Old Photograph Lawn Bowling Green Peebles Scotland

Old photograph of the Lawn Bowling Green and Park Hotel in Peebles in the Borders of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Victoria Terrace Crieff Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Victoria Terrace in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. Crieff was granted a charter in 1218 and became a Burgh of Barony in 1672 under the authority of the Drummond family.


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Old Photograph Scottish Horse Drill Hall Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the Scottish Horse Drill Hall in Blair Atholl near Blair Castle, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The Blair Atholl drill hall, now in use as a village hall was designed in 1906 by J Macintyre Henry. In 1914 the hall was the base for "A" Squadron, 1st Scottish Horse and drill station for "G" Company, 6th battalion Black Watch. At the outbreak of war there were seven Black Watch battalions: in addition to the Regular 1st and 2nd Battalions and 3rd, Special Reserve, Battalion there were a further four Territorial Battalions which had become part of the Regiment in 1908, including the 6th Perthshire. The Territorial battalions had been mobilised at the start of the war but the 6th, along with all the Territorial battalions and some of the new Service Battalions of the Black Watch, were not engaged until 1915 in battles along the Western Front. A total of six battalions fought at Festubert in May where two Victoria Crosses were won by members of the Regiment.



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Old Photograph Dugald Buchanan Monument Kinloch Rannoch Scotland

Old photograph of the Dugald Buchanan monument in Kinloch Rannoch in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The church is All Saints Scottish Episcopal Church. The obelisk is not a war memorial, but is inscribed: " In memory of Dugald Buchanan the Rannoch schoolmaster, evangelist and sacred poet, died 24th June 1768 ". The memorial is dated 1875. Dugald Buchanan born 1716 was a teacher and an evangelist, preaching at large open air meetings, which upwards of 500 people attended. He showed great courage as he persuaded the 'wild men' of Rannoch to give up their lawlessness and savage ways. He and his wife taught them new trades and crafts. They worked with James Small, formerly an Ensign in Lord Loudoun's Regiment, who had been appointed by the Commissioners for the Forfeited Estates to run the Rannoch estates which had been seized from the clan chieftains who had supported the Jacobites. The tiny hamlet at the east end of Loch Rannoch, now known as Kinloch Rannoch, was enlarged and settled, mainly by soldiers being discharged from the army, but also by displaced crofters. Buchanan and minister James Stuart of Killin, sponsored by the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SSPCK), carried out the first translation of the New Testament into Gaelic. Their translation, begun in 1755, was completed and published in 1767. Following the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion of 1745, the Gaelic language had been proscribed, and all schools in the Highlands were required to teach only in English. Buchanan and Stuart's translation was significant in that it was accompanied by a shift by the SSPCK and other educational authorities back to Gaelic as the language of education of Highland Scottish children. This played a major part in promoting literacy in the language.

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Old Photograph Balchrick Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Balchrick on the north east shore of Lairg, Sutherland, Scotland. Balchrick lies entirely within the estate of John Muir Trust's Sandwood Estate.



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