Old Photographs Victoria Street Craigellachie Moray Scotland

Old photograph of cyclists, car, houses and people on Victoria Street in Craigellachie near Aberlour located twelve miles South of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. Craigellachie, British Columbia, Canada, is named after the Scottish village and is the place where the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven in November 1885. Craigellachie has two malt whisky distilleries, Craigellachie and The Macallan, and is home to the Speyside Cooperage. Blog post 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 Townhead Street Lockerbie Scotland

Old photograph of children, a horse and cart, shops, houses, cottages and church on Townhead Street in Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish town is located approximately 75 miles from from Glasgow, and 20 miles from the border with England. The town came to international attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight. Blog post 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 Photograph Crofters Thatched Cottage Near Fort Augustus Scotland

Old photograph of a crofters thatch cottage near Fort Augustus, Highland, Scotland. In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising in 1715, General Wade built a fort, taking from 1729 until 1742, which was named after the Duke of Cumberland. Wade had planned to build a town around the new barracks and call it Wadesburgh. The settlement grew, and eventually took the name of Fort Augustus. The fort was captured by the Jacobites in April 1745, just prior to the Battle of Culloden.



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Old Photograph Ferry To Isle Of Skye Kyle of Lochalsh Scotland

Old photograph of the ferry to Isle of Skye at the hotel in Kyle of Lochalsh, across from Isle of Skye, Scotland. Kyle of Lochalsh is 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. Blog post 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 Photograph Glen Strae Argyll, Scotland

Old photograph of Glen Strae near Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland. The Clan Gregor held lands in Glen Orchy, Glenlochy and Glenstrae. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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