Old Photograph Beach Thurso Scotland

Old photograph of children on the beach on the coast by Thurso, Caithness, Scotland.

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Old Photograph The Kirkton of Strathmartine Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in The Kirkton of Strathmartine located one mile North of Dundee, Scotland. It is said that a boulder to the North of the village which is now called Bridgefoot, marks the spot where a dragon died.



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Old Photograph Smoking Room Royal Hotel Inverness Scotland

Old photograph of the smoking room in the Royal Hotel in Inverness, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Ravenscraig Park Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of people walking in Ravenscraig Park in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Sir Michael Nairn, born 1838, died 1915, purchased Ravenscraig and Dysart House; in 1929 the land now forming Ravenscraig Park and gifted them to the community. Nairn developed his father's floor cloth business in Kirkcaldy to manufacture linoleum. This was a floor-covering composed a mixture of linseed oil and ground cork, pressed onto a jute backing. Linoleum proved both popular and hard wearing, making Nairn a wealthy man. The company grew to become the principal industry in Kirkcaldy and expanded into the USA in the 1880s. Linoleum continued to be popular internationally into the middle of the 20th Century.

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Old Photograph Canisbay Church John O' Groats Scotland

Old photograph of Canisbay Church in John o' Groats, Caithness, Scotland. This Scottish place takes its name from Jan de Groote, a Dutchman who obtained a grant for the ferry from the Scottish mainland to Orkney, recently acquired from Norway, from James IV, King of Scots, in 1496. The nineteenth century church was sometimes used by the Royal Family as it is not far from the Castle of Mey which was owned by the Queen Mother. Inside the church which is open to the public is a memorial to Jan de Groot who started the ferry service to Orkney in 1496.



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