Old Photograph Invercannich Hotel Beauly Scotland

Old photograph of Invercannich Hotel in Beauly located ten miles West of Inverness, Scotland. The town historically traded in coal, timber, lime, grain and fish. Mary Queen of Scots is said to have visited Beauly in 1564 and stayed overnight. The history of the village is inextricably linked with a number of the Scottish clans, most notably the Lovat Frasers who owned much of the land around the town. The Chisholms owned much of the land on the north side of the River Beauly and ruled from Erchless Castle while the Mackenzie clan ruled the lands to the North of Beauly.





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Old Photograph Invercannich Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Invercannich pedestrian bridge over the River Beauly by Beauly located ten miles West of Inverness, Scotland. The River Beauly is a river in the Scottish Highlands. It is about 25 km long, beginning near the village of Struy, at the confluence of the River Farrar and the River Glass. The river meanders as it flows east, passing to the south of the village of Beauly and into the Beauly Firth. The river was first bridged in about 1817, when Thomas Telford constructed the five arched Lovat Bridge about 1 km south west of Beauly. This bridge carried the A9, the main route north, until the Kessock Bridge was opened in 1982. A railway bridge across the river on the outskirts of Beauly was built in the 1860s to carry the Inverness & Ross-shire Railway, now the Far North Line. Another road bridge, near Kilmorack, was built in the 20th century. The river is part of the Affric-Beauly hydro-electric power scheme, with dams and power stations at Aigas and Kilmorack. Both have 20MW generators and include fish ladders to allow salmon to pass, the Aigas fish ladder is open to visitors in the summer.





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Old Photograph St Bernard's Well Stockbridge Scotland

Old photograph of St Bernard's Well in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into the City of Edinburgh in the 19th century. This mineral water well is on the south bank of the Water of Leith, on an estate once known as St Bernard's. Just below a footpath is St Bernard's Well; the well house was originally built in 1760. The waters of the well were held in high repute for their medicinal qualities, and the nobility and gentry took summer quarters in the valley to drink deep draughts of the water and take the country air. In 1788 Lord Gardenstone, a wealthy Court of Session judge who thought he had benefited from the mineral spring, commissioned Alexander Nasmyth to design a new pump room. The builder John Wilson began work in 1789. It is in the shape of a circular Greek temple supported by ten tall Doric order columns, with a statue made in 1791 from Coade stone of Hygieia, the Greek goddess of health, in the centre. St Bernard's Football Club, a once successful Scottish team but now defunct were named after the famous well and played in Stockbridge. The mosaic interior is by Thomas Bonnar.



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Old Photograph Hotel And Mercat Cross Thornhill Scotland

Old photograph of the hotel and Mercat Cross on East Morton Street in Thornhill which is located north of Dumfries, Scotland. The Pegasus, or flying horse, on top of the Market Cross, is the emblem of the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry since the 1300s. This area is the heart of the famous Clan Douglas, who effectively ran Scotland in bygone days.



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Old Photograph Vale Of Earn Football Team Crieff Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the local Vale Of Earn football team in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland.



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