Old Photograph Parish Church Tarves Scotland

Old photograph of the Parish Church in Tarves, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Much of the present village was planned and laid out by the Marquess of Aberdeen in the 19th century. Tarves contains a shop named Adam Duthie. Tarves Parish Church was built alongside the site of a previous church at the eastern edge of Tarves, a large village with a central square. There is a large graveyard, which extends down hill to the south and east. The main road through the village skirts the graveyard boundary and the very large former manse stands to the east.



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Old Photograph High Street Monifieth Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses, cars and people on the High Street in Monifieth by Dundee, Scotland. Monifieth remained a small village, comprising a number of turf huts until the early 19th century. In the eighteenth century, the economy of the parish was mainly dependent on agriculture. Other industries included quarrying and weaving within the home. During the 19th century, the village gradually expanded following the introduction of larger scale industries to the area, including manufacture of machinery for flax mills in 1811. James Low and Robert Fairweather had set up their foundry in the village at the start of the nineteenth century and in 1815 developed the first carding machine for flax tow in the area. With the growth of the textile industry in Dundee and Angus the business grew rapidly, and, by the late nineteenth century, James F Low & Co Ltd was producing a wide range of machines used for the processing and spinning of jute, flax and similar fibres. As well as building machinery for local use, the firm attracted orders from across the world and by the 1880s the Monifieth Foundry employed about 300 workers.



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Old Photograph Church of the Holy Rood Carnoustie Scotland

Old photograph of the Church of the Holy Rood in Carnoustie, Scotland. The town is at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast in Angus. This Episcopalian church lies east to west in a busy residential area near Carnoustie town centre. It stands within well maintained grounds with a small graveyard. The church consists of a nave, chancel, entrance porch and round tower. It was built with coursed sandstone blocks of different sizes and has fine ashlar surrounds and corner stones. The roof and spire are slated, with large slates used on the nave and chancel roofs. Alexander Smith was born in Carnoustie, Scotland, on 28 January 1874, the son of John D. Smith and Joann Smith née Robinson. He was a Scottish American professional golfer who played in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was a member of a famous Scottish golfing family. His brother Willie won the U.S. Open in 1899, and Alex won it in both 1906 and 1910. Like many British professionals of his era he spent much of his adult life working as a club professional in the United States.Smith died on 21 April 1930 at a sanatorium in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.


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Old Photograph Royal Hotel Ardrishaig Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal Hotel in Ardrishaig, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is located at the southern entrance to the Crinan Canal, on the side of a hill bordering Loch Fyne immediately to the south of Lochgilphead. The Crinan Canal between Crinan and Ardrishaig in Argyll and Bute in the west of Scotland is operated by Scottish Canals. The canal, which opened in 1801, takes its name from the village of Crinan at its western end. The canal was built to provide a short cut for commercial sailing and fishing vessels and later Clyde puffers to travel between the industrialised region around Glasgow to the West Highland villages and islands. It was designed by civil engineer John Rennie and work started in 1794, but was not completed until 1801, two years later than planned.



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Old Photograph Church Greenlaw Scotland

Old photograph of the church and graveyard in Greenlaw, located in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills on Blackadder Water at the junction of the A697 and the A6105 in the Scottish Borders of Scotland. There has been a church on the site since before 1147. The present church was built 1675 and lengthened 1712. The east and west lofts were erected 1721 and the north loft 1784. A prison, resembling a church tower, was added by 1712 and was in use until 1824. The tower houses the town clock and church bell, provided by Thomas Broomfield c1696 and recast 1726.



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