Old Photographs High Street Kingussie Scotland

Old photograph of cars, shops, buildings and people on the High Street in Kingussie, Scotland. A small town in the Highlands of Badenoch and Strathspey. It is located beside the A9 road 42 miles South of Inverness, 12 miles South of Aviemore, and 3 miles North of Newtonmore, which is its greatest rival in the game of shinty. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Elderly Married Couple Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of an elderly married couple in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old PhotographsHigh Street Kirriemuir Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people and buildings on the High Street in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Kirriemuir has a history of accused witches being on trial back in the 16th century. Many of the older buildings have a witches stone built in to ward off evil. it was an important centre of the jute trade. The playwright J.M. Barrie was born and buried here. Bon Scott of AC/DC was born in nearby Forfar and lived in Kirriemuir for a short time from 1947 until 1950 when his family emigrated to Australia. Actor David Niven claimed Kirriemuir as his birthplace. Three former residents of the town have won the Victoria cross, Captain Charles Lyell, Corporal Richard Burton and Private Charles Melvin, all during the first world war.




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Old Photographs High Street Laurencekirk Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on the High Street in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. James Beattie was born on 25 October 1735 the youngest of six children of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk in the Mearns, and educated at Marischal, graduating in 1753. He became schoolmaster of the parish of Fordoun in 1753. He took the position of usher at the grammar-school of Aberdeen in 1758. In 1760, he was, to his surprise, appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy at Marischal College, later part of Aberdeen University, as a result of the influence exerted by his close friend, Robert Arbuthnot of Haddo. Beattie was prominent in arguing against the institution of slavery. Beattie co-founded the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1786. Beattie underwent much domestic sorrow in his later years, which broke down his own health and spirits. His wife, Mary née Dunn, whom he had married in 1767, went mad and was committed to a Musselburgh asylum. His two promising sons both died: James Hay in 1790 aged 22 from nervous atrophy, and Montagu in 1796, a promising poet aged 18 after a short illnes. He relinquished his duties at Marischal in 1797.That year he became afflicted with rheumatism, and in 1799 he had a stroke of palsy. He died in Aberdeen in 1803.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Eyemouth Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train the the railway station in Eyemouth, Scotland. The Eyemouth Railway was a three mile single track branch railway in the Borders, Scotland, running from Burnmouth on the East Coast Main Line to Eyemouth with no intermediate stations. The line was authorised on 18 August 1884, work started in July 1889, and it opened on 13 April 1891. The line became part of the North British Railway in 1900. The line closed from 13 August 1948 to 29 June 1949 after being damaged by the flooding of the Eye Water. The line closed on 5 February 1962. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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