Old Photograph Murthly Road Stanley Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of car on Murthly Road in Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Piper Drummond Castle Crieff Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a Piper outside Drummond Castle near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Percy Street Stanley Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people on Percy Street in Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland. Stanley is a village on the right bank of the River Tay in an area popular for salmon fishing. The village gained its name from Lady Amelia Stanley, the daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl, decided, in the 18th century to harness of the nearby River Tay to power a cotton mill., Richard Arkwright, an inventor of cotton spinning machinery set up a cotton mill in Stanley as well as one at New Lanark. Stanley Mills opened in 1787, and by its 10th year employed 350 people. The village was built to house the workers of the mill. Work on the village began in 1784. It was designed by the Duke of Atholl’s factor James Stobie. By 1799 the village’s population was around 400, and by 1831 it had reached around 2,000 residents.



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Old Photograph Fishwives Homes Stonehaven Scotland

Old photograph of fishwives outside their homes in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boat Harbour Buckhaven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boat in the harbour in Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland. I was born in this village on the East coast of Scotland. The fishing community of Buckhaven is said to have been largely the descendants of Norsemen who settled there in the 9th century. Centuries later, Buckhaven's fisherfolk bought an Episcopal Church in St Andrews in 1869 and transported it stone by stone to Buckhaven, using fishing boats. Once a thriving weaving village and fishing port, in 1831, Buckhaven was reported as having the second largest fishing fleet in Scotland with a total of 198 boats. Fishing declined during the 19th century, but in the 1860s Buckhaven developed more into a mining town. Although coal waste blackened its beaches and silted up its now non existent harbour, it later became a Fife coast holiday resort and recreation area for locals.



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