Old Photograph Thatched Cottage Island Of Mull Scotland

Old photograph of a thatched cottage on the coast, opposite the Isle of Iona, on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. Mary MacDonald, born 1789, died 1872, from Ardtun, a small settlement on the Isle of Mull, wrote a hymn to the traditional melody Bunessan, best known today as the tune of Morning has Broken. Morning Has Broken is now a popular and well known Christian hymn first published in 1931. It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and is set to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune known as Bunessan, it shares this tune with the 19th century Christmas Carol Child in the Manger. Bunessan" had been found in L. McBean's Songs and Hymns of the Gael, published in 1900. Before Farjeon's words, the tune was used as a Christmas carol, which began " Child in the manger, Infant of Mary, " translated from the Scottish Gaelic lyrics written by Mary MacDonald. The English language Roman Catholic hymnal also uses the tune for the James Quinn hymns, " Christ Be Beside Me " and " This Day God Gives Me," both of which were adapted from the traditional Irish hymn St. Patrick's Breastplate. Another Christian hymn, " Baptized In Water, " borrows the tune. The song has been recorded by numerous artists, including Steven Curtis Chapman, Judy Collins, Michael Card, Floyd Cramer, Dana, Neil Diamond, Órla Fallon, Art Garfunkel, Ellen Greene, Esther Ofarim, Daliah Lavi, Joe Longthorne, Jojje Wadenius and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Nana Mouskouri, Aaron Neville, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Joseph McManners, Sister Janet Mead, Mary O'Hara, Demis Roussos, Third Day, Pam Tillis, Hayley Westenra, Roger Whittaker, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Libera Choir, Richard Souther and Dana Winner.



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Old Photograph Khyber Pass Scotland

Old photograph of the Khyber Pass outside Milngavie, Scotland. A Scottish town in East Dunbartonshire, on the Allander Water, at the northwestern edge of Glasgow. The West Highland Way begins in the heart of Milngavie, marked by a stone obelisk on pedestrianised Douglas Street. The route, on an earthy track, eventually leads very pleasantly through the deciduous Mugdock Wood, before emerging on a minor road nicknamed the Khyber Pass. The West Highland Way was Scotland's first long distance walking route and remains by far the most popular. Stretching for 151 kilometres from Milngavie on the edge of Glasgow to Fort William at the foot of Ben Nevis, the route offers a fabulous introduction to the Scottish Highlands.



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Old Photograph East High Street Lochee Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of a Garage shops, people and buildings on East High Street in Lochee, Dundee, Scotland. Lochee originally referred to the area in which weavers cottages were situated at the burn which flowed through Balgay Lochee; thus, they were at the eye of the loch or Loch E'e, which eventually became Lochee. When the loch was drained by the Duncans in the 15th century they offered crofting tenancies along the burn. One of the tenancies went to a Dutchman, James Cox and his family. After a change of name and with a reputation for quality linen, the Cox family eventually set up as linen merchants in 1700. By 1760 the firm had 300 weavers and after using steam power and moving into the jute industry the family built Camperdown Works in 1864, said to be the largest factory in the world, with over 5,000 employees.



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Old Photograph Canniesburn Toll Scotland

Old photograph of the Canniesburn Toll in Glasgow, Scotland. These days the Canniesburn Toll Roundabout connects the A81, Maryhill Road, A81, Milngavie Road, A739, Bearsden Road, and the A809, Drymen Road. Even in the 1930s, this was a complex junction, although it was a relatively simply four way junction in the 19th Century.




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Old Photograph Hotel Potarch Scotland

Old photograph of the hotel in Potarch located between Aboyne and Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. For many years The Dinnie Stones were located outside the hotel. In the 1830’s huge iron rings were attached to the stones so that they could act as counterweights; for scaffolding; during the pointing of Potarch Bridge. Donald Dinnie, the son of a stonemason, carried the two stones, with a combined weight of 775 pounds, for a distance of about 5 yards, across the Potarch Bridge and back. Donald, born in 1837 at Balnacraig, Birse, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. He has been recognized as " The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Athlete ". Dinnie's athletic career spanned over 50 years, and over 11,000 successful competitions. Donald and his family eventually lived in Glasgow, where they owned a fish and chip restaurant and tea room in the Govan area. They then lived for a few years in Newcastle, England, before finally settling in London where Dinnie died in 1916, aged 78 years. In the United States, The New York Times paid tribute in the paper's obituary column.



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