Old Photograph Bannockburn House Scotland

Old photograph of Bannockburn House by Bannockburn town located just South of Stirling, Scotland. In 1636 the lands of Bannockburn were gifted to Sir John Rollo. He was the second son of Sir Andrew Rollo of Duncrub, who was granted the Baronetcy by King Charles II at Perth, Perthshire, in 1651 for his strong royalist support for Charles I during the English Civil War. When Sir John Rollo died in 1666 he had no direct decendant as his only son had predeceased him. In this case his nephew Andrew 3rd Lord Rollo succeeded him to the Barony. Andrew sold the lands to Hugh Paterson in 1672 after only five years. Hugh Paterson, who was a writer and Clerk of Council in Edinburgh, was to commission the building of the house in 1675. The house and the estates were to stay in the Paterson family who were known to be strong Jacobite supporters until 1715, when the third Sir Hugh Paterson, grandson of Hugh Paterson and a relative of the Earl of Mar, was to fight in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. For their Jacobite support their lands were forfeited. The Paterson family continued to live in the house, and in January 1746 at the invitation of Sir Hugh, Bonny Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender, was to make Bannockburn house his headquarters after his army’s long march back from Derby in England, where he had tried to drum up English support for the Jacobites. It was during his stay at Bannockburn, after his victory on the 17th January against the Hanovarian army at Falkirk Muir, that he developed a fever. He was looked after by Clementina Walkinshaw, who was an ardent Jacobite supporter. A bullet hole still remains in the wall where the head of the bed was in the room which Prince Charles had occupied. Tradition has it that it was caused by the bullet of an assassin fired through the bedroom window. It is thought that Charles and Clementina were first introduced at her father’s mansion house at Shawfield Glasgow in December 1745, and that they had become romantically involved. Later she followed him and in 1752 the couple were living together in France. Their daughter Charlotte was born in 1753 and was the only acknowledged child of Bonnie Prince Charlie.



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Old Photograph Bannachra House Scotland

Old photograph of Bannachra House located 3 miles East and North of Helensburgh, Scotland. Bannachra estate was a property of the Galbraiths of Inchgalbraith until gained by the Colquhouns. They built the castle in about 1512. Sir Humphrey Colquhoun was murdered here by the MacFarlanes in 1592. A servant illuminated him at a window by holding up a lamp as he retired to bed, allowing a MacFarlane bowman to shoot him through the window. The MacGregors and Colquhouns battled in Glen Fruin, Glen of weeping, in 1602. Less of a battle and more of a massacre, the MacGregors killed 200 of the people of Luss in an infamous meeting which subsequently led to 35 of their number being hanged with their chief, and partly contributed to the proscription of the Clan.



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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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