Old Photograph Pitempten Scotland

Old photograph of Pitempten near Dundee, Scotland. A local legend states that the farmer at Pitempton had nine daughters, and one day he sent one to the well for water. When she did not return, he sent another, and so on until all nine were missing. When he investigated he found their mangled remains along with a great serpent or dragon. On rousing the countryside, a young man named Martin. lover of one of his daughters, attacked the dragon and eventually slew it.

A rhyme recalls Martin's killing of the dragon

" Tempted at Pitempton,
Draigled at Baldragon,
Stricken at Strathmartin,
And killed at Martin's Stone. "



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Old Photograph Barnhourie Scotland

Old photograph of Barnhourie on the Solway Firth coast of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Barnhourie is located 1¼ miles east of Colvend and 5 miles south east of Dalbeattie. The Barnhourie Bridge crosses the Barnhourie Burn, which separates the settlement from Sandyhills. Newbarns Loch, to the west, is recorded as Barnhourie Loch on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854. The Barnhourie Sands lie offshore, 3 miles to the south east.



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Old Photograph Clachan Hotel Fintry Scotland

Old photograph of the Clachan Hotel in Fintry village in Stirlingshire, Scotland. A Scottish village nestled in the strath of the Endrick Water between the Campsie Fells and the Fintry Hills, some 19 miles north of Glasgow. The village is located at the head of the Strathendrick valley high up on the Endrick Water. Alexander Spiers built a water powered cotton mill and whisky distillery around 1789 and the village developed to serve the mill workers. Fintry is a Church of Scotland Parish in the Presbytery of Stirling. The kirk is located to the East of the village. The parish minister for Fintry is shared with Balfron with the Manse located there. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Ramsay Arms Hotel Fettercairn Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car and people outside the Ramsay Arms Hotel in Fettercairn located North West of Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A memorial archway erected in this Scottish village in 1864 commemorates the 1861 visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, while staying at Balmoral Castle. Historically Fettercairn lies at the southern end of the Monboddo Estate, where the Scottish philosopher and precursor of evolutionary thought Lord Monboddo lived. Fettercairn houses the Fettercairn distillery that produces the Fettercairn 1824 single malt whisky.



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Old Photograph Canal Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of the canal in Dingwall, Scotland. The Dingwall Canal was a short tidal canal running from the town of Dingwall to the Cromarty Firth in the county of Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. It was completed by 1819, to provide better access to the town, but was not a commercial success, and was abandoned in the 1880s after the arrival of the railways. The route of the canal still forms a pleasant walk from the town to a picnic site on the Cromarty Firth, although there is a firing range nearby, which fires over the canal, and so there are red warning flags and signs to indicate when it is unsafe to use this route.



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