Old Photograph Braehead Street St Monans East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottage, houses and people on Braehead Street in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The village takes its name from St Monance who was killed by invading Danes in about 875. St Adrian was killed on the Isle of May in the same raid and 6,000 Fife Christians are said to have died. Like other small East Neuk towns, St Monans is rich in vernacular fisher and merchant houses of the 17th to early 19th centuries, with characteristic old Scots features. The tradition of shipbuilding has now ceased. For over 200 years the boat builder J W Miller & Sons Ltd produced fifie fishing boats, yachts and motor launches in the villag


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Old Photograph Firemen Airdrie Scotland

Old photograph of Firemen in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs High Street Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart, shops, cars, people, hotel and houses on the High Street in Dingwall, Scotland.



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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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