Old Photograph Allardice Street Stonehaven Scotland

Old photograph of shops and buildings on Allardice Street in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Stonehaven was a Jacobite town during the Jacobite rising of 1715, and it was a safe base for the retreating Jacobite army to stay overnight on the night of 5th of February 1716. During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Stonehaven, part of the Episcopalian north-east, was again reliably Jacobite and it was one of the north eastern ports where reinforcements, plus money and equipment were periodically landed from France.



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Tour Scotland Photograph St. Ayles Skiff Scottish Fisheries Museum Anstruther

Tour Scotland photograph of a St. Ayles Skiff being built in the boat building area of The Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.a The St. Ayles Skiff, pronounced Saint Isles, is a 4 oared rowing boat, designed by Iain Oughtred and inspired by the traditional Fair Isle skiff. The boat’s hull and frames are built using clinker plywood and it measures 22’ with a beam of 5’ 8”. It is normally crewed by four sweep rowers with a coxswain. With a double ended hull and relatively wide beam the St. Ayles skiff is a stable and seaworthy boat.



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Old Photograph Haaf Netting Fish River Nith Glencaple Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen haaf netting fish in the River Nith by Glencaple near Dumfries, Scotland. The word “ haaf ” means “ sea net ” which is mounted on a rectangular frame up to 18 feet long by 5 feet high. The frame is placed across the current by a fisherman standing behind the net. Fishermen walk out into the shallow waters and place the Haaf Net in front facing either the incoming, flood, or outgoing, ebb, tides. As soon as a fish swims into the net the legs of the frame are allowed to float to the surface thereby trapping the fish.



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Old Photograph Good Shepherd Mail Boat Fair Isle Scotland

Old photographs of the Good Shepherd mail boat at the pier at North Haven, Fair Isle, Scotland. This is an island in northern Scotland, lying around halfway between mainland Shetland and the Orkney Islands. The majority of the sixty islanders live in the crofts on the southern half of the island. Fair Isle has been occupied since the Bronze Age. Fair Isle is known for a traditional style of knitting.



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Old Photograph Glenbranter Camp Scotland

Old photograph of Glenbranter Camp near Strachur, Scotland. Camp buildings were built here during the Depression, from 1933 to 1934, to be used as accommodations for the unemployed. Known as Instructional Centres, the camp regime sought to harden the unemployed, many of whom came from industrial West of Scotland and had previously worked in mining or other industries hit by depression, and prepare them for work elsewhere. The Glenbranter camp hit the headlines in 1935 when the trainees organised public walk outs, and again in 1936 when there was a mass meeting to protest against conditions. During World War II Glenbranter was a German prisoner of war camp, guarded by soldiers who had survived the Dunkirk evacuation.



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