Old Photograph Bay Street Port Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of shops, horse and cart, people and buildings on Bay Street in Port Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. The town was originally named Newark but due to ships not being able to make it all the way up the shallow river Clyde it was formed as a port for nearby Glasgow in 1668 and became Port Glasgow in 1775. Port Glasgow was home to dry docks and shipbuilding beginning in 1762. The town grew from the central area of the present town and thus many of the town's historic buildings are found here. Port Glasgow expanded up the steep hills inland to open fields where areas such as Park Farm, Boglestone, Slaemuir and Devol were founded. This area has subsequently become known as upper Port Glasgow and most of the town's population occupies these areas.





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Old Photograph Moorpark Renfrew Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, a horse and cart and children in Moorpark, Renfrew located six miles West of Glasgow, Scotland. Renfrew town is known as the Cradle of the Royal Stewarts as a result of its early link with the Royal house of Scotland and Great Britain. The House of Stuart, originally Stewart and, in Gaelic, Stiùbhart, was a European royal house that originated in Scotland. The dynasty's patrilineal Breton ancestors had held the office of High Steward of Scotland since the 12th century, after arriving by way of Norman England. The royal Stewart line was founded by Robert II, and they were Kings and Queens of Scots from the late 14th century until the union with England in 1707. Mary, Queen of Scots, was brought up in France, where she adopted the French spelling of the name, Stuart. Her son, James VI of Scotland, inherited the thrones of England and Ireland upon the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Except for the period of the Commonwealth, 1649 to 1660, the Stuarts were monarchs of the British Isles and its growing empire, until the death of Queen Anne in 1714.



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Old Photograph The Square Drymen Scotland

Old photograph of farmers with cattle in The Square in Drymen, Scotland. This Scottish village is located to the West of the Campsie Fells and enjoys views to Dumgoyne on the east and to Loch Lomond on the west. The Queen Elizabeth Forest reaches down to the village edge, and the whole area is part of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. It is often used as an overnight stop for folks on a hike on the West Highland Way, and forms the western end of the Rob Roy Way. There are a couple of pubs and a walkers shop. The Clachan pub claims to be the oldest pub in Scotland and to have a connection with the family of Rob Roy MacGregor. The Scottish family name Drummond is derived from the Scottish Gaelic form of the village's name.



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Old Photograph High Street Moniaive Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, house, hotel and boy on the High Street in Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village has existed as as far back as the 10th century. On 4 July 1636 King Charles I granted a charter in favour of William, Earl of Dumfries, making Moniaive a free Burgh of Barony. With this charter came the rights to set up a market cross and tolbooth, to hold a weekly market on Tuesday and two annual fairs each of three days duration. In the 17th century, Moniaive became the refuge for the Covenanters, a group of Presbyterian nonconformists who rebelled at having the Episcopalian religion forced on them by the last three Stuart kings, Charles I, Charles II and James II of England (James VII of Scotland). There is a monument off the Ayr Road to James Renwick, a Covenanter leader born in Moniaive and later executed in Edinburgh. The Scottish artist James Paterson, a founder member of The Glasgow Boys, settled in Moniaive in 1884 and stayed for 22 years.



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Tour Scotland Video Clock Chimes Dunfermline Abbey Fife

Tour Scotland video of the clock chiming at Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland.

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