Old Photograph Edmund Hodgson Yates Scotland

Old photograph of Edmund Hodgson Yates in Scotland. Edmund, born in Edinburgh on 3 July 1831, died 20 May 1894, was a British journalist, novelist and dramatist. He was the son of the actor and theatre manager Frederick Henry Yates and was educated at Highgate School in London, England from 1840 to 1846. In 1854 he published his first book My Haunts and their Frequenters, after which followed a succession of novels, and plays. As a contributor to All The Year Round and Household Words, he gained the high opinion of Charles Dickens. Yates was perhaps best known as proprietor and editor of The World society newspaper, which he established with Glenville Murray, which he edited under the pen name of " Atlas ", and which for a time was edited by Alexander Meyrick Broadley. The World, which was perceived as a newspaper chronicling upper class London Society, was a pioneer in 'personal journalism', such as the interview, which was later adopted by newspapers generally.



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Old Photograph Robert Michael Ballantyne Scotland

Old photograph of Robert Michael Ballantyne in Scotland. Robert, born in Edinburgh on 24 April 1825, died 8 February 1894, was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. He was also an accomplished artist, and exhibited some of his water colours at the Royal Scottish Academy. He was the ninth of ten children and the youngest son, to Alexander Thomson Ballantyne, born 1776, died 1847, and his wife Anne, born 1786, died 1855. Ballantyne went to Canada aged 16, and spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company. He traded with the local Native Americans for furs, which required him to travel by canoe and sleigh to the areas occupied by the modern day provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, experiences that formed the basis of his novel Snowflakes and Sunbeams. In 1847 Ballantyne returned to Scotland to discover that his father had died. He published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America, and for some time was employed by the publishers Messrs Constable. In 1856 he gave up business to focus on his literary career, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. Ballantyne spent his later years in Harrow, London, England, before moving to Italy for the sake of his health, possibly suffering from undiagnosed Ménière's disease. He died in Rome on 8 February 1894.



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Tour Scotland Video Bon Scott Statue in Kirriemuir

Tour Scotland video of the Bon Scott Statue on ancestry visit to Kirriemuir, Scotland. Bon Scott of AC/DC was born in nearby Forfar and lived in Kirriemuir for a short time from 1947 until 1950 when his family emigrated to Australia, where the family lived in the suburb of Sunshine for four years before moving to Fremantle, Western Australia.

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Tour Scotland Video Boos Bros Singing In Pitcairngreen Inn Perthshire.

Tour Scotland video of Boos Bros singing in Pitcairngreen Inn near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. John Boos and Greig Taylor, the Boos Bros, performing in Perthshire. Steeped in local history and set in the picturesque village of Pitcairngreen on the outskirts of Perth, the Pitcairngreen Inn, built as a coaching inn well over two hundred years ago, is still serving customers to this day.

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Tour Scotland Video Great Britain VI Steam Train Leaving Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Great Britain VI Steam Train leaving the railway station after visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The train was heading South for London, England. BR 44871 LMS 4871 was built at Crewe Works in 1945 in England. Technical detail specifications of locomotive 44871: Boiler pressure of 44871: 225 lbf/sq.in., Weight of 44871: loco 72.1 tons, tender 53.7 tons, Wheel diameter of 44871: 3' 3½'', 6' 0", Valve gear of 44871: Walschaerts piston valves, Cylinders (diameter x stroke) of 44871: 18½" x 28" (O), Tractive effort of 44871: 25450 lbf., BR Power classification of 44871: Class 5MT.

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