Tour Scotland Video Sunday Golfers 18th Green Old Golf Course St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of golfers putting on the 18th Green of the old golf course on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Golf is rarely played on Sunday on this course, but this was local Clubs Gold Medal tournament. The Gold Medal, which was presented by Club member John Murray Belshes, was first played for in 1806.

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Tour Scotland Video Building Spectator Stands For 2015 British Open St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of workers building spectator Stands for the 2015 British Open on the old golf course on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Saw Mills Grangemouth Scotland

Old photograph of Saw Mills in Grangemouth, South of Stirling, Scotland. Muirhead and Sons Limited Saw Mill and Brownlee and Company Limited, Caledonian Saw Mills, Earl's Road, Grangemouth. Grangemouth's original growth as a town relied mainly on its geographical location. Originally a bustling port, trade flowed through the town with the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal in the 18th century. Nowadays, the economy of Grangemouth is focused primarily on the large petrochemical industry of the area which includes the oil refinery, owned by Ineos, one of the largest of its kind in Europe. The town is twinned with La Porte, Indiana, USA.



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Old Photograph Laighmuir Dunlop Scotland

Old photograph of houses in Laighmuir, Dunlop in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Hugh Wylie born 16 November 1806 in Neilston, and died 14 October 1888 in Dunlop Village. He was the son of Alexander Wylie and Janet Clark. Margaret Brown born 15 August 1816 in Dunlop, Ayrshire, and died 5 May 1895 in Dunlop Village. She was the daughter of William Brown and Annie Bryce. Children of Margaret Brown and Hugh Wylie were; Jane Wylie born 1853 in Dunlop, Ayrshire, and died 11 July 1887 in Barrhead. She married James Cunningham 8 June 1877 in Dunlop, son of David Cunningham and Janet Smith. He was born 4 September 1855 in Stewarton, Ayrshire, and died 18 January 1916 in Barrhead. Hugh Wylie was born 27 February 1860 in Laighmuir, Dunlop. Mary Wylie was born in 1855. Alexander Wylie was born 5 March 1857 in Laighmuir, Dunlop, and died 25 July 1857 in Dunlop. Elizabeth Wylie was born in 1862. In 1791 Dunlop is recorded as having six masons, twelve weavers, three smiths, three shoemakers, four tailors and three inn keepers; by 1874 the village had 10 shoemakers, 8 masons, 6 weavers, 6 smiths, 5 wrights and 1 tailor, but no baker or flesher and the people's health was such that no surgeon was need or writer or lawyer.



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Old Photograph Broadstone Road Stranraer Scotland

Old photograph of houses and small fishing boat by the coast by Broadstone Road in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Around 1600, Stranraer had become the market town for western Wigtownshire. At about this time, Stranraer was reached by a military road built from Dumfries to allow easier access to Portpatrick for transportation of people to Ireland for the Plantation of Ulster. Stranraer became a royal burgh in 1617. The first harbour in Stranraer was built in the middle of the 18th century, with further port development in the 1820s. The arrival of the railway from Dumfries in 1861, which closed in 1965), which gave the shortest journey to/from London, England, established Stranraer as the area's main port. In 1862, the line was extended to serve the harbour directly, and a link to Portpatrick was also opened. In 1877, a rail connection north to Girvan and Glasgow was also established. Stranraer remained the main Scottish port for the Irish ferries for the next 150 years or so.



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