Old Photograph Harbour North Berwick Scotland

Old photograph of boats in the harbour in North Berwick, Scotland.



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Old Photograph High Street Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of shops, cars, buildings, and people on the High Street in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. The Industrial Revolution based on the textile industry turned Paisley from a small market town to an important industrial town in the late 18th century. Its location attracted English mill owners; immigrants from Ayrshire and the Highlands poured in to a town that offered paying jobs to women and children. By the middle of the19th century weaving had become the town's principal industry. The Paisley weavers' most famous product were the shawls, which bore the Paisley Pattern made fashionable after being worn by a young Queen Victoria. The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 cut off cotton supplies to the textile mills of Paisley. The mills in 1861 had a stock of cotton in reserve, but by 1862 there was large scale shortages and closures.



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Old Photographs Kay Park Kilmarnock Scotland

Old photograph of people beside the fountain in Kay Park in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish park was purchased, laid out, and given to the town of Kilmarnock by insurance broker Alexander Kay. It opened in 1879, and is the home of a large monument to Robert Burns. Outside the park is a Corinthian column, erected in memory of a group of Parliamentary reformers who protested here in 1816. The monument was unveiled by Lord Rosebery in 1885.



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Old Photograph St John Bosco Shrine Carfin Scotland

Old photographs of the St John Bosco Shrine at Carfin near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. John Bosco, Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, born 16 August 1815, died 31 January 1888, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest of the Latin Church, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the effects of industrialization and urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method that became known as the Salesian Preventive System.



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Old Photograph Boys Sunday School Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of boys at Sunday School in Glasgow, Scotland.



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