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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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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