Old Photograph Post Office And Hotel In Finavon Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office and hotel in Finavon village located on the southern side by the River South Esk, five miles North East of Forfar in Angus, Scotland. The South Esk, Scottish Gaelic: Easg Dheas, is a river that rises in the Grampian Mountains at Loch Esk in Glen Doll and flows through Glen Clova to Strathmore at Cortachy, three miles north of Kirriemuir. Its course takes it past Brechin and enters the North Sea at Montrose. The river gives its name to the title of Earl of Southesk, held by the Carnegie family.



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Old Photograph Maule Street Carnoustie Scotland

Old photograph of men, women and children outside cottages on Maule Street in Carnoustie, Scotland. The town is at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast in Angus. It was founded in the late 18th century, and grew rapidly throughout the 19th century due to the growth of the local textile industry. It was popular as a tourist resort from the early Victorian era up to the latter half of the 20th century, due to its seaside location, and is best known for its associations with golf.



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Old Photograph Water Tower Arbroath Scotland

Old photograph of the Water Tower in Arbroath, Scotland. The Water Tower was built in 1885. It was built with the labour of unemployed in Arbroath in an early form of workfare. It was designed by Friockheim architect William Gillespie Lamond in the style of a fake medieval fortress with rusticated red sandstone walls. It is jokingly known as Arbroath's castle. It was designed to provide the town with an adequate drinking water supply but was only operational for 20 years. The Tower contained three lined tanks with a total capacity of 200,000 gallons. The location was chosen because of a natural spring that flowed there. The use of the Tower was discontinued following the provision of a greater water supply from Glenogil. In 1937 the land surrounding the Water Tower was given to the Town Council for use as a park.



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Tour Scotland Video Sunday Drive Into St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Sunday drive from Boarhills North on the A917 road on ancestry visit into to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. St Andrews was an early ecclesiastical settlement associated with relics of St Andrew, it grew in importance with the founding of the St Regulus Church, a priory in the 12th Century and finally a grandiose cathedral, all of which eclipsed the Celtic settlement of St Mary on the Rock. The monastic establishment renowned as a seat of learning was the precursor of the university. With a growing university attracting scholars and students of a high calibre.

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Tour Scotland Video Sunday Drive To The Parish Church In Boarhills East Neuk of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a Sunday road trip drive North from Crail on the A917 road to the church in Boarhills on ancestry visit to the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Boarhills Church lies south east of St Andrews, close to the A917. It is oriented east west and was built south west of the village of Boarhills by the local architect, George Rae between 1866 and 1868. The Reverend Robert Skinner, an Episcopal minister writing in 1870, describes the discovery of stone cists at the site of a new chapel at Chesterhill, which is almost certainly the church at Boarhills. The presence of the cists suggests that the graveyard is older than the present building and that there was probably an earlier building on the site. There are graveyards to the north and south, the latter still in use. All of the gravestones face East.

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