Old Photograph Post Office Galashiels Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the Post Office in Galashiels, Borders, Scotland. Robert Burns wrote two poems about Galashiels, " Sae Fair Her Hair " and " Braw Lads ". The latter is sung by the some of the townsfolk each year at the Braw Lads Gathering. Sir Walter Scott built his home, Abbotsford, just across the River Tweed from Galashiels. The Sir Walter Scott Way, a long distance walking path from Moffat to Cockburnspath passes through Galashiels.



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Old Photograph Jeffrey Memorial Kilsyth Scotland

Old photograph of people standing beside the Jeffrey Memorial in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Memorial to the Reverend Dr Jeffrey who died in 1910 is on Howe Road. It was gifted by the members of a religious group who held meetings on Sunday afternoons. These were referred to, at the time, as the PSA, Pleasant Sunday Afternoons. The Free Church at the top of the hill is no longer there, being replaced by modern housing.



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Old Photograph Thatched Cottages Arnprior Scotland

Old photograph of thatched cottages in Arnprior located 12 miles West of Stirling, Scotand. The name is from the Gaelic ' earrann ' meaning a division of land. The Prior, who owned the land. Walter Comyn, the Earl of Menteith, founded Inchmahome Priory in 1238 and it is thought the name of the village could date from then. The village is next to the Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve and close to the east boundary of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, which includes the Lake of Menteith. The town of Arnprior in Ontario, Canada was named after the village, the ancestral home of its founder.



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Old Photograph Dobbie Hall Stenhousemuir Scotland

Old photograph of people standing outside Dobbie Hall in Stenhousemuir located two miles North West of Falkirk, Scotland. The Dobbie Hall was given to the people of Larbert and Stenhousemuir by Major Robert Dobbie, an ironfounder. The foundation stone was laid in 1900 and the hall was opened in August 1901 by the Duchess of Montrose. The hall was designed by A and W Black of Falkirk and cost £12,000 to build. The " stone house " from which the village took its name was a Roman building on the north of the Carron River Valley known in later centuries as King Arthur's oven. Stenhousemuir became home to the Falkirk Tryst one of the largest gatherings of livestock farmers and buyers from all over Scotland and beyond. These Trysts lasted from 1785 until the late 19th century.



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Old Photograph Royal Infirmary Falkirk Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal Infirmary in Falkirk, Scotland. Patients began moving into the Infirmary at the beginning of 1931 and a year later Prince George officially declared the building open in front of 20,000 people. There were 85 beds, served by 45 hospital nursing staff, five years later it was 200 beds and 75 nursing staff.



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