Old Photograph Craiglockhart War Hospital Scotland

Old photograph of Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. The estate in which this building is located was sold in 1773 to Alexander Monro, who was second of three generations to be Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. It stayed in the Monro family for more than a hundred years. In 1877, the estate became the property of the Craiglockhart Hydropathic Company, who set about building a hydropathic institute. The Hydropathic was built in the Italian style. Craiglockhart remained as a hydropathic, until the advent of the First World War. Between 1916 and 1919 the building was used as a military psychiatric hospital for the treatment of shell shocked officers. The building then became a convent for the Society of the Sacred Heart, before serving as a Catholic teacher training college. It then passed to the then Napier College, and was used by that institution and its successor, Napier Polytechnic; thus it is now part of Edinburgh Napier University. Much of the old building has been retained, and an extensive new wing has been built behind it to house the Business School. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. 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 Harbour Troon Scotland

Old photograph of boats in the harbour in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland. Troon Harbour played a notable part in the development of the town for many years. It was home to the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, which constructed many vessels for worldwide customers but mainly small passenger and various merchant vessels. The fishing fleet from Ayr moved to Troon Harbour and a revitalisation of the abandoned section of the harbour started. An approach road was constructed to connect to a ferry terminal which operates a service to Ireland. The Seacat high speed ferry service briefly operated from Troon Harbour but has now ended. Troon Harbour is now a fishing port, yachting marina, seasonal passenger ferry port and Ro-Ro ferry terminal for timber and containers. The shipbuilding industry at Troon Harbour ended in 2000. 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 Langwell House Scotland

Old photograph of Langwell House in Caithness, Scotland. The modern estate of Langwell was formerly known as Berriedale, and was possessed by two families of Sutherlands .Those of the first family, descended from John Begg, son of Nicolas, Earl of Sutherland, were known as " Sutherlands of Berriedale ", and the other family, whose immediate progenitors were the Sutherlands of Forse, descended from Kenneth, a younger brother of John Begg, were known as the " Sutherlands of Langwell ". Berriedale originally belonged to the Cheynes, and it, together with Dove House, in Morayshire, was acquired by the Sutherlands through the marriage of one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Ranald, " Lord Cheyne ", to Nicolas Sutherland, brother to William, Earl of Sutherland. From the Sutherlands the lands came, also by marriage, into the family of Oliphant; and they were thereafter acquired by the Caithness family of Sutherlands. In the seventeenth century the estate then known as Langwell was acquired from Lord Breadalbane by William McIan or Sutherland, grandson of Alexander Sutherland of Forse. In 1451 there was a William Sutherland of Berriedale, the son and apparent heir of Alexander Sutherland of Duffus, and whose second son, William, was laird of Quarrelwood. Quarrelwood had also a son, William, who was fifth Baron of Duffus, and his son and heir, William, was killed at Thurso in 1529, that being the same year in which, according to Calder, William Sutherland of Berriedale was slain in Orkney. But even if there really had been a William Sutherland of Berriedale in the Orkney expedition, he was not an ancestor of the Sinclair Sutherlands of Brabster, for, beyond question, their Sutherland connection is derived from the Forse branch of the Sutherlands of Langwell. 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 Ledgowan Lodge Scotland

Old photograph of Ledgowan Lodge in Achnasheen in Wester Ross, Scotland. The village of Achnasheen is situated on the River Bran at the junction of two roads built by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford. Despite the small size of the village, Achnasheen is also the name of a postal district which covers several much larger communities including Kinlochewe, Poolewe and Laide. This dates from the time when the village railway station, built in 1870, was an important stop on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving a large area of Wester Ross. The railway still operates but all freight and mail, and most passengers, now travel by road. 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 Lethen House Scotland

Old photograph of Lethen House near Nairn, Moray, Scotland. This 18th century Scottish mansion house was the home of Alexander Brodie of Lethen. Descended from the Brodies of Brodie, Alexander Brodie’s family had been settled at Lethen since 1630. In 1734 his chief, Alexander Brodie of Brodie, offered to bring him into Parliament for Nairnshire. But when his cousin, John Campbell of Cawdor, stood for Nairnshire, he joined John and Duncan Forbes in supporting Campbell. Returned for Nairnshire in 1735 at a by-election caused by Campbell’s choosing to sit for Pembrokeshire, England, he voted with the Administration on the Spanish convention in 1739 and the place bill in 1740. During the Forty five rebellion he supported the Government, raising troops to join General Cope’s army.2 He died 28 April 1770. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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