Old Photographs People On The The Beach In Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of people on a crowded beach in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Stanley Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Stanley, Perthshire. Stanley is a village on the right bank of the River Tay in an area popular for salmon fishing. The village gained its name from Lady Amelia Stanley, the daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl, decided, in the 18th century to harness of the nearby River Tay to power a cotton mill., Richard Arkwright, an inventor of cotton spinning machinery set up a cotton mill in Stanley as well as one at New Lanark. Stanley Mills opened in 1787, and by its 10th year employed 350 people. The village was built to house the workers of the mill. Work on the village began in 1784. It was designed by the Duke of Atholl’s factor James Stobie. By 1799 the village’s population was around 400, and by 1831 it had reached around 2000 residents.

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Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Aberfeldy Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. A small market town, Aberfeldy is located in Highland Perthshire. Beyond its association with Robert burns Burns, who mentioned Aberfeldy in his poem The Birks of Aberfeldy, the town is known for Wade's Bridge, built in 1733 and designed by architect William Adam, father of the more famous Robert Adam. General Wade considered this bridge to be his greatest accomplishment. Aberfeldy is also mentioned in the traditional Loch Tay Boat Song.



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Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Pitlochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Pitlochry, in Highland Perthshire. Pitlochry is largely a Victorian town, which developed into a tourist resort because of Queen Victoria visiting the area in 1842 and the arrival of the railway in 1863. It remains a popular tourist resort today and is particularly known as a centre for hillwalking, surrounded by mountains such as Ben Vrackie and Schiehallion. It is popular as a base for coach holidays. The town has retained many stone Victorian buildings, and the main street has an unusual period cast iron canopy over one side.

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Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Crieff Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Crieff in Perthshire. For a number of centuries Highlanders came south to Crieff to sell their black cattle whose meat and hides were avidly sought by the growing urban populations in Lowland Scotland and the north of England. The town acted as a gathering point or tryst for the Michaelmas cattle sale held each year and the surrounding fields and hillsides were black with the tens of thousands of cattle, some from as far away as Caithness and the Outer Hebrides, for comparison, in 1790 the population of Crieff was about 1,200 which led to a ratio of tens cows per person, similar to the sheep to human ratio in New Zealand.

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