Old Photograph Craigard Tearooms Arrochar Scotland

Old photograph of Craigard Tearooms in Arrochar, Scotland. Arrochar is a Scottish village located near the head of Loch Long in Argyll and Bute. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is overlooked by a group of mountains called the Arrochar Alps. For over five centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane and before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line and native to their Highland homeland of tall peaks and deep lochs just above the waist of Scotland. The settlement was a key target for Viking raiders who took their boats two miles overland to Tarbet to attack the unprotected inland settlements at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs. 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 Bridge Ballanoch Scotland

Old photograph of the bridge and cottages at Bellanoch located on the South West side of the Crinan Canal, Argyll, Scotland. The 9 mile long Crinan Canal connects the village of Ardrishaig on Loch Gilp with the Sound of Jura, providing a navigable route between the Clyde and the Inner Hebrides. The canal was originally built for commercial sailing vessels and, later, Clyde puffers to travel between the industrialized region around Glasgow to the West Highland villages and islands. Now it is largely used by leisure craft.



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Old Photograph Ardeneden Garden Scotland

Old photograph of people in the gardens at Ardeneden near Tighnabruaich, Kyles of Bute, Argyll, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Promenade Joppa Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of people on the Promenade in Joppa a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. Joppa is now largely residential, but salt was once produced from sea water by evaporation at Joppa Pans. Practically nothing remains of the industrial buildings. On 16 October 1939 the German Luftwaffe made a daylight air raid up the Forth to bomb British battleships, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Mohawk and HMS Southampton, at Rosyth across the Firth of Forth in Fife. This was the first daylight air raid on Britain. Houses in Morton Street, Joppa, were damaged as a result of the bombing. The German pilots shot down during the raid were buried, following a ceremony at St Philip's Church, in nearby Portobello Cemetery which lies on Milton Road East. They were the first enemy casualties of the Second World War to be buried on British soil. 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 Drylaw Crescent Blackhall Scotland

Old photograph of cottages on Drylaw Crescent in Blackhall a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland.



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