Old Photograph Central Railway Station Larkhall Scotland

Old photograph of the central railway station in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Larkhall is located fourteen miles southeast of Glasgow. The station is the south eastern terminus of the Argyle Line, 16 1⁄4 miles south east of Glasgow Central railway station. The station was originally opened as Larkhall Central on 1 July 1905 by the Caledonian Railway as part of their Mid Lanark Lines which filled in various gaps around Larkhall, Stonehouse, Strathaven and Blackwood.



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Old Photograph Whelk Gatherers Kerrycroy Scotland

Old photograph of Whelk gatherers by the coast in Kerrycroy, Isle of Bute, Scotland. Whelk is a common name that is applied to various kinds of sea snail. In Scotland, the word whelk is also used to mean the periwinkle which is a species of small edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc that has gills and an operculum, and is classified within the family Littorinidae. Kerrycroy village was designed in 1803 as a model village by Maria North, the wife of the 2nd Marquess of Bute in the style of an English village.



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Old Photograph Sand Castle Building Competition Ettrick Bay Scotland

Old photograph of a Sand Castle building competition at Ettrick Bay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The bay faces the Kyles of Bute, that is a narrow sea channel that separates the northern end of the Isle of Bute from the Cowal peninsula. The bay is bounded by a coarse sandy beach which is popular with tourists and local people. During low tide, the waters edge can be up to 500 metres from the high tide mark. A number of rivers flow into the bay including the Glenmore Burn, Ettrick Burn, Drumachloy Burn and St Colmac Burn. Ettrick bay was used for practice training for D Day landings.



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Old Photograph Gamekeepers House Holytown Scotland

Old photograph of the Gamekeepers house in Holytown, a small village outside Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The area was born and grew on the back of the nearby coal mining industries in the 18th century, although the roots of the town stretch back to at least the 17th Century, where records show that a meeting house was used for prayer services for the community.



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Old Photograph Railway Line Leadhills Scotland

Old photograph of the railway line at Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway was a short branch railway built in Scotland to serve mining settlements, high in the Lowther Hills, connecting them to the Carlisle and Carstairs main line. The line was opened in 1901, and was the highest standard gauge railway line in the British Isles. Hoped for developments did not emerge, and when the world lead price slumped in the 1920s, the line sustained heavy losses. It was closed on 2 January 1939.



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