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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Old Photograph Crofter Spinning Wheel Balmacara Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter with a spinning wheel outside a cottage in Balmacara village on the north shore of Loch Alsh near Kyle of Lochalsh, across from Isle of Skye, Scotland. 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 Bernera Barracks Glenelg Scotland

Old photograph of Bernera Barracks in Glenelg near the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Bernera Barracks were constructed between 1717 and 1723 as part of a campaign by the British government to subdue the local population which had risen up in arms in the Jacobite Rising of 1715, and which would do so again in 1745. The barracks were built by Sir Patrick Strachan. Some of the stone used in the construction was taken from a nearby broch. The Government troops who were garrisoned here during the Jacobite uprisings were also intended to control the crossing to Skye. The barracks are now in ruins, a state which they appear to have entered by the close of the eighteenth century, shortly after the withdrawal of troops in 1797.



You can still sail over the sea to Skye on the ferry from Glenelg to Kylerhea on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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