Old Photograph Shops Tighnabruaich Scotland

Old photograph of shops and people in Tighnabruaich, Kyles of Bute, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is just an hour and a half west of Glasgow, and is located along the east coast of Loch Fyne and stretching into the Kyles of Bute. The Kyles are split into the East and West kyles. The East Kyle, An Caol an Ear, runs from Rothesay Bay North west up to the entrance to Loch Riddon. Here at the northern end of the East Kyle are the Burnt Islands and the island of Eilean Dubh. The West Kyle, An Caol an Iar, runs from here south west, past the village of Tighnabruaich out to the Sound of Bute.



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Old Photograph New Selma Benderloch Scotland

Old photograph of New Selma, Benderloch, Argyll, Scotland. The name of this Scottish is derived from Beinn eadar dà loch, meaning " mountain between two lochs ". Benderloch lies on the A828 road in the coastal area of Appin. Benderloch lies on the A828 road in the coastal parish of Ardchattan. It grew up as the railway line from Ballachullish to Connel was completed in the early part of the 1900s, between the older locations of Selma and Craigneuk. Its railway station closed in 1966.



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Old Photograph King George V Passenger Ship Fort William Scotland

Old photograph of the King George V passenger ship arriving at Fort William, Highlands, Scotland. She was a pioneering Clyde passenger turbine steamer, built in 1926. She was a popular boat, seeing service to Inverary and later based in Oban, and withdrawn in 1974. She was novel in design, providing spacious accommodation with an enclosed promenade deck, the saloon extending the full width of the hull and half the length of the vessel. Above this was an observation deck. The restaurant was aft on the main deck, with large observation windows. King George V was initially mainly used on the Inveraray service but also visited Campbeltown. She became a much loved ship. After 1935, she was based in Oban cruising round Mull, to Iona, Staffa and Fort William. In World War II, she was requisitioned as a troop carrier, initially based at Southampton, England. In 1940, she evacuated troops from Rotterdam, Ostend, Calais, Boulogne and famously, Dunkirk, landing 4300 men at Dover. Returning to the Clyde in 1941 for tendering duties, she carried Prime Minister, Winston Churchill to his battleship en route to the Atlantic Conference. After the war, she resumed MacBrayne cruises on the Clyde in 1946, including the summer Ardrishaig mail service.



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Old Photograph Post Office Crawford Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office in Crawford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This village of Crawfod is close to an old Roman road and has links with Sir William Wallace. This was also the site of a Roman fort between 80 AD and 140 AD housing perhaps 300 soldiers. Crawford is a surname, and occasional given name, of English, Scottish and Northern Irish origin. In some cases it is a habitational name derived from several different places called Crawford, for example Crawford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; Dorset, England; and Somerset, England). The placename is derived from the Old English elements crāwe, crow, and ford. In some cases the surname is a variant spelling of the English surname Crowfoot As a surname, Crawford is the 289th most common name in Great Britain.



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Old Photograph Ballechin House Scotland

Old photograph of Ballechin House in Strathtay near Grandtully and Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. Ballechin House was a Georgian estate home built in 1806, on the site of an old manor house which had been owned by the Steuart family since the 15th century. In 1834 Major Robert Steuart, born 1806, died 1876, inherited the house and rented it to tenants whilst he served in the Indian Army. During his time in India, Steuart came to believe in reincarnation and transmigration. He returned to the house in 1850 and lived there with numerous dogs: he is reported to have stated that he would return in the form of a dog. Major Steuart was unmarried, but local gossip linked his name with that of his much younger housekeeper who died there in 1873. After the Major's death, the house was inherited by his nephew John Skinner who assumed the name Steuart. Fearing that his uncle would reincarnate in the form of one of his dogs, the new owner reportedly shot them all. From this story came the legend that Robert Steuart was forced to haunt the house as a disembodied spirit. The first reported haunting at the house took place in 1876; the witness was a maid in the house. Ballechin House was uninhabited by 1932, and most of the house was demolished in 1963, after a fire, leaving only the former servants quarters and outbuildings.



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