Old Photograph Forse House Scotland

Old photograph of Forse House on the A99 road near Wick in Caithness Scotland. Originally built by Captain John Sutherland in 1753 to replace the family’s crumbling cliff top castle, it remained as a family home up to 1905. After which the house has seen a variety of uses, including a poor house, an infirmary, a care home, and a hotel. The Sutherlands of Forse were a minor Scottish noble family. Kenneth Sutherland, 1st of Forse was the second son of William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland. They were a cadet branch of the Clan Sutherland. The Sutherland Lairds of Forse were seated at Forse Castle lived there until about the year 1660. In the early 16th century the Earldom of Sutherland passed through a female heiress to the Gordon family. Later, during the late 16th century the Sutherland Lairds of Forse supported the Earl of Caithness in a feud against the Gordon family who had taken over as Earls of Sutherland, and Nicolas Sutherland, brother of the Laird of Forse was killed at the Battle of Clynetradwell in 1590. John Sutherland of Forse was a Captain in Loudon's Highlanders regiment during the Jacobite rising of 1745. Upon the death of William Gordon, 18th Earl of Sutherland in 1766, George Sutherland of Forse made a claim for the Earldom, based on his descent from William, 5th Earl of Sutherland who died in 1370. However, the House of Lords found the case in favour of Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of the 18th Earl.[6] The last Sutherland Laird of Forse in the direct line died in 1909, leaving two daughters but no son.



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Old Photograph Coaching Inn Strathy Scotland

Old photograph of the Coaching Inn in Strathy, Sutherland, Scotland. Strathy, from Scottish Gaelic Srathaidh, meaning place of the strath, is a scattered community in Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands on the A836 road some twenty miles west of Thurso. The village itself includes at least three distinct areas: Strathy East, on the right hand side when passing through the village in the direction of Bettyhill, accessed by two roads leading towards Strathy Beach, Strathy West, immediately to the south of Strathy East and Strathy Point. These generally enclose the rest of the village, mainly comprising Steven Terrace. If welcoming signposts are taken to represent the limits of the village, Strathy is contained in these areas. However, some would say that Strathy also takes in the settlement of Baligill to the east, and also Brawl, Aultiphurst and Laidnagullin to the west, essentially the entire community found between the Baligill Burn and the Armadale Big Burn.



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Old Photograph Teaninich Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Teaninich Castle located just South of the village of Alness, Easter Ross, Scotland. In the 16th century, the lands in which Teaninich Castle is situated was an area known as Fyrish. In 1589, the lower quarter of the Fyrish lands were acquired from Keith of Delny by Hugh Munro 1st of Teaninich, son of John Munro 3rd of Coul, whose grandfather Hugh Munro 1st of Coul was a son of George Munro, 10th Baron of Foulis who died in 1452. These lands at first were just the lower quarter of Fyrish but eventually extended eastward towards the River Alness and Teaninich Castle was bought by the Munros in February 1660. art of the old Teaninich Castle was pulled down by Hugh Munro of Teaninich, 78th Highlanders, who lost the sight in both of his eyes in Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 1794. However, later, he occupied himself with improving his farmlands and rebuilding Teaninich Castle. The Blind Captain or blind laird, as he became known, took an enthusiastic interest in the supervision of the building of the present Teaninich Castle, often pacing out the room sizes himself. He founded the Teaninich whisky distillery on the estate in 1817 and laid out the village of Alness at a time when illegal whisky gave the best return on the barley crops of Ross-shire. In 1831, Hugh Munro sold the castle to his brother General John Munro, 9th of Teaninich. Teaninich remained a Munro seat until after the First World War when it was bought by an American, Charles Harrison, the man on whom Frances Hodgson Burnett's book Little Lord Fauntleroy was based. He is best remembered for the large American car he drove around Alness.



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Old Photograph Erchless Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Erchless Castle located by the River Beauly in the Scottish Highlands, near Struy, West of the city of Inverness, Scotland. A building was built in the 13th century by the Bissetts, it came into the hands of the Chisholms in the 15th century, by the marriage of Alexander de Chisholme to Margaret, Lady of Erchless, and became their ancestral home. The existing building is dated to about 1600 as an L-plan tower house and underwent it alterations in the 19th century with the addition of a Baronial-style wing in 1895. After the death of the last surviving member of the direct line of Chisholms the estate was owned by the trustees of the late Lady Chisholm, Annie Cecilia Chisholm of Chisholm. In 1946 the Erchless Estate and castle were bought on behalf of Baron Siegfried Nikolai von Stackelberg and his wife Baroness Phyllis von Stackelberg. The funds came from the estate of her father George Roscoe, a member of the firm James Roscoe and Sons. The Estate continued in the ownership of the Trustees of George Roscoe until 1964, but the Valuation Roll for the following year names the new Lairdship of Erchless estate as being held by the family of Sir Lawrence Robson, founder of accountancy firm Robson Rhodes. On the death of Sir Lawrence Robson in 1982, the castle was inherited by his son, Erik Maurice William Robson.



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Old Photograph Bandstand Magdalen Green Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of the Bandstand on Magdalen Green in Dundee, Scotland. Magdalen Green has the distinction of being Dundee's oldest city park having been in use for some 400 years and has long been used for both meeting and recreational purposes. The bandstand built in 1890 has become a Dundee icon and hosts concerts on Sunday afternoons during the summer. Built at the Saracen Foundry by Walter Macfarlane and Company of Glasgow it was restored in 1991.



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