Old Photograph West Kilbride Scotland

Old photograph of shops, cars, houses and people in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is on the west coast of Scotland by the Firth of Clyde, looking across the water to Goat Fell and the Isle of Arran. West Kilbride is generally believed to be named after the ancient Celtic Saint Brigid of Kildare, often known as St Bride. The town became known as a weaving and agricultural town, one of many Ayrshire towns specialising in potatoes. Since the town became linked by rail to Glasgow in 1878, it began to attract more visitors.



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Old Photograph High Street Fort William Scotland

Old photograph of cars, shops, houses and people on the High Street in Fort William, Scotland. Historically, this area of Lochaber was strongly Clan Cameron country, and there were a number of mainly Cameron settlements in the area, such as Blarmacfoldach. Before the building of the fort, Inverlochy was the main settlement in the area and was also where two battles took place- the first Battle of Inverlochy in 1431 and the second Battle of Inverlochy in 1645. The town grew in size as a settlement when the fort was constructed to control the population after Oliver Cromwell's invasion during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and then to suppress the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start and end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.



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Old Photograph High Street Inverness Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people and houses on the High Street in Inverness, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Aberchirder Scotland

Old photograph of Aberchirder located six miles west of Turriff in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village was founded in 1764 by Alexander Gordon, the 5th laird of Auchintoul. Until 1823 its official name was, in fact, Foggieloan after a small farm community on the site of which it was built. In 1823 the village was renamed Aberchirder after the 13th century Thanes of Aberkerdour of Kinnairdy Castle.



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Old Photograph Elmtree Nursing Home Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Elmtree Nursing Home in Pollokshields, Glasgow. Scotland. Pollokshields was established by the Stirling Maxwell family in 1849, and was set out or feued by the Edinburgh architect David Rhind. Many well known Glaswegian architects contributed to its development and, amongst others, it contains villas by Alexander Greek Thomson. There are several contributions by contemporaries of Charles Rennie Mackintosh including a series of good Glasgow style tenements by the architect H. E. Clifford.





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