Old Photograph Hermitage Park Helensburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Hermitage Park in Helensburgh, Scotland. Hermitage Park was created in 1911, from the grounds of the now demolished Hermitage House and extended in 1919 to include the former Millig Mill. Hermitage Park takes its name from the Hermit’s Well a stone structure in the north east corner of the Park, a typical Victorian garden folly containing a spring and reputed to have therapeutic powers. John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh, he was the youngest of four children of the Reverend John Baird, the Church of Scotland's minister for the local St Bride's Church and Jessie Morrison Inglis, the orphaned niece of a wealthy family of shipbuilders from Glasgow. John Logie Baird became a famous a Scottish engineer, innovator, and one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926. He was the inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube. He died on 14 June 1946 at 1 Station Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England.



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Old Photograph Brocklehirst House Scotland

Old photograph of Brocklehirst House in Mouswald in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The original owner of the house was J Jardine Paterson. Mouswald is a parish and village 7 miles South East of Dumfries, and 10 miles West by North of Annan. It is situated in that district formerly called the Stewartry of Annandale, midway between the rivers Nith and Annan, and was anciently covered with wood, as its name implies, " The Wood near the Moss. " It is bounded by the parishes of Lochmaben, Dalton, Rothwell, and Torthorwald, and contains the village of its own name, and the hamlets of Old Brocklehurst and Cleughbrae. The parish was traversed by the old Glasgow and South Western railway, and by the coach roads from Dumfries to Annan and Ruthwell. The parish is in the presbytery of Lochmaben and synod of Dumfries.



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Old Photograph McEwan Hall Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the interior of McEwan Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland. The McEwan Hall is the graduation hall of the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was presented to the University in 1897 by William McEwan, brewer and politician. Sir Robert Rowand Anderson was the architect. The McEwan Hall organ was built in 1897 by Robert Hope-Jones.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Pluscarden Abbey

Tour Scotland photograph of the interior of Pluscarden Abbey located South West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. In 1454, following a merger with the priory of Urquhart, a cell of Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Pluscarden Priory became a Benedictine House. The years immediately preceding the Scottish Reformation, and those after, saw the decline of the priory. By 1680 it was in a ruinous condition. Some work to arrest the decay took place in the late 19th century but it wasn't until 1948 when restoration of the priory was begun by monks from the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, England. In 1966 the priory received its independence from the mother-house and was elevated to abbatial status in 1974.



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Tour Scotland Video Kilchurn Castle

Tour Scotland video of Kilchurn Castle on a rocky peninsula at the north eastern end of Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish castle was the ancestral home of the Campbells of Glen Orchy, who later became the Earls of Breadalbane also known as the Breadalbane family branch, of the Clan Campbell. It was built in about 1450 by Sir Colin Campbell, first Lord of Glenorchy, as a five storey tower house with a courtyard defended by an outer wall. By about 1500 an additional range and a hall had been added to the south side of the castle. Further buildings went up during the 16th and 17th centuries. Kilchurn was on a small island in Loch Awe scarcely larger than the castle itself, although it is now connected to the mainland as the water level was altered in 1817.

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