Old Photograph Town Hall Dysart Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the town hall in Dysart, Fife, Scotland. This was once used as a public weigh in and measures house; guards house and eventually a prison built as an extension in 1617. The building was also known to keep explosives. When this was occupied by Oliver Cromwell's troops in 1651, one of them accidentally dropped a match into a barrel of gunpowder causing the roof to be blown apart. The upper part of the building was rebuilt between 1733 and 1734 with an ashlar bell chamber and a stone ogile roof.



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Old Photograph Rock Climber Highlands Scotland

Old photograph of a rock climber in the Highlands of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Renfield St Stephen's Parish Church Glasgow

Tour Scotland video of of photographs of Renfield St Stephen's Parish Church on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Designed as an Independent Chapel by London architect J T Emmett in 1852 in Decorated Gothic style. Built in beautiful polished Kenmure sandstone with tall clerestoried nave supported on clustered columns with finely moulded capitals each with carved musical angels. Windows by Norman Macdougall 1905, depicting the four Evangelists, and representations of Christian vertues, flanking Christ in Glory, and John Clark. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Prince Albert Statue George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of the Prince Albert statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Prince Albert, born 1819, died, 1861, married Queen Victoria in 1840 and together they purchased the Balmoral estate in 1852. He was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of twenty he married his first cousin, Queen Victoria, with whom he would ultimately have nine children. Initially he felt constrained by his position as consort, which did not confer any power or duties upon him, but he soon began to lend his support to many public causes, such as educational reform and the worldwide abolition of slavery, and took on the responsibilities of running the Queen's household, estates and office. The statue was erected five years after his death.



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Tour Scotland Photograph James Watt Statue George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of the James Watt statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Watt, born 1736, died 1819, was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, born in Greenock. He designed the first economical steam engine in 1769 and patented an improved version which had a separate condenser to reduce the consumption of fuel and steam. He came up with the idea of the condenser while hiking on Glasgow Green one Sunday in 1765. The unit of electrical power was named in his honour in 1882. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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