Old Photograph Hotel Broadford Scotland

Old photograph of the hotel in Broadford, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. West of Broadford in Glen Suardal, on the lower slopes of Beinn na Caillich mountain, is Goir a' Bhlàir, the field of battle. The battle concerned was apparently a decisive action by the Gaelic Clan Mackinnon against the Norsemen. Broadford was a cattle market until 1812, when Thomas Telford built the road from Portree to Kyleakin. Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars settled during the first half of the 19th century. Writing in the middle of the 19th century, Alexander Smith said, " If Portree is the London of Skye, Broadford is its Manchester. " Legend holds that the recipe for the liqueur Drambuie was given by Bonnie Prince Charlie to Clan MacKinnon who then passed it onto James Ross late 19th century. Ross ran the Broadford Innm now the Broadford Hotel, where he developed and improved the recipe, initially for his friends and then later to patrons. Ross then began to sell it further afield and the name was registered as a trademark in 1893.


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Old Photograph Cooper Street Plockton Wester Ross Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Cooper Street in Plockton, Wester Ross, Highlands, Scotland. Most of the houses date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was a planned community based on fishing in an attempt to stem the tide of emigration from the Highlands. The television series Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, was filmed there, substituting for the fictional Lochdubh. Plockton was also used for various scenes in the film The Wicker Man and the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries television series.





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Old Photograph Road To Uig Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage on the road to Uig, Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Uig is situated partly on the raised beach around the head of the bay and partly on the steep slopes behind it. Two watercourses enter the bay at Uig; the River Rha from the north and the River Conon which drains Glen Uig to the east. The lower courses of both of these small rivers are characterised by waterfalls. Uigg, Prince Edward Island, Canada was named by settlers from Uig.



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Old Photograph Post Office Portree Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of Postmen and people outside the Post Office in Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Portree is the home of a fictional professional Quidditch team in the Harry Potter universe called the Pride of Portree. The film Made of Honor partially takes place in Portree. A sweeping shot of the town's main street is shown.



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Old Photograph Staircase Kinfauns Castle Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph the staircase in Kinfauns Castle near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Kinfauns Castle was designed by Robert Smirke and built between 1822 and 1826 by Lord Gray on the site of a medieval stronghold, founded by the Charteris family. Kinfauns was the family seat from the 14th century.



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