Old Photograph Keppochhill Road Springburn Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram, shops, buildings and people on Keppochhill Road in Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland. In recent years the area of Keppochill Road, which links Springburn with Possilpark, has been regenerated through the work of the West of Scotland Housing Association Ltd, many of the Victorian sandstone tenement flats in Gourlay Street, Carlisle Street and Keppochill Road have been renovated and work continues to maintain and improve housing in the area.



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Tour Scotland Video Tide Coming In Coastal Path Cellardyke East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the tide coming in by the Coastal Walkig Path near Cellardyke on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Fife Coastal Path is a Scottish long distance walking footpath that runs from Kincardine to Newburgh. It runs for 117 miles along the coastline of Fife and passes through many seaside towns and villages. The path would take around one week to walk completely from end to end.

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Tour Scotland Video Prawn Trawling Boat Firth Of Forth

Tour Scotland travel video of a Prawn Trawling boat in the most northerly part of the Firth of Forth on history visit an trip near Cellardyke, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Firth of Forth is the estuary of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian on the south. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times. Creel fishing takes place around the Scottish coast. Creeling, and the many shore based services that rely on it, are often the main source of employment in small coastal towns and villages. The boats that make up the inshore creel fishery are small, usually under 30 feet long- which means that engine size and weather dictate how far from shore, and how often they can fish. One or two people normally crew a creel boat, one of whom is usually the owner. This is the area in which I was raised in Scotland. Herring fishing was a feature of the area until the mid 20th century when, after a record catch in 1936, the shoals mysteriously declined until the industry effectively disappeared by 1947.

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Old Photograph Interior St Aloysius Church Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the interior of St Aloysius Church in the Garnethill area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the only church in Glasgow to be run by the Society of Jesus. It is situated on the corner of Hill Street and Rose Street and is next door to St Aloysius' College. The Jesuits arrived in Glasgow in 1859 by taking over the parish of St Joseph's Church, North Woodside Road. In the early 1860s they purchased land in the Garnethill district, which, at that time, was on the western outskirts of the city and a residential area recently favoured by the wealthier classes. The foundation stone for the present church building was laid on 4 October 1908 and it was opened on 6 February 1910, by the Archbishop of Glasgow, John Maguire. The interior decoration of the church was a prolonged and costly enterprise and the debt increased alarmingly so that the prospect of the solemn consecration receded. It was not until after the Second World War that debt was steadily reduced and finally cleared. On 29 November 1953 Archbishop Donald Campbell presided at the solemn ceremony of consecration.



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Old Photograph Stobhill Hospital Springburn Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Stobhill Hospital in Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland. Stobhill was originally a Poor Law hospital, commissioned by the Glasgow Parish Council, to an 1899, John James Burnet judged competition winning design by Glasgow architects, Thomson and Sandilands. The foundation stone was laid in September 1901 by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, the then Secretary of State for Scotland, and Stobhill Hospital was formally opened on 15 September 1904. In September 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, the hospital was requisitioned by Royal Army Medical Corps staff of the Territorial Force and the complex split and redesignated as the 3rd and 4th Scottish General Hospitals. Wounded servicemen arrived by specially converted Hospital trains terminating at a temporary railway platform built within the hospital grounds. A staff of 240 nurses as well as volunteers from the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association cared for over 1,000 patients at a time, suffering from battlefield wounds to venereal disease, until the return of the hospital to civilian use in the spring of 1920.



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