Old Photograph Crofters Highlands Scotland

Old photograph of Crofters in the Highlands of Scotland. The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. Before the 19th century the Highlands was home to a much larger population, but due to a combination of factors including the outlawing of the traditional Highland way of life following the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the infamous Highland Clearances, and mass migration to urban areas during the Industrial Revolution, the area is now one of the most sparsely populated in Europe.



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Old Photographs Stags Head Hotel Golspie Scotland

Old photograph of the Stags Head Hotel in Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Caolis Tiree Scotland

Old photograph of Caolis on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Kirkton Street Carluke Scotland

Old photograph of houses, car and children on Kirkton Street in Carluke located four miles South East of Wishaw in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town was chartered as a Royal Burgh in 1662. Carluke expanded during through the industrial age, with work involving corn milling, cotton weaving, coal mining and the manufacture of bricks, glass, confectionery and jam.



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Tour Scotland Video Tossing The Caber Highland Games Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland video of tossing the Caber at the Highland Games at Robbie's Park, Scotland Terrace, Newburgh, on ancestry visit to Fife, Scotland. The caber toss is a traditional Scottish athletic event in which competitors toss a large tapered pole called a " caber ".It is usually 19 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds. The caber derives from the Gaelic word " cabar " or " kaber " which refers to a wooden beam. It is said to have developed from the need for highlanders from Scottish Clans to toss logs across narrow streams or chasms in order to cross them

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