Old Photograph Forestry Worker Highland Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a forestry worker near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. Perthshire can claim to be the birthplace of modern Scottish forestry. In the early 17th century, Sir Duncan Campbell began planting up the bare slopes of Drummond Hill, near Kenmore. 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 Steam Train Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in Dundee, Scotland. The station here is the rebuilt Dundee Tay Bridge railway station, which had been built by the North British Railway in 1878 as part of the Tay Rail Bridge project. Until the 1960s, other stations in Dundee included Dundee West, the Caledonian Railway station for Perth, Perthshire, and Dundee East station on the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway. It is located in cutting at the south end of Camperdown tunnel, which passes beneath the town's former docks and required permanent pumping to keep dry. The station is consequently sited below sea level. 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 Farmers Wife Aberfeldy Highland Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a farmers wife near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Children Picnic St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children at a picnic in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Harbourmaster And Daughter Dysart Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Harbourmaster and his daughter in Dysart, Fife, Scotland. The first record of the town was made in the early 13th century, its initial role being to settle civil matters between the church and landowners. During the middle of the 15th century, trade with the Low Countries began for salt and coal exportation. In the 16th and 17th centuries, trade expanded to the Baltic Countries. Dysart acquired two nicknames: " Salt Burgh " and " Little Holland " as a result.



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