Old Photographs High Street Dumfries Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people, buildings and cars on the High Street in Dumfries, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Esplanade Gourock Scotland

Old photograph of people walking on the esplanade in Gourock, Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. Charlie Barr, born Charles Barr in Gourock, in 1864, was an accomplished sailing skipper who three times captained winning America's Cup yachts. As a young man he was apprenticed as a grocer before working as a commercial fisherman. In 1884, he took a job with his older brother John, delivering a sailing yacht, Clara, to America. Clara's racing success was such that in 1887, John was selected to skipper the Scottish challenger, Thistle, the representative of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club; Charlie served as a member of the crew. Thistle was soundly defeated by Volunteer. In the process, however, the brothers Barr were introduced to Nathanael Herreshoff, and Charlie Barr's yachting career was launched. Captain Charles Barr was skipper of the yacht Columbia in 1899 and defeated Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock. Two years later, in 1901, Charlie Barr was again at the helm against a Lipton sponsored yacht, Shamrock II. In 1903, Barr was the captain of the winning yacht Reliance, one of the most famous racing yachts to be designed by Nathanael Herreshoff. He is best known for setting the record for the fastest crossing by a sailing yacht of the Atlantic Ocean on the schooner Atlantic in the 1905 Kaiser's Cup Transatlantic Race. Barr died whilst visiting Southampton, England on 24 January 1911; he is buried in Southampton Old Cemetery. The distance from Glasgow and Paisley to Gourock is 28 miles.



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Old Photograph South Street Armadale West Lothian Scotland

Old photograph of a car, houses, and people on South Street in Armadale West Lothian, Scotland. Before the building of a new turnpike road between Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1786 the village of Armadale was little more than a rural farm community but its location at a main highway junction brought additional traffic and a toll house was built where the new road intersected with an existing road in the east of the estate. The estate comprising the lands of Barbauchlaw was sold to Sir William Honeyman in 1790 and upon his elevation to the bench in 1797 he took the title of Lord Armadale, from his mother's estate in Sutherland in the Highlands, and this name was then applied to the township.



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Old Photograph Soldier And Sister Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish soldier and his sister in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Landing Herring Wick Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen landing herring at the harbour in Wick, Scotland. Herring are forage fish which often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast. Herring has been a staple food source since at least 3000 B.C. There are numerous ways the fish is served and many regional recipes: eaten raw, fermented, pickled, or cured by other techniques, such as being smoked as kippers.



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