Old Photograph Hampden Park Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of April 2nd, 1910 Football Match between Scotland and England at Hampden in Glasgow, Scotland. Queen's Park, the oldest club in Scottish football, have played at a venue called Hampden Park since October 1873. The first Hampden Park was overlooked by a nearby terrace named after Englishman John Hampden, who fought for the roundheads in the English Civil War. Queen's Park played at the first Hampden Park for 10 years beginning with a Scottish Cup tie on 25 October 1873. The ground hosted the first Scottish Cup Final, in 1874, and a Scotland v England match in 1878. The club moved to the second Hampden Park, 150 yards from the original, because the Cathcart District Railway planned a new line through the site of the ground's western terrace. A lawn bowling club at the junction of Queen's Drive and Cathcart Road marks the site of the first Hampden. The second Hampden Park opened in October 1884. It became a regular home to the Scottish Cup Final, but Celtic Park shared some of the big matches including the Scotland v England fixture in 1894. Hampden Park was the biggest stadium in the world from its opening in 1903 until it was surpassed by the Maracanã, a football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1950.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Arisaig Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Arisaig, Lochaber, Scotland. Arisaig station opened on 1 April 1901. The station was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There is a siding on the south side of the line, east of the Down platform. Opened by the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station is on the West Highland Line, 34 miles west of Fort William on the way to Mallaig.



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Old Photograph Cutting Peat Loch Druidibeag South Uist Scotland

Old photograph of crofters Cutting Peat by Loch Druidibeag, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. North Uist is the tenth largest Scottish island and the thirteenth largest island surrounding Great Britain. It has an area of 117 square miles, slightly smaller than South Uist. North Uist is connected by causeways to Benbecula via Grimsay, to Berneray, and to Baleshare. With the exception of the south east, the island is very flat, and covered with a patchwork of peat bogs, low hills and lochans, with more than half the land being covered by water.


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Old Photograph Herring Gutters Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of herring gutters at the harbour in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. It is situated by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself " the whisky capital of the world ". However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most distilleries going out of business, Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in 1748, near Campbeltown. He was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Duncan McNab McEachran was born on 27 October 1841 in Campbeltown. He was a Canadian veterinarian and academic. He was the son of David McEachran and Jean Blackney, McEachran graduated from the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 1861 and received his license to practice from Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In 1862, he emigrated to Canada West, settling in Woodstock. In 1863, he helped set up, along with primary founder Andrew Smith, the Upper Canada Veterinary School, later the Ontario Veterinary College. McEachran was a staff member but he considered the admission standards and academic requirements to be inadequate. He left after three years, moving to Montreal. In 1867, Smith and McEachran again joined forces to publish the first veterinary textbook in Canada for farmers, The Canadian horse and his diseases. He died on 13 October 1924.



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Old Photograph Newark Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Newark Castle in the valley of the Yarrow Water three miles west of Selkirk, Borders, Scotland. This Scottish castle was granted to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Wigtown around 1423. It was incomplete at this time and work continued until about 1475. After the fall of the Black Douglases the castle was held by the crown, and in 1473 it was given to Margaret of Denmark, wife of King James III. The castle was altered for Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch at the end of the 17th century. It was visited by Sir Walter Scott and William and Dorothy Wordsworth in 1831. The castle is believed to be haunted by the souls of women and children murdered by brutal soldiers at the site, who are heard each year on September 13th.



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