Old Photograph Wishing Well Elgin Scotland

Old photograph of the Wishing Well by The Oakwood Motel two miles West of Elgin, a former cathedral city and Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland. The Motel was built in 1932. The 14 cabins added in 1939 made the Oakwood the first motel in Scotland, perhaps in Britain. The 100 metres deep Artesian well provides a never failing water supply.



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Old Photograph Breachacha Castle Isle Of Coll Scotland

Old photograph of Breachacha Castle on the shore of Loch Breachacha on the Isle of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. This is a 15th century tower house that was a stronghold of the Clan Macleas of Coll, the island having been granted to John Maclean in 1431. This castle was superseded by a new dwelling in 1750 but continued to be occupied for a time, falling into a ruinous state only in the middle of the 19th century. The castle was restored to habitable condition only in the 1960s, by Major Neil V. MacLean Bristol and his wife Lavinia.





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Old Photograph Beach Scarinish Scotland

Old photograph of the beach by Scarinish, the main village on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. There is a ferry service from here to Oban on the Scottish mainland.



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Old Photograph Caledonian MacBrayne Ferry Colintraive Scotland

Old photograph of the Caledonian MacBrayne Ferry at Colintraive village on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Colintraive lies on the A886 road, which crosses to the Isle of Bute here. A ferry crosses the 400 yard gap to Rhubodach on Bute, giving access to the tourist town of Rothesay. The name Colintraive derives from Gaelic and means " swimming strait " or " swimming narrows ". In the past, cattle were swum over from the Isle of Bute to Colintraive on their way to the markets of lowland Scotland.



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Old Photograph Duisdale Hotel And Gardens Isleornsay Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of Duisdale Hotel and gardens Isleornsay on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Emigration from the Highlands and Islands was endemic in the 19th century and the company that ran the Isleornsay store, MacDonald and Elder, acted as emigration agents from the early 1800s. In 1822 they advertised that they were able to " to fit out transports for the conveyance of passengers from Inverness and the West Coast of Scotland to the east coast of Canada. " In the 1830s a programme of assisted passages to Australia from the Sleat peninsula was organised. The William Nicol sailed to Sydney from Isleornsay in July 1837 with 322 passengers including 70 families from Sleat. At the time it was reported that so many local people wished to emigrate that the ship could not accommodate all those who wanted to embark.



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