Old Photograph Fishing Boat Harbour Wick Scotland

Old photograph of a fishing boat entering the harbour in Wick, Caithness. Scotland. Men and women came from across the Highlands and from the Western Isles and Outer Hebrides to crew the fishing boats and to work in the herring curing yards here. The women worked in crews of three, two gutters and one packer. The cured herring were shipped in barrels mainly to the ports of Europe and the Baltic countries.



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Old Photograph Moor of Rannoch Hotel Scotland

Old photograph of the Moor of Rannoch Hotel by railway station on the West Highland Line which serves the area of Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Although the railway links the station with Glasgow and Fort William on the West Highland Line, the station area is otherwise more closely linked, by road, with central Highland towns and villages on or near the A9 road. The B846 road meets the A9 between Pitlochry and Blair Atholl, about 34 miles east of the station. Rannoch station opened to passengers on the 7th of August 1894.


Old video of the railway station on the West Highland Line which serves the area of Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Passenger Train Viaduct Glen Falloch Scotland

Old photograph of a diesel passenger train crossing the viaduct in Glen Falloch, located between Crianlarich and the top end of Loch Lomond, Scotland. The viaduct was built by Formans and McCall of Glasgow, Lucas and Aird of London, England and Alexander Findlay and Company of Motherwell, to carry the West Highland Railway, a subsidiary of the North British Railway across the Dubh Eas on Loch Lomondside; it opened on 11 August 1894, and remains in use. For the most part Glen Falloch follows the course of the River Falloch which rises on the north facing slopes of Beinn a'Chroin and flows North West into Glen Falloch where it turns sharply South West before flowing 12 miles into Loch Lomond. The river's principal tributaries are the Dubh Eas, Allt Fionn Ghlinne, Eas Eonan, Allt Criche, Allt a' Chuilinn and Allt Andoran. Both the road and the railway line north to Crianlarich pass through Glen Falloch.



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Old Photograph Shops High Street Crieff Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of shops and people on the High Street in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. Rob Roy MacGregor visited Crieff on many occasions, often to sell cattle. Rob Roy's outlaw son was pursued through the streets of Crieff by soldiers and killed. In the second week of October 1714 the Highlanders gathered in Crieff for the October Tryst. By day Crieff was full of soldiers and government spies. Just after midnight, Rob Roy and his men marched to Crieff Town Square and rang the town bell. In front of the gathering crowd they sang Jacobite songs and drank a good many loyal toasts to their uncrowned King James VIII.



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Old Photograph Vintage Truck The Abbey Cafe Glenluce Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage truck and people outside the Abbey Cafe in Glenluce, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This village is in the parish of Old Luce in Wigtownshire, Scotland. It lies on the A75 road between Stranraer and Newton Stewart. Near to the village is Glenluce Abbey, a disused Cistercian monastery built in 1192 by Lochlann, Lord of Galloway. Following the Reformation it was abandoned, falling into its current ruinous state. Glenluce was served by Glenluce railway station from 1862 by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway which provided a strategic link to Northern Ireland under British Rail. However, it was cut under the Beeching Axe in 1965.


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