Old Photograph Mill Arbirlot Scotland

Old photograph of the Mill in Arbirlot located West of Arbroath, Scotland. In the 18th and 19th centuries Arbirlot was principally occupied by handloom weavers and farmers. It once had a meal mill, a slaughterhouse, two schools, a post office, a savings bank, an inn, a parish library as well as a number of shops. The parish is believed to be the original home of Clan Elliot, which was transplanted to the Scottish Borders to defend the newly crowned Robert the Bruce's Scotland from English invaders through an intricate network of peel towers. The Elliots joined the clans of Armstrong, Scott, Douglas, Kerr, Nixon, Hepburn and Maxwell in this effort. The Border Reivers and other titles such a Outlaws of the Marshes are most informative about the Elliots and their exploits after leaving the Arbirlot parish.



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Old Photograph Blacksmith Burnside of Duntrune Scotland

Old photograph of the Blacksmith in Burnside of Duntrune in Angus, Scotland. Burnside of Duntrune is a hamlet situated one mile North of Ballumbie on the outskirts of Dundee, on the Fithie Burn. The Fithie Burn is a stream which rises 2 miles West South West of Tealing in Angus and flows east and then South East for 7 miles before joining the Dighty Water at Baldovie. The last 437 yards of its course is within a culvert.



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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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