Old Photograph Joiners Workshop Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Joiners at a Workshop in Glasgow, Scotland. Joiners were skilled craftsmen who built things by joining pieces of wood. In the UK, an apprentice of wood occupations could choose to study bench joinery or site carpentry and joinery. Bench joinery is the preparation, setting out, and manufacture of joinery components in workshops while site carpentry and joinery focus on the installation of the joinery components, and on the setting out and fabrication of timber elements used in construction.



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Old Photograph Susan Lanimer Queen Lanark Scotland

Old photograph of Susan, 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 Photographs Harbour Wick Scotland

Old photograph of the herring curing station at the harbour in Wick, Caithness. Scotland. Men and women came from across the Highlands and from the Western Isles and Outer Hebrides to crew the fishing boats and to work in the herring curing yards here. The women worked in crews of three, two gutters and one packer. The cured herring were shipped in barrels mainly to the ports of Europe and the Baltic countries.

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Old Photograph Venlaw Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Venlaw Castle located North of Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. The site was formally occupied by a 14th century fortification founded by the Hay family, known as Smithfield Castle, which was destroyed in the 18th century. The present house was built for Alexander Stevenson, Sheriff Deputy of Peebleshire, on the site in 1782. It is an excellent example of the Scottish Baronial architecture. It remained in the Stevenson family until it was bought by the Grant family in 1790 and then by the Erskine family in 1798. It became the home of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Elphinstone Erskine in 1862. It then passed to Richard Davidson, a retired tea planter, and then to a Miss Walton in 1946. Since 1949 it has been operated as a hotel.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Balado Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Balado, Perthshire, Scotland. The station was located on a line which ran from Alloa railway station to Kinross Junction. Opened by the Devon Valley Railway, it became part of the North British Railway and so into the London and North Eastern Railway. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was then closed by the British Railways Board.



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