Old Photograph Station Hotel Strathyre Scotland

Old photograph of the Station Hotel in Strathyre near Balquhidder, Scotland. Now in the Stirling local government district this village was at one time part of Perthshire. It is within the bounds of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. It is largely a Victorian creation, having grown up with the arrival of the railway in the 1870s and the establishment of Strathyre railway station.



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Old Photograph Garden City Tea Rooms Longniddry Scotland

Old photograph of the Garden City Tea Rooms in Longniddry in East Lothian, Scotland. John Knox, main figure in the Scottish Reformation and disciple of John Calvin spent significant time in Longniddry as tutor to the sons of the Douglas family who lived at the west side of the village. James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan lived in Longniddry from August 1964 with his mother and new stepfather William Carmichael before moving to London, England.





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Old Photograph Post Office Rosewell Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office in Rosewell near Bonnyrigg, South East of Edinburgh, Scotland. This colliery village was established by Archibald Hood, mining engineer and entrepreneur, who developed the Whitehill Colliery from 1856, which was located on the south western edge of the village. He began a new shaft at the colliery in 1878, built railways for the mines, branching from the Peebles Railway, and erected well-designed houses for the miners, and also encouraged the establishment of a Co-operative Retail Society.



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Old Photograph Abbots Road Grangemouth Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Abbots Road in Grangemouth, South of Stirling, Scotland. In 1872 responsibility for municipal affairs passed from the Dundas family to a new burgh council in Grangemouth and soon the marks of civic pride began appearing all over the prosperous town. Fine new churches of various denominations, public buildings and schools graced the elegant streets with Bo'ness Road, Charing Cross, Abbots Road, Talbot Street, and Ronaldshay Crescent among the most attractive. Here the well to do merchants and traders built high quality homes while ensuring that the working population in Marshall and Lumley Street had good houses as well. By the turn of the century the population was over 8,000 people.



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Old Photograph Thatched Cottage Claggan Bay Islay Scotland

Old photograph of a thatched cottage by Claggan Bay, Island of Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The UNITY, a 12 ton ship, with no cargo and a crew of three, whose Captain was McRoy, of Belfast, was bound from Belfast to Islay on 8 Oct 1906 when she anchored at Claggan Bay. The ship dragged her anchor and drifted ashore five miles south of MacArthurs head Lighthouse. All the crew were saved.



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