Old Photograph Avonbridge Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Avonbridge located seven miles South East of Falkirk, Falkirk is situated in the Forth Valley, almost midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Avonbridge was home to small scale open cast coal mining. The village also had a brickworks in the mid twentieth century which no longer exists. Nowadays the village is largely residential although Avonbridge is the base of operations for Stevenson Brothers a haulage company, whose bright orange heavy goods vehicles transport goods all over the United Kingdom. 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 Queen's Gardens St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart, people and buildings on Queen's Gardens street in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The original garden ground, in the centre of the ancient Royal Burgh, is on the site of the medieval Greyfriars monastery and this piece of land was granted to the community of St Andrews by Mary Queen of Scots on 17 April 1567, a few months before her forced abdication. 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 Auldgirth Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Auldgirth bridge in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish bridge over the River Nith was designed by David Henderson and built by William Stewart in 1781. This bridge carries the public road across the River Nith immediately South West of Auldgirth village. The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Closeburn and Keir. 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 St Leonards School St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of St Leonards School in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. St Leonards School, formerly St Leonards and St Katherines School, is an independent school, founded by the University of St Andrews in the nineteenth century. Dame Louisa Lumsden was appointed the School's first Headmistress in 1877. 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 Polmood House Scotland

Old photograph of Polmood house near Tweedsmuir in the Borders, Scotland. Polmood was for many centuries the centre of the Hunter family in the lowlands and the earliest record was a charter dated 1057 to Norman Hunter of Polmood. The house was the in the possession of the Hunter family from at least as early as the second quarter of the 15th century until the end of the 18th century. By 1864, however, the house was completely ruinous and shortly afterwards it was rebuilt by Houston Mitchell, who had purchased the property in 1847. 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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