Old Photograph Perth Road Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of the road to Perth, Perthshire from The Sinderins in Dundee, Scotland. To ‘ sinder ’ in Scots is to part. The Sinderins in the West End of Dundee refers to a parting of the ways or sundering of the roads, one going east along the present Perth Road and the other up the Hawkhill.



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Old Photograph Baxter Park Terrace Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Baxter Park Terrace in Dundee, Scotland. The Scottish park across from the houses was laid out in 1863, a gift to the people of Dundee from linen manufacturer Sir David Baxter and his sisters Eleanor and Mary Ann. The park was designed by Victorian landscape architect Sir Joseph Paxton, one time gardener to the Dukes of Devonshire and designer of the Crystal Palace in London, England.



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Old Photograph Gatehouse Kinnordy House Scotland

Old photograph of the gatehouse for Kinnordy House near Kirriemuir, Scotland. Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, was born in Kinnordy on 14 November 1797. He was the eldest of ten children. Lyell's father, was a lawyer and botanist of minor repute: it was he who first exposed his son to the study of nature. Charles became a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism, the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today. Principles of Geology also challenged theories popularized by George Cuvier, which were the most accepted and circulated ideas about geology in England at the time. Lyell was also one of the first to believe that the world is older than 300 million years, on the basis of its geological anomalies. Lyell was a close and influential friend of Charles Darwin.

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Old Photograph Glenrinnes Lodge Scotland

Old photograph of Glenrinnes Lodge near Dufftown, in the heart of Speyside, Scotland. James Eadie died in 1904 at Glenrinnes House not quite six years after buying Glenrinnes Estate. He was a brewer who made his fortune in Burton on Trent in England. He was born in Blackford, Perthshire in 1827. He was one of 14 children born to William Eadie and Mary Stewart. His father was owner of a small brew house in Blackford and both parents ran a hotel and livery stable business in the town. In 1842, James was sent to live with an uncle in Staffordshire where he learned business skills and began supplying malt to brewers in Burton on Trent. In 1864 he established a brewery in Burton. He became quite rich. In his later years he became a Justice of the Peace and a Depute Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire.



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Old Photograph Kininvie House Scotland

Old photograph of Kininvie House near Dufftown, in the heart of Speyside, Scotland. The oldest part of Kininvie House, is probably the 16th century West wing with a square tower containing a staircase. This wing has been modernised and harled to conform with the remainder of the house, which, was added by Archibald Young Leslie in 1840.



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