Old Photograph High Street Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of shops, horses and carts and people on the High Street in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. For most of the 19th century, the main industries in the town were flax spinning and linen weaving. In 1847 a canvas manufacturer, Michael Nairn, took out a licence on Frederick Walton's patent for the production of floorcloth, and opened a factory in nearby Pathhead. When the patent expired in 1876, Nairn and other floorcloth manufacturers began the manufacture of linoleum. Production of both floorcloth and linoleum occupied seven factories in the town by 1883, employing 1,300 people.



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Old Photograph Agricultural Show Cupar Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Agricultural Show in Cupar, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Kyle of Lochalsh Scotland

Old photograph of people and houses in Kyle of Lochalsh across from Isle of Skye, Scotland. A village on the North West coast of the Scottish Highlands. It is located on the Lochalsh peninsula, at the entrance to Loch Alsh, opposite the village of Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye. A ferry used to connect the two villages until it was replaced by the Skye Bridge, about a mile to the west, in 1995. Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is connected to Inverness by the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, built in 1897 to improve public transport to the north west of Scotland. The line ends on the water's edge, near where the ferry connection used to run. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photographs Bathgate Scotland

Old photograph of repairing a road in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. This Scottish town is by the M8 motorway 5 miles West of Livingston. Nearby towns are Armadale, Blackburn, Linlithgow, Livingston, West Calder and Whitburn.



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Old Photograph Hosiery Department Institution For The Blind Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of the Hosiery Department in the Institution For The Blind in Dundee, Scotland.



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