Old Photograph Balbirnie Mill Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart and mill worker outside Balbirnie Mill by Brechin in Angus, Scotland. This was a flour mill together with a farmhouse and large steading in the occupation of Mr Henderson of Kincraig. It was on the Estate of Southesk and the property of the Right Honorable the Earl of Southesk. Mr Charles Lyall. was the factor and the mill was under tack rent receipt.



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Old Photograph Little Cairnie Hospital Arbroath Scotland

Old photograph of Little Cairnie Hospital in Arbroath, Scotland. A fever hospital was established by Arbroath Burgh around 1870. In 1899 a competition was held for a new epidemic hospital, this was to be erected at the joint expense of the Burgh and District Committees of Forfar County Council to a cost of around £10,000. The competition was won by Hugh Gavin, of Arbroath, and the Little Cairnie was hospital completed in June 1903. It is now closed.



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Old Photograph Milton Mill Monifieth Scotland

Old photograph of Milton Mill by Monifieth near Dundee, Scotland. At Milton of Monifieth in the eighteenth century, a separate hamlet from what was then known as the Kirkton of Monifieth, there was linseed oil extraction mill. 1794 records show it as producing 800 bolls of oil, which apart from a few pints sold locally, were exported to London, Wngland. Another product from this operation was cattle feed, exported to Yorkshire farmers. There was also a `fulling` mill, thread mill, several tanneries all in business at Milton prior to 1845.



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Old Photograph Fishermen Repairing Fishing Nets Kinlochbervie Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen repairing fishing nets on the pier at Kinlochbervie, Sutherland, Scotland. This is a fishing village located in the North West Highlands. Inhabitants of Kinlochbervie are sometimes collectively referred to as Greeks by the residents of surrounding villages, for reasons now largely unknown. The village itself is sometimes referred to as KLB. The most common surname in the area is Morrison. The most northerly port on the west coast of Scotland, the village is extremely remote and was short listed by the Oxford English Dictionary as a definition for the word.



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Old Photograph Whiten Head Durness Scotland

Old photograph of Whiten Head near Durness, Northern Sutherland, Scotland. Whiten Head is a towering white headland on the North coast of Sutherland, in Durness and Tongue parishes, between Loch Eriboll and Tongue Bay. Rising steeply from the sea to heights of 603 and 935 feet, it ascends inland to Ben Hutig; and its base has been hollowed out by the waves into a number of caverns.



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