Old Photograph Biplane Flying Past Forth Railway Bridge Scotland

Old Photograph of a Biplane flying past the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth Of Forth by South Queensferry near Edinburgh ,Scotland. This feat of Victorian engineering has joined St Kilda, Edinburgh and the Great Wall of China on Unesco as a World Heritage Site. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of central Edinburgh. It was opened on 4 March 1890. The bridge connects Edinburgh with Fife, leaving the Lothians at Dalmeny and arriving in Fife at North Queensferry and onwards to Perth, Perthshire, connecting the north east and south east of the country. The bridge was begun in 1883 and took 7 years to complete with the loss of 98 men. Until 1917, when the Quebec Bridge was completed, the Forth Bridge had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, and it still has the world's second longest single span.



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Old Photograph Windsor Hotel Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the Windsor Hotel on the corner of St Vincent Street and Douglas Street in Glasgow, Scotland. The last Kaiser of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II, celebrated his 51st birthday in this hotel. Wilhelm II, Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia, born 27 January 1859, died 4 June 1941, was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen, ruling both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918.



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Old Photograph Storm Damage On Coast Lossiemouth Scotland

Old photograph of men repairing storm damage on the coast at Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. The first harbour for fishing boats at Lossiemouth was started in 1699 by a German engineer, Peter Brauss, at the mouth of the river Lossie near to where the East and West piers stand today.



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Old Photograph St Mary's Catholic Church Lochee Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of St Mary's Catholic Church in Lochee, Dundee, Scotland. This example of Gothic revival dedicated to St. Mary was built in 1866 by Joseph A. Hansom. It is located near a junction of Logie Road and commands the upper half of St. Mary's Lane.



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Old Photograph Meikle Mill Scotland

Old photograph of Meikle Mill by Kirriemuir, Scotland. Kirriemuir has a history of accused witches back in the 16th century. Many of the older buildings have a witches stone built in to ward off evil. This is a hard grey stone set into the local red sandstone which the buildings were built from. A pond on the outskirts of town, known as the Witch Pool, was where the supposed witches were meant to have been drowned but the alleged pool was in fact the mill pond of the 19th Century Meikle Mill.



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