Old Photograph Calderhead Scotland

Old photograph of houses and people in Calderhead by Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Shotts is a small rural town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located almost halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. History 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 Kempoch Street Gourock Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and people on Kempoch Street in Gourock, Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. History 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 Railway Station Busby Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Busby located in East Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. The station was opened by the Busby Railway on 1 January 1866. Until 1780 Busby village consisted of a few cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns. Big change started after 1780 with the founding of Busby's first Cotton Mill. This was at Newmill, on Cartsbridge lands on the opposite side of the River Cart. Busby and Newmill each had several earlier mills. Busby itself had Busby Meal Mill at the end of Field Road, and Busby Waulk Mill in the Glen. Newmill also had two mills, situated together at the waterfall. The first was another early Meal Mill and the second a more recent Lint Mill. The cotton mill built in 1780 was on a completely different scale to the old rural mills. It attracted many families to settle in the area, and the centre of Busby swung from the old declining fermtoun on the Lanarkshire side of the River Cart, to Newmill on the Renfrewshire side.



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Old Photograph Shore Street St Monans East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats, cottages, houses and people by Shore Street in St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Alexandra Park Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of people in Alexandra Park, Glasgow, Scotland. In 1866, the City Improvement Trustees of Glasgow purchased Alexandra Park from Mr. Walter Stewart. The park was bought was the intention of giving the people of the north eastern Glasgow a place of leisure and recreation. When the park was purchases it was bare and barren with hardly any trees. Hundreds of unemployed artisans and labourers were employed to begin the renovation of the park to give them something to do during the great trade depression. In 1870 the park was officially opened and named after Princess Alexandra of Denmark who was the wife of the future King Edward VII. History 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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