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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Old Photograph Church Leitholm Scotland

Old photograph of the church in Leitholm located four miles North of Coldstream, Scottish Borders, Scotland. There was no permanent church in Leitholm until 1835 when the present church was opened as a relief church. In 1951 a new pulpit, font, communion table and pipe organ were donated and new pews in 1968. The clock in the gallery is in memory of three young boys who were tragically drowned during the annual trip to Spittal in 1966. This Scottish village was founded, along with Eccles, by settler John Edgar. Other places nearby include the Crosshall cross, Duns, Eccles, Ednam, Fogo, Greenlaw, Hume Castle, Polwarth, Westruther.



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Old Photograph Children Beach Lossiemouth Scotland

Old photograph of children playing on the beach by Stotfield, Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland Alexander Edwards was born on 4 November 1885 in Stotfield, Lossiemouth. He was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the son of a fisherman and became a cooper working in the herring fishery. He served with the 1/6th Morayshire Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders, 51st Highland Division and joined the battalion at Elgin in July 1914. Edwards demonstrated tremendous bravery and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Pilckem Ridge during the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele. On the 21 March 1918 the Germans began the ferocious Kaiserschlacht spring offensive and on 24 March, Edwards was killed and missing in action at Bapaume Wood, east of Arras, France.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Monymusk Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Monymusk railway station was a station on the Alford Valley Railway in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire. which closed in 1950. This planned Scottish village began in 1170, was rebuilt in 1840, and in modern times serves as a site for fishing on the nearby River Don.



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Old Photograph Central Hotel Peebles Scotland

Old photograph of the Central Hotel in Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. Sir Robert John Mathieson Inglis, was born at Tantah House in south Peebles on 5 May 1881, the son of James C. Inglis. He was educated locally at Bonnington Park Academy then went to Edinburgh University to study Mathematics and Engineering. In 1900 he joined the North British Railway as a junior design engineer. He quickly rose to be Resident Engineer for the Lothian area and was involved in the widening works between Edinburgh and Portobello, including a reconfiguration of the tunnels going through Calton Hill under the Royal High School. In 1909 he became Chief Assistant for New Works for all of the North British Railway, aged only 28. In 1911 he received yet another boost to his career, being appointed an Engineer to the Ministry of Transport for Great Britain. In 1912 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Willam Archer Porter Tait, Benjamin Hall Blyth, Charles Alexander Stevenson and William Allan Carter. In 1948 he went to South Africa to advise upon and establish the new Durban railway station. In 1949 he returned to Scotland as Chairman of the Glasgow and District Transport Committee with the primary purpose of electrifying the Glasgow and Clyde Valley railway system. He retired to Helensburgh in 1957 aged 76, and took on the titular role of Deputy Lieutenant for Dunbartonshire. He died in Helensburgh on 23 June 1962.



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