Old Photograph Kirkdale Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Kirkdale Bridge near Carsluith in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The masonry bridge is located south east of Kirkdale House. It is the access road to the mansion over Kirkdale Burn. ( Burn is a Scots word for stream or river ). With the construction of Kirkdale House, its architect Robert Adam also designed a design for the Kirkdale Bridge



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Old Photograph Tower House Ailsa Craig Scotland

Old photograph of people sitting below the Tower House on Ailsa Craig, an island in the outer Firth of Clyde, in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The ruined tower house, was built by Clan Hamilton to protect the area from King Felipe II of Spain in the 16th century. In the early 15th century Ailsa Craig was owned by the monks of Crossraguel Abbey, and was owned by the Kennedy family. The title Marquess of Ailsa was created for Archibald Kennedy, the 12th Earl of Cassillis, in 1831.



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Old Photographs Argyle Crescent Joppa Scotland

Old photograph of people and houses on Argyle Crescent in Joppa, Edinburgh, Scotland. Joppa is bounded on the north by the coast of the Firth of Forth, on the west by Portobello. Joppa is now largely residential, but salt was once produced from sea water by evaporation at Joppa Pans.





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Old Photograph Cottage Post Office Daljarrock Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the cottage Post Office in Daljarrock by Pinwherry, Ayrshire, Scotland. Daljarrock mean, “ field of the oaks ”. Daljarrock House was a stronghold of the Kennedy family. It is also said that parts of the house and cellars were used to store contraband brought there by smugglers. Until after the Second World War it was a private dwelling house. Thereafter it became a hotel; the first owner being James Barke, the author of a number of books on Robert Burns.



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Old Photograph Ecclesmachan Scotland

Old photograph of Ecclesmachan village near Uphall, West Lothian, Scotland. The name means of the village means, church of Saint Machan, and is its form is thought to show that a church was present in the area in Sub-Roman times. However, it is not clear whether the name was coined in Gaelic or in the earlier Celtic language Cumbric. At least six quarries encircled the village at one time, producing stone of exceptional quality and particularly suited to carving. It has a high bitumen content, further attracting dirt, making it well suited to Gothic structures where a darkening of the material is appropriate. Its most noteworthy use is on the Scott Monument on Princes Street in Edinburgh.



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