Old Photograph Grocers Shop Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of a Grocers Shop in Paisley, by Glasgow, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Road To Flotterstone Scotland

Old photograph of the road to through the Pentland Hills to Flotterstone in Midlothian, Scotland. The Pentland Hills are a range of hills to the south west of Edinburgh, Scotland. The range is around 20 miles in length, and runs south west from Edinburgh towards Biggar and the upper Clydesdale. Much of Edinburgh's water supply is from reservoirs in the hills, including Threipmuir, Harlaw, Clubbiedean, Torduff, Glencorse and Loganlea. A number of rivers rise in the hills, including the Water of Leith and the North Esk.



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Old Photograph Glenernie Cottage Forres Scotland

Old photograph of Glenernie cottage on Tolbooth Street in Forres, Moray, Scotland. Hugh Falconer was born, the youngest son of David Falconer, in Forres, on 29 February 1808. He was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, and Burma, and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He was the first to discover the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape. In 1826 Hugh Falconer graduated at the University of Aberdeen, where he studied natural history. Afterward, he studied medicine in the University of Edinburgh, taking the degree of MD in 1829. He became an assistant surgeon on the Bengal establishment of the British East India Company in 1830. In 1847 Falconer became superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden and professor of botany in the Medical College, Calcutta, near his older brother, Alexander Falconer, a Calcutta merchant. He served as vice president of the Royal Society between 1863 and 1864. Although suffering from exposure and overwork, Falconer returned hastily from a trip to Gibraltar to support Charles Darwin's claim to the Copley Medal in 1864. Falconer succumbed in London, England, on 31 January 1865, from rheumatic disease of the heart and lungs. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England.



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Old Photograph Keiller's Marmalade Trucks Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of Keiller's Marmalade delivery trucks in Dundee, Scotland. Keiller's marmalade, is named after its creator Janet Keiller, and is believed to have been the first commercial brand of marmalade. The legend says that James Keiller bought a ship load of oranges from a ship that had sought harbour from a winter storm. The ship had started its journey in Seville but the delay caused by the storm had made the oranges less fresh than they ought to have been. The bargain gave Keiller's wife, Janet, the opportunity to manufacture a large quantity of marmalade. The true story is more prosaic; in reality, the Keillers adapted an existing recipe for manufacture, by adding the characteristic rind suspended in the preserve. The first commercial brand of marmalade, along with the world's first marmalade plant, was founded in 1797. In 1828, the company became James Keiller and Son, when James junior joined the business. In 1880 the company opened a factory at Tay Wharf, Silvertown in London, England. By the late 19th century the marmalade was shipping as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and China. It is believed that James Keiller and Son was also the first to produce Dundee cake commercially and to give it the distinctive name. By the 1920s, after the firm had been acquired by Crosse and Blackwell, the company had become a producer of a wide range of confectionery, preserves and cakes. After this acquisition in 1920, Keiller was sold again several times before becoming part of another company of Scottish origin, Robertson's. One of Janet Keiller's great-great-great grandsons was Alexander Keiller, the noted archaeologist, and one of her great-great-great-great grandsons is the British television presenter Monty Don.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Killiecrankie Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Killiecrankie, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The railway North from Perth was built by the Inverness anf Perth Junction Railway whose engineer was Joseph Mitchell, born 1803, died 1883. He was the son of the Chief Inspector who worked for Thomas Telford on the great road building programme in the highlands, and succeeded his father before turning to railways. In a remarkably short time this 104 mile line between Dunkeld and Forres over difficult terrain was constructed in a mere two years and opened in 1863. As was the case on the Inverness and Nairn railway, Mitchell designed some impressive bridges and viaducts.

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