Old Photograph Fishwives Shelling Mussels Stonehaven Scotland

Old photograph of fishwives shelling Mussels in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. According to legend, mussels have been cultivated in Europe since 1235 when Patrick Walton, an Irish sailor shipwrecked on the French coast, hung up nets in order to catch fish and found that mussels attaching themselves to the poles supporting the nets.



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Old Photograph Lomond Road Freuchie Fife Scotland

Old photograph of people outside thatched cottages and house on Lomond Road in Freuchie, Fife, Scotland. Freuchie was once used by the Royal family as a place of banishment from the Court when it was in nearby Falkland Palace. The Scots saying " awa tae Freuchie an eat mice " was thought to come from this time.





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Old Photograph Church And Yew Tree Fortingall Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the church and Yew tree in Fortingall near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. Standing on an ancient Christian site, the current church was built in 1900 to designs by W Dunn and R Watson, the successors to James M MacLaren who redeveloped the village for Sir Donald Currie. The Fortingall Yew, close by the church, is believed to be about 5000 years old. The Reverend Duncan Macara, minister for 50 years in the 18th Century, is buried beneath the Yew.



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Old Photograph Blacksmith Abernyte Scotland

Old photograph of the Blacksmith in Abernyte, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located two miles North West of the former Inchture railway station, and around seven miles West of Dundee. Blacksmithing began with the Iron Age, when primitive man first began making tools from iron. The Iron Age began when some primitive person noticed that a certain type of rock yielded iron when heated by the coals of a very hot campfire. In short, we can say that blacksmithing, the art of crafting that crude metal into a useable implement, has been around for a long, long time.





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Old Photograph Kyles Of Bute Scotland

Old photograph of a yacht sailing in the Kyles of Bute, Argyll, Scotland. The Kyles of Bute are a narrow sea channel which separates the northern end of the Isle of Bute from the Cowal peninsula, part of the Scottish mainland. 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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