Old Photograph Church Lochmaben Scotland

Old photograph of the church in Lochmaben located four miles West of Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Rectangular Gothic church by James Thomson in 1820. This area has been inhabited since earliest times due to its strategic position on the routes from England to Scotland and Ireland. After the Roman departure from the area around Dumfries the locale had various forms of visit by Picts, Saxons, Scots and Danes. The Battle of Lochmaben Fair was fought on 22 July 1484: a force of 500 light horsemen led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas invaded Scotland, but were defeated. The town prospered and become a Royal Burgh in 1447, and a Royal Charter in 1579.



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Old Photograph Church Drumelzier Scotland

Old photograph of the church in Drumelzier village in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. A simple rectangular building with lattice windows. The church has pre-Reformation origins; the original date is uncertain, but it owes its present appearance largely to major alterations carried out in 1872. Burial vault of 1617 for the Tweedies of Drumelzier. A local tradition tells of a Baron of Drumelzier returning from a long involvement in the Crusades to find his wife nursing a baby. The wife explained that one day she had been walking beside the Tweed when the river spirit appeared and ravished her. The Baron appears to have accepted the explanation; however, less convinced locals applied the nickname, Tweedie, to the child, who became Baron Drumelzier. The family name of the Barons was Tweedie. One of the Merovingian Kings of France was supposedly conceived under similar circumstances.



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Old Photograph Church Street Edzell Scotland

Old photograph of cottages on Church Street in Edzell, Angus, Scotland. The present village of Edzell was originally known as Slateford. In 1818, it was decided the old church's location was inconvenient for the growing population, so a new parish church was built at the northern edge of the existing village of Slateford. The presence of this new church on its northern boundary led to the official renaming of the entire settlement as Edzell. The street where the new church was built subsequently became known as Church Street.


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Old Photograph St John's Episcopal Church New Pitsligo Scotland

Old photograph of St John's Episcopal Church in New Pitsligo near Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A small church was built here in 1835 and was replaced by the current, larger church in the early 1870s. This area originally owned by the Lords Pitsligo, however after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 these lands were forfeited because of the last Lord's support for the losing side. Part of the estate eventually passed to William Forbes of Monymusk who founded the village of New Pitsligo on the site of the existing hamlet of Cyaak.



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Old Photograph St Andrew Blackadder Church North Berwick Scotland

Old photograph of St Andrew Blackadder Church in North Berwick, Scotland. The third St Andrew's church in North Berwick opened in 1883. Designed by Robert Rowand Anderson in a Gothic Revival style with the hall and tower added 1907 by Henry & MacLennan.



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