Old Photograph Balemartine Isle Of Tiree Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, beach and coast at Balemartine on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. The island is highly fertile, and crofting, alongside tourism, and fishing are the main sources of employment for the islanders. Tiree, along with Colonsay, enjoys a relatively high number of total hours of sunshine during the late spring and early summer compared to the average for the United Kingdom. Tiree is a popular windsurfing venue and is a proposed location for an offshore wind farm. Tiree is sometimes referred to as " Hawaii of the North. "



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Old Photograph Shops Grangemouth Scotland

Old photograph of the Alfred Hansen and James Rae shops 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 Main Street Ballantrae Scotland

Old photograph of a shop, buildings and people in Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland. Ballantrae is a village in Carrick, South Ayrshire. In June 1673, while holding a conventicle at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Alexander Peden, was captured by Major William Cockburn, and condemned by the Privy Council to four years and three months imprisonment on the Bass Rock and a further fifteen months in the Edinburgh Tolbooth. The town is the fictional setting of the novel The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson.



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Old Photograph Municipal Buildings Carnoustie Scotland

Old photograph of a shop and the Municipal Buildings in Carnoustie, Scotland. The town is at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast in Angus. It was founded in the late 18th century, and grew rapidly throughout the 19th century due to the growth of the local textile industry. It was popular as a tourist resort from the early Victorian era up to the latter half of the 20th century, due to its seaside location, and is best known for its associations with golf.



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Old Photograph Dumbarton Road Scotstoun Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of shops and buildings on Dumbarton Road in Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland. During the medieval period Scotstoun Estate belonged to the Montgomerie family who, having owned the estate for 200 years, sold it in 1634 to John Hutchison, Notary and Town Clerk of Glasgow. John Hutchison’s daughter married Archibald Stewart and their son sold it in 1691 to William Walkinshaw. The estate changed hands on a number of occasions before it was finally bought by the Oswald family in 1751.



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