Old Photograph Double Decker Passenger Bus Pather Scotland

Old photograph of a Double Decker passenger bus in Pather, a small suburb of Wishaw, Scotland. All the streets in Pather are named after Scottish Lochs except Hospital Road, which is an offshoot of the road that used to pass the now demolished Wishaw Hospital. Examples of this include Tarbert Avenue, Lomond Drive, Earn Crescent, Ness Street, Etive Street, and Sunart Street. Pather is separated from the main part of Wishaw and Gowkthrapple by the two railway lines, one of which is the main West Coast line between Glasgow and London and the other is the Lanark line which runs between Lanark and Milngavie and Dalmuir, which run parallel along the length of the scheme proper. It is also serviced by First Glasgow buses which run a service to Glasgow.



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Tour Scotland Winter Drive Storm Doris Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland Winter Drive after Storm Doris in the Highlands of Scotland. The fourth named storm of this winter, Storm Doris was named on 21 February and impacted the UK and Ireland on 23 February.

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Old Photograph Royal Flying Corps Montrose Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal Flying Corps by Montrose, Scotland. In 1912, the British government planned twelve Air Stations operated by the Royal Flying Corps. Under the instructions of the First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, the first of these was at Montrose, allowing aircraft the ability to protect the Royal Navy bases at Rosyth, Cromarty and Scapa Flow. On 13 February 1913 five aircraft of No. 2 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps took off from RAF Farnborough under the command of Major C J Burke. The 450 miles journey north was completed in a series of stages over the following 13 days. The aircraft landed at Upper Dysart Farm on 26 February, 3 miles South of Montrose, thus making it the first operational military airfield to be established in the United Kingdom. Not considering the site ideal, after surveying the area Major Burke gained agreement to move the base to Broomfield Farm, 1 mile North of the town. World War I started on 28 July 1914 and in August of that year No.2 squadron moved to France. The first pilot to land in France after the declaration of war was Lieutenant H.D. Harvey Kelly of No.2 Squadron RFC. Another of the squadrons’ pilots, 2nd Lieutenant W B Rhodes Moorhouse became the first pilot to be awarded the Victoria Cross. Unfortunately it was awarded posthumously on 26 April 1915.



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Old Photograph Cody V Biplane Lanark Scotland

Old photograph of the Cody V Biplane at the airshow in Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is located South East of Glasgow. The Cody V was a single engined biplane built by the British based American aviation pioneer Samuel Franklin Cody in 1912. It was built from the remains of two of Cody's earlier aircraft, and won the 1912 British Military Aeroplane Competition, with two aircraft being purchased for the Royal Flying Corps. It was abandoned after the mid air disintegration of one of the aircraft in April 1913. The Lanark Airshow was the first airshow in Scotland and it was particularly special in that it was also the second British International Airshow. It attracted competitors from all over the world including; America, Peru, France, Holland, Italy, Switzerland and of course Britain.



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Old Photograph Marriage House Coldstream Scotland

Old photograph of the Marriage House situated at the northern end of the Bridge in Coldstream, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Coldstream is a Scottish a village which is located on the north bank of the the River Tweed. In England, marriages could be transacted without prior notice until 1856, when the law stated that three week’s notice was needed. The Marriage House then became a popular place for runaway couples to be wed and at one time rivalled the famous smithy at Gretna Green.



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