Old Photograph Lawn Bowling Green Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Lawn Bowling Green and Tennis Courts in Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. 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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Old Photograph Salmon Leaping Falls Of Tummel Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of salmon leaping at the Falls of Tummel on the River Tummel near Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. 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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Old Photograph Main Street Lybster Scotland

Old photograph of houses and people on the Main Street in Lybster, Caithness, Scotland. Lybster is a village on the east coast of Caithness. It was once a big herring fishing port, but has declined in recent years, due to problems in the industry. The Sinclairs of Lybster have long roots running back to the Sinclair earls who ruled Caithness that was once a much larger area taking in much of Sutherland. Tracing further back the family has connections to the Norwegian earls who controlled the north of Scotland for centuries. Lybster railway station was part of the Wick and Lybster Railway. It opened on 1 July 1903. The movie, The Silver Darlings, from Neil Gunn's book, was shot here. 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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Old Photograph Mill And Cottage Isle of Gigha Scotland

Old photograph of a Mill and cottage on the Isle of Gigha, a small island off the West coast of Kintyre, in Argyll, Scotland. Gigha has a long history, having been inhabited continuously since prehistoric times. It may have had an important role during the Kingdom of Dalriada and is the ancestral home of Clan MacNeill. It fell under the control of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles before becoming incorporated into modern Scotland and saw a variety of conflicts during the medieval period. The population of Gigha peaked at over 700 in the eighteenth century, but during the 20th century the island had numerous owners, which caused various problems in developing the island. By the beginning of the 21st century resident numbers had fallen to only 98. However a community buy out has transformed the island, which now has a growing population and a variety of new commercial activities to complement farming and tourism.



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Old Photograph Cromwell Street Stornoway Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people, buildings and horses and carts on Cromwell Street in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Notable people born in Stornoway include; Colonel Colin Mackenzie, born 1754, died 8 May 1821, who was a Scottish army officer in the British East India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist. He surveyed southern India, making use of local interpreters and scholars to study religion, oral histories, inscriptions and other evidence initially out of personal interest and later as a surveyor. He was ordered to survey the Mysore region shortly after the British victory over Tipu Sultan in 1799 and produced the first maps of the region along with illustrations of the landscape and notes on archaeological landmarks. His collections consisting of thousands of manuscripts, inscriptions, translations, coins and paintings were acquired after his death by the India Office Library and are an important source for the study of Indian history. Sir Alexander Mackenzie, or MacKenzie, born 1764, died 12 March 1820, who was a Scottish explorer. He is known for his overland crossing of what is now Canada to reach the Pacific Ocean in 1793. This was the first east to west crossing of North America north of Mexico and preceded the Lewis and Clark expedition by 10 years.





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