Old Photograph Town Hall Greenlaw Scotland

Old photograph of the town hall in Greenlaw, located in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills on Blackadder Water at the junction of the A697 and the A6105 in the Scottish Borders of Scotland. Greenlaw Town Hall was built in 1831 to designs by John Cunningham as the Courthouse for Berwickshire. It was a proud emblem for the village which held the status of county town for over 200 years from 1696 to 1904.



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Old Photograph Buchanan Arms Hotel Drymen Scotland

Old photograph of the Buchanan Arms Hotel in Drymen, Scotland. Drymen 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 Antermony House Scotland

Old photograph of Antermony House, Milton of Campsie, Scotland. John Bell, born 1601, died 1780, was a Scottish doctor and traveller. He was born at Antermony and studied medicine in Glasgow and in 1714 set out for St Petersburg, Russia, where, through the introduction of a fellow Scot, he was nominated medical attendant to Artemy Petrovich Volynsky, recently appointed to the Persian embassy, with whom he travelled from 1715 to 1718. The next four years he spent in an embassy to China, passing through Siberia and the great Tatar deserts. He had scarcely rested from this last journey when he was summoned to attend Peter the Great in his expedition to Derbend and the Caspian Gates. In 1738 he was sent by the Russian government on a mission to Constantinople, returning in May to St Petersburg. It appears that after this he was for several years established as a merchant at Constantinople, where he married Mary Peters, a Russian lady, and returned to Scotland in 1746, where he spent the latter part of his life on his estate, enjoying the society of his friends. After a long life spent in active beneficence and philanthropic exertions he died at Antermony House on 1 July 1780, at the advanced age of eighty nine. He is buried in Campsie Glen. His travels, published at Glasgow in 1763, were speedily translated into French, and widely circulated in Europe. Milton of Campsie is a large Scottish village in East Dunbartonshire, 10 miles North of Glasgow, nestling at the foot of the Campsie Fells.



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Old Photograph Ballewan House Scotland

Old photograph of Ballewan House near Strathblane, Scotland. A good example of an early 18th century Laird's House, with later 18th century additions.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boat Whitefield Pond Lennoxtown Scotland

Old photograph of a man in a small fishing boat in Whitefield Pond by Lennoxtown, Scotland. Lennoxtown is located at the foot of the Campsie Fells, which are just to the north. A significant event in the history of the locality was the establishment of the calico printing works at Lennoxmill during the late 1780s, on a site adjacent to the old corn mill. Calico is a type of cotton cloth, and the printing of cotton cloth was soon established as a major industry in the area, also at Milton of Campsie. It was to provide accommodation for the block makers and other cotton printing workers that the village of Lennoxtown was established, during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During the 19th century Lennoxtown grew to be the largest centre of population in Campsie Parish. Another important industry was soon established, a chemical works, founded by Charles Macintosh, of waterproof clothing fame, and his associates. At first their principal product was alum, a chemical employed in the textile industry. Alumschist, the basic ingredient in the process, was mined in the area. The works came to be known as the Secret Works, presumably because of the need to keep the industrial processes secret.



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