Old Photograph Royal Hotel Milnathort Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal Hotel in Milnathort, Perthshire, Scotland. Located on the A91, the main Stirling to St Andrews, Fife, road, Milnathort was developed as a market town with cotton weavers and makers of tartan shawls and plaids.



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Old Photographs St John Street Creetown Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, people and Ellangowan Hotel on St John Street in Creetown near the head of Wigtown Bay, 18 miles Weest of Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village dates from 1785, and became a burgh of barony in 1792. Sir Walter Scott laid part of the scene of Guy Mannering in this neighborhood. Dr Thomas Brown, the metaphysician, born 1778, died 1820, was a native of the parish in which Creetown lies.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Torphins Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Deeside Railway line, used by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert when they travelled by Royal carriage to Ballater, passed through this area until 1966.



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Old Photographs Airth Scotland

Old photograph of stables, Post Office and houses in Airth located six miles North of Falkirk, Scotland. The village has a long association with the River Forth and it was on the banks of the river that a royal dockyard was created. It was used during the years 1507 to 1513 in the reign of King James IV to build ships of war at the pool of Airth. History reveals that a primitive form of dry dock was used. Strong timbers would be used to form the “stocks” for the vessel and a clay dam would prevent the river from penetrating the working area. When the ship was ready, the dam would be breached, at high tide, to enable it to float out into the river. The shipping fleet was destroyed in 1745 by Bonnie Prince Charlie when some ship to shore skirmishes took place by batteries set by Jacobites to drive off the government ships. A number of smaller vessels from the village were burned by loyalist troops and that proved damaging to Airth's subsequent development as a port. However, as late as 1820 sloops built in the shipyards at Airth were among those recorded as operating in the middle of the Forth.

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Old Photograph Glenramskill Scotland

Old photograph of Glenramskill hamlet near Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. There used to be a Scottish whisky distillery here in 1825 which was sold to Robert Relston in 1837. The distillery was finally closed in 1852.



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