Old Photograph Foyers Hotel Fort Augustus Scotland

Old photograph of the Foyers Hotel in Fort Augustus, Highland, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Fish Market Girvan Scotland

Old photographs of a fishing boat and fish market at the harbour in Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan is stituated on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde, 21 miles South of Ayr, and 29 miles North of Stranraer, and is the main ferry port from Scotland to Northern Ireland. The opening of the railways, initially with the Maybole and Girvan Railway at the end of the 1850s, encouraged the development of Girvan as a seaside resort with beaches and cliffs. Most of the streets in the south east of Girvan are named after trees, examples are Maple Drive, Elder Avenue, Pine Quadrant, etc. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Garden Party Fonab Castle Scotland

Old photograph of a garden party outside Fonab Castle, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Ramna Stacks Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of Ramna Sea Stacks from Uyea on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Ramna Stacks are a group of skerries in the Shetland islands. They are north of the northern tip of Mainland, and along with nearby Gruney they are a special protection area on account of their bird life. From north to south they consist of: Gaut Skerries, Outer Stack, Scordar, Turla, Hyter, Ofoora, Fladda, Flae-ass and Barlcudda.



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Old Photograph Tingwall Valley Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of Tingwall Valley located two mile North of Scalloway on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Tingwall valley extends north from near Scalloway to the south end of Lax Firth. It is diversified by the lochs of Tingwall, Girlsta, Asta, Strom and some others. It is so indented by the sea as to contain no point farther than two miles from it. Measured across marine intersections, it has a length of about nineteen miles, and a maximum breadth of ten miles. The small promontory at the end of Tingwall Loch, known as Tingaholm or Law Ting Holm was once home to Shetland's earliest parliament. It was once an islet entirely surrounded by water and accessed by a stone causeway. In the 1850s the level of the loch was lowered, and the holm took on its present form. There are a number of ancient and historical monuments in Tingwall, including a standing stone known as the murder stone. This stone is traditionally said to be the site where the Earl of Orkney killed his cousin in a power struggle over Shetland. Tingwall was also the home of brothers Laurence I. Graham and John J. Graham, two of Shetland's most influential 20th Century Writers.



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