Old Photograph Queen Street Coupar Angus Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of garage, shop, houses, people and clock towers on Queen Street in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland.



All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.

Old Photograph High Street Mauchline Scotland

Old photograph of cottage, houses and church on the High Street in Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland. This town is where Jean Armour and Robert Burns lived in 1788. Born in Mauchline, Ayrshire in 1765, Jean Armour was second oldest of the eleven children of stonemason James Armour and Mary Smith Armour. She met Robert Burns on a drying green in Mauchline around 1784 when she chased his dog away from her laundry. According to Armour's testimony in 1827, she met Burns again at a local dance and they subsequently " fell acquainted ". Her marriage to Robert Burns was registered on 5 August 1788 in Mauchline, the parish records describe them as having been " irregularly married some years ago. " Jean Armour and Robert Burns had nine children together, he had at least another four by other women, the last of whom was born on the day of his funeral in July 1796.



All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.

Old Photograph Fisherman Cromarty Scotland

Old photograph of a fisherman by the harbour in the village of Cromarty, Scotland.



All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.

Old Photograph Adamson Brothers Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Adamson brothers in Glasgow, Scotland. The surname first appears in 1281, with Alianor Adam, Assize Court Rolls of Cheshire, England. The patronymic form is first recorded in Scotland towards the end of the 13th Century. Colin Adamson was Provost of Aberdeen in 1340 and John Adamson, a Scot, was granted leave to travel overland from England to Bruges in 1433. Patrick Adamson, born 1537, died 1592, M.A. St. Andrews, Fife in 1558 and archbishop of St. Andrews, in 1576, became James VI's ambassador to Elizabeth in 1583.



All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.

Old Photograph Sailors Weddings Rosyth Fife Scotland

Old photograph of sailors weddings in Rosyth, Fife, Scotland. The area is best known for its large dockyard, formerly the Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth, construction of which began in 1909. The town was planned as a garden city with accommodation for the construction workers and dockyard workers.





All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.