Old Photograph Chapelton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Chapelton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located approximately halfway between the towns of East Kilbride and Strathaven, on the A726. It resides in the former Parish of Glassford.



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Old Photograph Crofter Carrying Creel Basket Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter woman carrying a creel basket on the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. A Creel is a wicker basket usually used for carrying fish or peats. It is also the cage used to catch lobsters and other crustaceans. In modern times it has come to mean a range of types of wicker baskets used by anglers or commercial fishermen to hold fish or other prey. The word is also found in agriculture and for some domestic baskets. In the North Sea herring fishing industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the creel was a basket used to measure the volume of a catch. The standard measure were creel which were made in officially approved volumes of one half and one quarter cran. A cran, Gaelic kræn, was a unit of capacity used for measuring fresh herring, equal to 37.5 imperial gallons.



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Old Photograph Professor University St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a Professor at the University in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Pittodrie House Scotland

Old photograph of Pittodrie House by Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house is located in the foothills of the impressive and foreboding hill of Bennachie was once the property of the Erskine family, and incorporates an old tower house. This building was extended many centuries later when becoming a hotel. The former nursery of the house is said to be haunted by a ghost, which is believed to be the spirit of a servant. Legend has it that this ladies duties included looking after the children and in 1640 she died after falling down the staircase during a fire.



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Old Photograph Cambusmichael Church Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Cambusmichael Church located three miles North of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. There was a church here in the 12th century which may have gone out of use when the parish of Cambusmichael was united with St Martins at some time before 1693. It was ruinous by 1711 when an account states that there was another small ruinous chapel beside it in the burial ground; there are no visible remains of this latter building.



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