Old Photograph Kirkconnel Dumfries and Galloway Scotland.

Old photograph of people standing outside cottages in Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Life changed dramatically for this small Scottish town in the 1890s when a coal pit was opened at Fauldheld. Coal had always been mined in the district before, but never in large quantities. From then on coal dominated the life of the little town. The coal industry moved away in recent decades, and with it much of the population. Whether Saint Conal was an Irish monk or the son of a local shepherd befriended and educated by Glasgow’s Saint Mungo, Christianity came early to this part of Nithsdale.



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Old Photograph West Main Street Armadale West Lothian Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, and people on West Main Street in Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland. Before the building of a new turnpike road between Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1786 the village of Armadale was little more than a rural farm community but its location at a main highway junction brought additional traffic and a toll house was built where the new road intersected with an existing road in the east of the estate. The estate comprising the lands of Barbauchlaw was sold to Sir William Honeyman in 1790 and upon his elevation to the bench in 1797 he took the title of Lord Armadale, from his mother's estate in Sutherland in the Highlands, and this name was then applied to the township.



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Old Photograph Royal Visit Whitehall Street Dundee Scotland

Old photograph a Royal visit on Whitehall Street in Dundee, Scotland. The great event of 1914 in Dundee, was the Royal Visit, on 10 July by His Majesty King George V, Queen Mary and their daughter, Princess Mary made an official visit to the city, the first by a reigning monarch in 70 years.



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Old Photograph Middleton Street Alexandria Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses on Middleton Street in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The town's traditional industries, most importantly cotton manufacturing, bleaching and printing, are long gone. Alexandria sits on the former A82 main road between Glasgow and Loch Lomond. There are regular bus services on the route and the town has a railway station on the rail line between Balloch and Glasgow Queen Street.



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Old Photograph Main Street Lower Largo East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of houses and people on the Main Street in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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