Old Photograph Fishing Boats Inner Harbour Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in the Inner harbour in Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Anstruther Captains were famed for their seafaring skills and later in the 19th Century a number were actively involved in trade across the oceans, several in particular played a major role in the China tea trade. During the 19th century as trading ships got larger Anstruther increasingly turned to the fishing and the North Sea herring industry. Whole families would be involved with men at sea or mending nets and the women salting and packing the herring into barrels. Anstruther landed herring was particularly popular in Poland and the fishing fleet would follow the Herring run down the North Sea as far as Lowestoft, England.



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Old Photograph Royal Hotel North Berwick Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal Hotel in North Berwick, Scotland. North Berwick is a seaside town and former royal burgh in East Lothian. It is situated on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, approximately 25 miles north east of Edinburgh. North Berwick became a fashionable holiday resort in the nineteenth century because of its two beaches and sandy bays, the East, or Milsey, Bay and the West Bay, and continues to attract holidaymakers. Golf courses at the ends of each bay are open to visitors.



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Old Photograph Puffin Billy Craigtoun Park Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Puffin Billy vintage tractor in Craigtoun Park by St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The park was originally part of the Mount Melville Estate originally called Craigtoun was one of the many Melville family estates, first acquired in 1698 for General George Melville of Strathkiness. In the late 18th Century General Robert Melville oversaw extensive landscaping of the grounds including the planting of orchards and woodland. The grounds continued in Melville family ownership until 1901 when the new owner Dr James Younger of the Younger brewing dynasty commissioned Paul W. Waterhouse to landscape the park. In 1947 Mount Melville house and gardens were acquired by Fife County Council.



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Old Photograph Boating Wick Scotland

Old photograph of boating on the River Wick in Wick, Caithness. Scotland. Wick River, known also as River Wick, is a river in the Highlands which has its source at the confluence of Scouthal Burn and Strath Burn near Achingale Mill at the northern end of Bardarclay Moss in the Flow Country. The river estuary, is in the North Sea bay of Wick, and is straddled by the town of Wick. The river basin includes Loch Watten and Loch Tofingall to the West of the estuary, and Loch Hempriggs and the Loch of Yarrows to the South.


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Old Photograph Fountainhall Road Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Fountainhall Road in Aberdeen, Scotland. The name Fountainhall first appears in Taylor's map of 1773. The ground there contained some of the old stone Fountains or Cisterns, used from 1706 as storage wells for the Aberdeen water supply, and the neighbourhood was spoken of as Fountainha. This, however, is not " Fountainhall, " but local enunciation of " Fountain-haugh, " or hollow.



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