Old Photograph Drum Street Gilmerton Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of houses and cottages on Drum Street in Gilmerton, Edinburgh, Scotland. Gilmerton used to be a coal mining village. Below its centre is a series of shallow linked caves collectively called Gilmerton Cove. Traditionally they were attributed to the work of a local blacksmith, George Paterson,[citation needed] who supposedly completed excavations in 1724 and lived in the caves for several years. The Kinloch baronets lived in Gilmerton House to the south west of the village. Infamously Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch, 7th Baronet, murdered his half-brother Sir Francis Kinloch in Gilmerton House, in 1795 in part to inherit his baronetcy.



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Old Photograph Morton Streeet Joppa Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Morton Streeet in Joppa, Edinburgh, Scotland. Joppa is bounded on the north by the coast of the Firth of Forth, on the west by Portobello. Joppa is now largely residential, but salt was once produced from sea water by evaporation at Joppa Pans.





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Old Photograph Viewforth Place Pittenweem Fife Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Viewforth Place in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boats Kyleakin Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats on the beach at Kyleakin on the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. From 1841 to October 16, 1995 a ferry service operated from Kyleakin to the mainland across the narrow strait of Loch Alsh, until it was replaced by the Skye Bridge. The village is also the site of Castle Moil, an ancient ruined fortress built in the late 15th century. Legend states that it was originally built for a Norwegian princess known as Saucy Mary who would charge a toll to any boat using the narrow channel by hanging a chain from the castle to the mainland to prevent unpaid crossings. Her remains are said to buried on the top of Beinn na Caillich (Gaelic for mountain of the old woman), the large mountain to the rear of the castle ruins.





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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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