Old Photograph Mills Cupar Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Mills in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish town’s industrial development was primarily based on the products of its fertile agricultural hinterland. The weekly corn market held in the town supplied two corn mills and two barley mills, as well as flour mills and breweries, all reflecting the grain growing capacity of the area. The mills used water power from the River Eden, to the south of the town. Another important industry which also used the water power of the Eden for its mills, was flax spinning. The weaving of the flax into linen, however, was based on a home industry numbering 600 weavers in 1845.



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Old Photograph Post Office Kinross Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the Post Office in Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland. Kinross was the home of Flight Sergeant George Thompson whose posthumous Victoria Cross in 1945 is often cited as the best merited of the entire air war. He was the wireless operator in a Lancaster of No. 9 Squadron on a dawn raid against the Dortmund-Ems Canal when the plane was struck by a salvo of two 88mm shells.



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Old Photograph School Newburgh Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the school in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Leadhills Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Elvanfoot railway station was on the Caledonian Railway main line from Glasgow to the south. A branch from there ran through Leadhills to Wanlockhead and operated until 1939. Part of the route has been reused by the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway.




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Old Photograph Sidnish Loch Eport South Uist Scotland

Old photograph of a crofters thatched cottage in Sidnish by Loch Eport, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. After the Norse occupation of the Western Isles the MacRuairidhs controlled the island. North Uist was granted to Macdonald of Sleat in 1495, and remained in possession of the Macdonalds of Sleat until 1855, when it was sold to Sir John Powlett Orde. Today the island is owned by the Granville family through the North Uist Trust.



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