Old Photograph Rustic Place Anstruther Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses on Rustic Place street in Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The street date back to at least the 1890s, showing it as an established part of the town’s residential fabric with unmetalled roads and iron railings.

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Old Photograph John's Loan Road To The Golf Course In Biggar Scotland

Old photograph of John's Loan road to the golf course in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crofters Gathering Seaweed Gruinard Bay Scotland

Old photograph of crofters gathering seaweed on Gruinard Bay twelve miles North of Poolewe in Wester Ross, Scotland. In the late 1600s, a use for seaweed was discovered which was to ultimately provide a major industry for the Western Highlands Coast, Isles and Orkney archipelago. Extraction of soda and potash from seaweed provided a ready supply of these chemicals for the British isles. The practice had been introduced to Scotland in the late seventeenth Century. There are records of its first appearance in Anstruther, Fife, in 1694. By 1722 the practice had spread to Orkney, brought by an Orcadian entrepreneur named James Fea. There was relatively little kelp burning on Isle of Skye, where the first appearance of the industry was as late as 1758, and the more southerly islands, and there was almost no kelp ash industry to speak of in Shetland. Mull did have a modest industry at one time, centred around Loch na Keal.



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Old Photograph Lover's Stones St Kilda Scotland

Old photograph of the Lover's Stones, St Kilda, Scotland. There is a story that young men of St Kilda, before they could marry, had to prove they were able to provide for a family by climbing the rocks to catch birds for food. They had to balance on their left foot over the edge of a protruding rock, place their right foot in front, bend down and make a fist over their feet. This balancing act was proof of their agility on the rocks. At least two rock outcrops are associated with this legend, the Lover's Stone and the Mistress Stone.



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Old Photograph Cottages And Bay St Kilda Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages by the Bay on St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.



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