Old Photograph LAHEJ Tug Greenock Scotland

Old photograph of the LAHEJ Tug off the coast of Greenock by Glasgow, Scotland. LAHEJ was built by Harland and Wolff in 1927. She was a Steel Screw Steamer tugboat with 1 Mast. She was first owned by the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. In 1961 she was sold for breaking up to Hussein & Yaffai in Aden.



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Old Photograph Janet Lanimer Queen Lanark Scotland

Old photograph of Janet, a Lanimer Queen in Lanark, Scotland. The Lanimer celebrations are based on King David I, born 1124, died 1153, granting Lanark the status of Royal Burgh during his reign. A condition of the charter stated that the merchants of the town must inspect their March or boundary stones each year. Lanark claims to have carried out this duty every year since then, and the Land Marches became transformed over time into the annual Lanimer celebrations. Every June the town of Lanark in Scotland holds its Lanimer celebrations. The festivities reach a high point on the Thursday of Lanimer week, when the town's schoolchildren parade in fancy dress with decorated vehicles, pipe bands, and a Lanimer Queen and her Court, who have been elected from local children.



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Old Photograph Newspaper Seller Kirkcaldy Scotland

Old photograph of a Newspaper Seller in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Argyle And Sutherland Highlanders Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Dingwall, Scotland. The regiment was created under the Childers Reforms in 1881, as the Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by the amalgamation of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders Regiment of Foot and 93rd Sutherland Highlanders Regiment of Foot. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was expanded to fifteen battalions during the Great War, 1914 to 1918, and nine during World War II, 1939 to 1945. The 1st Battalion served in the 1st Commonwealth Division in the Korean War and gained a high public profile for its role in Aden during 1967. As part of the restructuring of the infantry in 2006, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was amalgamated with the Royal Scots, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment and the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons, into the seven battalion strong Royal Regiment of Scotland. Following a further round of defence cuts announced in July 2012 the 5th Battalion was reduced to a single public duties company called Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.



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Old Photograph Postman St Monans East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a Postman on Braehead Street in St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This village on the Fife Coastal Path is named after the legendary Saint Monan. The village is rich in vernacular fisher cottages and merchant houses of the 17th to early 19th centuries, with characteristic old Scots features such as forestairs, crow-stepped gables, datestones, and pantiled roofs from the time when locals here made their living mainly from fishing.



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