Old Photograph Hanover Street Stranraer Scotland

Old photograph of shops, cars, people and buildings on Hanover Street in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Sir James Caird, who was born in Stranraer in 1816, was a Scottish agricultural writer and politician. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and University of Edinburgh. He was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth, England, from 1857 to 1859 and for Stirling Burghs from 1859 to 1865. He was a free trade farmer. In 1849, he wrote High Farming as the best Substitute for Protection. He toured American, and Canada. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1865, President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1880 and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1889. He was senior member of the Land Commission in 1882. He was director of the land department of the Board of Agriculture from 1889 to 1891.



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Old Photograph Cottages Culross Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Culross, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph John Ruskin Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of John Ruskin in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. John Ruskin, born 8 February 1819, died 10 January 1900, was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, water colourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. 10 Rose Terrace in Perth is where Ruskin spent boyhood holidays with Scottish relatives. Effie Gray was born on May 7th 1828 at Bowerswell House in Perth. Her father, though not rich was of comfortable means and was able to buy Bowerswell House as a home for his wife, himself and their fifteen children. He had bought the house from John James Ruskin, father of John Ruskin the famous art critic. It was because of the connection between the two families that Effie was to meet and later to marry John Ruskin.



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Old Photograph Golf Hotel Aberlady Scotland

Old photograph of horses, carriages and people outside the Golf Hotel in Aberlady located five miles northwest of Haddington, Scotland. The building was originally a private dwelling house constructed in 1638. It was converted into a bed and breakfast/boarding house in the 1950s and then into a hotel in 1970, incorporating the former schoolhouse next door.


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Old Photograph Reform Lane Lerwick Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Reform Lane in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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