Old Photographs Shell House Garden And Bus Leven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Shell house, bus and garden in Leven, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph St Columba Church Isleornsay Skye Scotland

Old photograph of St Columba Church, Isleornsay, Sleat Peninsula on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The Mission Church at Isleornsay was built by Messrs Forbes and Macleod of Stornoway,Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides. It was formally opened on Tuesday 27 August 1901. Isleornsay is a village lying off the main Armadale to Sleat road, it overlooks, but is not upon, the island of Ornsay. Emigration from the Highlands and Islands was endemic in the 19th century and the company that ran the Isleornsay store, MacDonald and Elder, acted as emigration agents from the early 1800s. In 1822 they advertised that they were able to to fit out transports for the conveyance of passengers from Inverness and the West Coast of the Scottish Highlands to the east coast of Canada. In the 1830s a programme of assisted passages to Australia from the Sleat peninsula was organised. The William Nicol sailed to Sydney from Isleornsay in July 1837 with 322 passengers including 70 families from Sleat. At the time it was reported that so many local people wished to emigrate that the ship could not accommodate all those who wanted to embark.



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Old Photograph Watchstone Brogar Orkney Islands Scotland

Old photograph of the Watchstone by Brogar, Stenness, Orkney, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Hydroelectric Dam Tunnel Lochaber Scotland

Old photograph of workers building the Hydroelectric Dam Tunnel in Lochaber, Scotland. This was part of a hydroelectric power generation project constructed in the Lochaber area of the western Scottish Highlands after the First World War. Like its predecessor at Kinlochleven, it was intended to provide electricity for aluminium production, this time at Fort William, a little further north. The scheme was initially designed by engineer Charles Meik but after his death in 1923, the scheme’s realisation was left to William Halcrow, by then a partner in the firm originally founded by Meik’s father Thomas Meik. The scheme harnessed the headwaters of the Rivers Treig and Spean and the flood waters of the River Spey, plus a further eleven small rivers burns along the way. The Laggan Dam contained the flow of the Spean in a reservoir, Loch Laggan. A three mile long tunnel then linked this body of water with another reservoir at Loch Treig contained by the Treig dam. From here, the main tunnel, until 1970 the longest water carrying tunnel in the world, 15 miles long and 15 feet in diameter, was driven around the Ben Nevis massif. From the western mountainside, down five massive steel pipes, the water rushed towards the turbines in the power house at the smelting plant.




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Old Photograph Cottage Loch Kinord Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage near Loch Kinord in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A Scottish castle, which used to stand on one of the islets of the loch, was first known to have been recorded as a refuge for the Earl of Atholl after the battle of Culblean in 1335. There have been archaeological finds at Loch Kinord including a medieval bronze jug.

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