Old Photograph Crosslee Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Crosslee village on the bank of the River Gryffe near Houston North East of Paisley, Scotland. Crosslee developed as a small community around a cotton mill, which opened in 1793, closing due to fire damage in 1858. A factory used for the production of cordite fuses during the First World War existed within the village, and was demolished in 1985. A further mill building still exists beside the river, having been redeveloped to provide office space.



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Old Photograph Floating Dock Invergordon Scotland

Old photograph of the floating dock in Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Built by Cammell Laird in 1912, this dock was moved to Invergordon on the 6th September 1914 so that there was a repair dock facility capable of taking Dreadnoughts battleships in the North, pending completion of Rosyth dockyard in Fife.



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Old Photograph Doctor John Leyden Cottage Denholm Scotland

Old photograph of the thatched cottage in which Doctor John Leyden was born in Denholm, located between Jedburgh and Hawick, Borders Scotland. John Leyden, born 8 September 1775, died 28 August 1811, was a Scottish orientalist. He was born in Denholm on the River Teviot. His father, a shepherd, had contrived to send him to Edinburgh University to study for the ministry. He was a diligent but somewhat haphazard student, apparently reading everything except theology, for which he seems to have had no taste. Though he completed his divinity course, and in 1798 was licensed to preach from the presbytery of St Andrews, Fife, it soon became clear that the pulpit was not his vocation. In 1803, he sailed for Madras, and took his place in the general hospital there. He was promoted to be naturalist to the commissioners going to survey Mysore, and in 1807, his knowledge of the languages of India procured him an appointment as professor of Hindustani at Calcutta; this he soon after resigned for a judgeship, and that again to be a commissioner in the court of requests in 1805, a post which required a familiarity with several Eastern languages. In 1811, Leyden joined Lord Minto in the expedition to Java. Having entered a library which was said to contain many Eastern manuscripts, without having the place aired, he was seized with Batavian fever, possibly malaria or dengue, and died, after three days' illness, on 28 August 1811. He was buried on the island, underneath a small firefly colony, which remains as his tombstone to this day.



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Old Photograph Scottish Soldiers Loch Morlich Scotland

Old photograph of Scottish Soldiers on a boat on Loch Morlich near Aviemore, South of Inverness, Scotland. During the Second World War the area around Loch Morlich was used as a commando school. In particular it was used as a training area for the Kompani Linge, the Norwegian Independent Army Company, trained by the British Special Operations Executive because of the close resemblance of the area, both in landscape and climate, to Norway.



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Old Photograph Pictish Stone Craigmyle Aberdeenshire Scotland

Old photograph of the Pictish Symbol Stone at Craigmyle near Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This stone has a notched rectangle above a tightly coiled serpent.



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