Old Photograph Passenger Bus Fort William Scotland

Old photograph of a Macbraynes passenger bus in Fort William, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Robert Williams Buchanan Scotland

Old photograph of Robert Williams Buchanan in Glasgow, Scotland. The father of Robert Buchanan, born 1813, died 1866, a native of Ayr, Scotland, lived for some years in Manchester, England, then moved to Glasgow, where Buchanan junior, born 18 August 1841, died 10 June 1901, was educated, at the high school and the university. One of his fellow students was the poet David Gray. His essay on Gray, originally published in the Cornhill Magazine, tells the story of their close friendship, and of their journey to London in 1860 in search of fame. Buchanan's first published works were books of poetry written while he was still living in Glasgow. London Poems published in 1866 established Buchanan as a poet. He followed his first novel, The Shadow of the Sword in 1876, with a continuous stream of poems, novels, and melodramas. In 1896 he became, so far as some of his work was concerned, his own publisher. He was unfortunate in his latter years; a speculation turned out ruinously, and he had to sell his copyrights. In the autumn of 1900 he had a paralytic seizure, from which he never recovered. He died at Streatham.



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Old Photograph Bloomfield Road Garelochhead Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on Bloomfield Road in Garelochhead, Scotland. Originally in Dunbartonshire, this village developed from the 1820s with the advent of steamer cruising during the Glasgow Fair holiday. Tourism was boosted with the opening of the West Highland Railway line to Fort William in 1894.



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Old Photograph Of A 2nd Lieutenant King's Own Scottish Borderers Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of a 2nd Lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers with his wife at the door of his house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The King's Own Scottish Borderers regiment was raised on 18 March 1689 by David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven to defend Edinburgh against the Jacobite forces of James II. It's claimed that 800 men were recruited within the space of two hours. The regiment's first action was at the Battle of Killiecrankie in Perthshire on 27 July 1689. Although this battle was a defeat for the Williamite army, the Jacobite commander, John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, Bonnie Dundee, was killed by a volley fired by Leven's Regiment, bringing an end to king James II's attempt to save his throne in Scotland. The regiment was judged to have performed well and was granted the privilege of recruiting by beat of drum in the City of Edinburgh without prior permission of the provost. during the First World War, the regiment was enlarged to nine battalions and served in notable campaigns such as Gallipoli and the Somme. In between the wars, the regiment's regular battalions were sent all over the British Empire to Ireland, Egypt and Hong Kong but were quickly recalled home at the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. One of its heaviest losses during the war was at the ill fated Battle of Arnhem in which the 7th Battalion, as part of the 1st Airlanding Brigade of 1st Airborne Division, suffered 90% casualties. Several of the other battalions were dispatched to Southeast Asia and fought against the Japanese in the Burma Campaign and in India.



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Old Photograph Birthplace Hugh Miller Cromarty Scotland

Old photograph of the birthplace of Hugh Miller in Cromarty, Scotland. Hugh Miller, born 10 October 1802, died December 1856, was a self taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian. Born in Cromarty, he was educated in a parish school where he reportedly showed a love of reading. At 17 he was apprenticed to a stonemason, and his work in quarries, together with walks along the local shoreline, led him to the study of geology. Among his geological works are The Old Red Sandstone, Footprints of the Creator, The Testimony of the Rocks, Sketch-book of Popular Geology. Of these books, perhaps The Old Red Sandstone was the best-known. The Old Red Sandstone is still a term used to collectively describe sedimentary rocks deposited as a result of the Caledonian orogeny in the late Silurian, Devonian and earliest part of the Carboniferous period. For most of 1856, Miller suffered severe headaches and mental distress, and the most probable diagnosis is of psychotic depression. Victorian medicine did not help. He feared that he might harm his wife or children because of persecutory delusions. Miller committed suicide, shooting himself in the chest with a revolver in his house on Tower Street, Portobello, Edinburgh on the night of 23rd December 1856.

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