Old Photograph Railway Station Kilbarchan Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish village was known for its former weaving industry. At one time there were 800 weavers in this village. The station was part of the Dalry and North Johnstone Line on the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The station opened on 1 June 1905, and closed to passengers on 27 June 1966. The station was originally an island platform covered by an overhanging glass canopy. Access to the station, was via two glazed brick lined entrance ramps at either end of the platform; one leading to the archway under the green bridges in the village's main thoroughfare High Barholm, and the other leading down to a minor road near the Tandlehill estate. When the station was built, several of the cottages in the street had to be cleared to make way for the station entrance, and the bridges over the street. The station's platform remains partially intact. However, the trackbed is now part of National Cycle Route 7. Both station passenger entrance ramps were re-opened for access to the cycle route.



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Old Photograph Passenger Bus Almondbank Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a passenger bus and people outside the Post Office in Almondbank near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Just South of Almondbank village, is the Royal Navy Workshops. This is a fairly large complex of factory workshops which in the past serviced aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm. To the north west of this instillation lies the derelict remains of an industrial complex once busily producing textiles. Now, only the shell of this once large, work intensive industry remains.





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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes And Drums Inveraray Pipe Band

Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes and drums music of Inveraray and District Pipe Band from Inveraray a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. This Pipe Band won the 2017 World Pipe Band Championships on Glasgow Green.

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Old Photograph Croma Hotel Crail East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Croma Hotel in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. King James V, the father of Mary Queen of Scots, sent for his wife, Mary of Guise, whom he had recently married by proxy in Paris, and she landed in Crail in June 1538. accompanied by a navy of ships under Lord Maxwell, and 2,000 lords and barons whom her new husband had sent from Scotland to fetch her away, Queen Mary landed at Crail in Fife on 10 June 1538, just over a year since the landing of Queen Madeleine. She was formally received by the king at St Andrews a few days later with pageants and plays performed in her honour, and a great deal of generally blithe rejoicing, before being remarried the next morning in the Cathedral of St Andrews. Queen Madeleine, the first wife of James V, had landed at Leith, Edinburgh, in the spring of 1537 and died shortly afterwards.



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Old Photograph Bank Cottage Dowally Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of people outside Bank Cottage in Dowally, Perthshire, Scotland. The parish of Dowally or Dowallie was annexed into Dunkeld in the seventeenth century.



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