Old Photograph Putting The Shot Highland Games Ballater Scotland

Old photograph of Putting the Shot at the Highland Games in Ballater, Royal Deeside, Scotland.



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Old Photographs High Street Aberlour Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and people on the High Street in Aberlour located twelve miles South of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. The full name of this Scottish village is Charlestown of Aberlour. The town was granted its feu charter in 1814 and began to operate its own markets. Whisky was a major industry even then and once the 1823 licensing act was passed and a longer warehousing process introduced it began to take on the more mature characteristics that we are familiar with today.



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Old Photograph Gate To Falcon Hall Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the gate to Falcon Hall in Morningside, Edinburgh, Scotland. Falcon Hall was a large mansion home in Morningside. It was built in 1780 by William Coulter, a wealthy hosier and baillie who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1808 until his death in 1810. The property was acquired in the early 19th century by Alexander Falconar, a merchant of the East India Company. Dr John George Bartholomew, a co-founder of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and owner of the famous map making company, John Bartholomew & Son Limited was a tenant of the house before 1908. The entrance to the property stood opposite to the old school. The pillars of the gateway were each surmounted by a falcon, one each side of the gates, painted in brown and gold. The gates were removed in 1874 and reassembled to form the entrance of Edinburgh Zoo in Corstorphine.



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Old Photograph Knocknagael Boar Stone Scotland

Old photograph of Knocknagael Pictish Boar Stone, Inverness, Scotland. Picts are assumed to have been the descendants of the Caledonii and other tribes that were mentioned by Roman historians or on the world map of Ptolemy. Pictland, also called Pictavia by some sources, gradually merged with the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata to form the Kingdom of Alba. Alba then expanded, absorbing the Brittonic kingdom of Strathclyde and Northumbrian Lothian, and by the 11th century the Pictish identity had been subsumed into the Scots amalgamation of peoples.



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Old Photograph Castlebay Scotland

Old photograph of houses, cottages, car and people in Castlebay on the Island of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The village developed into a prominent herring fishing port in the 19th century, and today it serves as the main settlement on Barra.


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