Old Photograph East Main Street Whitburn Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses on East Main Street in Whitburn in West Lothian, Scotland. This small Scottish town is located halfway between Scotlands's two largest cities, being about 27 miles east of Glasgow and 23 miles west of Edinburgh. Elizabeth Paton or Bishop, mother of the first illegitimate child of Robert Burns, Elizabeth Paton Burns, married John Bishop, factor to the Laird of Polkemmet and was buried in the Whitburn churchyard.



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Old Photograph Main Street Camelon Scotland

Old photograph of cars, buildings and people on the Main Street in Camelon located one and half miles from Falkirk, Scotland. Camelon developed when the canals were built in the 18th and 19th centuries. Much of the Forth and Clyde Canal opened in the 1770s over a decade after the Carron Iron Works were established. The Union Canal opened in 1822 and brought traffic from Edinburgh to Port Downie where the canals met. A couple of decades later saw the coming of the railways. In 1831 the village was described as having a population of 809 with 250 men and boys employed. Historical industries included nail making, a tar processing plant and other chemical works, a shipbuilding business near Lock Sixteen and a whisky distillery at Rosebank. In the early 20th century W. Alexander & Sons set up a bus service and coachbuilders in Camelon. A flight of locks which joined the Union Canal with the Forth and Clyde Canal brought business to the village. It is also the site of a series of Roman fortifications, Alauna Civitas, on the Roman Antonine Wall.



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Old Photograph East Main Street West Kilbride Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and children East Main Street in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Main Street Dalry Scotland

Old photograph of a car, shops, houses and people on the Main Street in Dalry in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Dalry was mentioned in 1226 as a " chapel of Ardrossan ". The parish of Dalry was probably formed in 1279 when a " Henry, Rector of the Church of Dalry " appears in the Register of the Diocese of Glasgow. Lands including the area of Pitcon in Dalry were given by Robert the Bruce to his right hand man Robert Boyd in 1316. On the 8th Nov 1576, midwife Bessie Dunlop, resident of Lynne, in Dalry, was accused of sorcery and witchcraft. She answered her accusers that she received information on prophecies or to the whereabouts of lost goods from a Thomas Reid, a former barony officer in Dalry who died at the Battle of Pinkie some 30 years before. She convicted and burnt at the stake at Castle Hill in Edinburgh in 1576. Various manufacturing existed in the parish relating to cotton and carpet yarn with silk and harness weaving, in which both men and women were employed.A significant number of women were occupied in sewing and embroidering, mainly for the Glasgow and Paisley manufacturers. The dressing and spinning of flax to some extent was also done in the area.

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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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