Old Photograph Cadets HMS Caledonia Rosyth Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Cadets at HMS Caledonia in Rosyth, Fife, Scotland. HMS Caledonia was a shore based Royal Navy training establishment located within the naval dockyard at Rosyth, and was responsible for artificer apprentice training from 1937 to 1985, with many thousands of young men said to have undergone training at the establishment. Blog post 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 Crofter Carrying Peat Basket Isle Of Lewis Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter carrying a basket of Peat on the road to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Lewis has a Presbyterian tradition and a rich history. It was once part of the Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles. Today, life is very different from elsewhere in Scotland, with Sabbath observance, the Gaelic language and peat cutting retaining more importance than elsewhere. Lewis has a rich cultural heritage as can be seen from its myths and legends as well as the local literary and musical traditions. Blog post 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 Egg Hunting Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of hunting for eggs on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. For a population living in some of the harshest conditions in the British Isles, the eggs and the birds were an essential source of vitamin D and other essential nutrients. Gannet hunting was also an essential survival skill which gave the community a measure of independence, while gannet numbers were soaring. Blog post 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 Dalswinton House Scotland

Old photograph of Dalswinton House near Dumfries, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was commissioned by Patrick Miller, born 1731, died 1815, sometime after 1785 when he bought the Dalswinton Estate. Miller, a banker, entrepreneur and inventor, became a friend and landlord of the poet Robert Burns whose Ellisland Farm was on the Dalswinton Estate. Blog post 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 Photographs Whale Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of cutting up a whale at Ronas Voe, Shetland Islands, Scotland. A sizeable inlet in the northwest of the Shetland Mainland, the most substantial in the district of Northmavine, Ronas Voe penetrates that peninsula for 6 miles almost dividing it in two as it approaches Quey Firth to the east. Ronas Voe opens into the North Atlantic between The Faither and Ketligill Head. Two Norwegian owned whaling stations operated in Ronas Voe between 1903 and the outbreak of the First World War, when the catching of whales in British waters was suspended on the orders of the Admiralty. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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