cambuslang is an ancient part of Scotland where Iron Age remains loom over 21st century housing developments. The local geography explains a great deal of its history. It has been very prosperous over time, depending first upon its agricultural land, supplying food, then wool, then linen, then the mineral resources under its soil, limestone and coal, and, to some extent, iron. These were jealously guarded by the medieval Church, and later by the local aristocracy, particularly the Duke of Hamilton, previously Barons of Cadzow and Earls of Arran. Because of its relative prosperity, Cambuslang has been intimately concerned in the politics of the country, through the Hamilton connection, and of the local Church. Bishop John Cameron of Glasgow, the Scottish King's first minister, and Cardinal Beaton, a later first minister, were both Rectors of Cambuslang. This importance continued following the Protestant Reformation. From then until the Glorious Revolution a stream of Ministers of Cambuslang came, were expelled, or were re-instated, according to whether supporters of the King, Covenanters, or Oliver Cromwell were in power. The religious movements of the 18th century, including the Cambuslang Wark, were directly linked to similar movements in North America. The Scottish Enlightenment was well represented in the person of Rev Dr James Meek, the Minister. His troubles with his parishioners foreshadowed the split in the Church of Scotland during the 19th century. The manufacturing industries that grew up from the agricultural and mineral resources attracted immigrants from all over Scotland and Ireland and other European countries. Cambuslang benefited at all times from its closeness to the burgeoning city of Glasgow, brought closer in the 18th century by a turnpike road then, in the 19th century, by a railway.



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Old Photograph Tea Room By Loch Katrine Trossachs Scotland

Old photograph of the interior of a tea room by Loch Katrine, Trossachs, Scotland.



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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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