Old Photograph Fowlers St Kilda Scotland

Old photograph of Fowlers on St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Often described as the islands at the edge of the world, the archipelago of St Kilda is located 41 miles west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Now uninhabited, St Kilda was home to a community who survived the inhospitable conditions here for thousands of years before the final 36 people were evacuated in 1930. A significant feature of St Kildan life was the diet. The islanders kept sheep and a few cattle and were able to grow a limited amount of food crops such as barley and potatoes on the better drained land in Village Bay; in many ways the islands can be seen as a large mixed farm. They generally eschewed fishing because of the heavy seas and unpredictable weather. The mainstay of their food supplies was the profusion of island birds, especially gannet and fulmar. These they harvested as eggs and young birds and ate both fresh and cured. Adult puffins were also caught by the use of fowling rods.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boat Launch Fraserburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the launch of a fishing boat at the harbour in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The harbour at Fraserburgh was built to cater for the herring fleet and the vessels which consigned the cured herring to Europe and as the fleet increased a further enlargement of the harbour facilities was required. Fraserburgh is a major white fish port and busy commercial harbour. A seafarers charity Apostleship of the Sea has a port chaplain in Fraserburgh.



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Old Photograph Post Office Connel Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the Post Office in Connel, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the southern shore of Loch Etive. Connel lies on the A85 trunk road that runs between Oban and Perth. The A828 Connel to Ballachulish trunk road joins the A85 at a junction towards the west end of the village. Vehicles turning onto the A828 head south then follow the road on a long left-hand curve as it climbs to Connel Bridge, which crosses over the A85. Connel is just 5 miles to Oban by main road. There is also a minor back road to Oban that runs by way of Ardchonnel and Barranrioch.



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Old Photograph Tom Morris Shop St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Tom Morris standing outside his shop by the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Thomas Mitchell Morris, born 16 June 1821, died 24 May 1908, otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the " home of golf " and location of the St Andrews Links, and died there as well. Young Tom Morris, died 1875, also a golfer, was his son. Old Tom Morris worked as a greenkeeper, clubmaker, ballmaker, golf instructor, and course designer, as well as playing match and tournament golf. He came second in the first Open Championship in 1860, and won the following year. He followed this up with further victories in 1862, 1864 and 1867. He still holds the record as the oldest winner of The Open Championship at 46. Also, he was part of the only father/son couple being winner and runner up. Morris held the record for the largest margin of victory in a major championship, 14 strokes in the 1862 Open Championship, which stood until Tiger Woods won the 2000 US Open by 15 strokes. He became the second player to break 80 over the Old Course, scoring 79; Allan Robertson had been the first to do it. Once his son Young Tom Morris became an accomplished player in his own right by his mid-teens, in the mid 1860s, father and son formed a team for challenge matches, usually played by alternate shot, foursomes play, where they proved very successful. Their partnership, although not exclusive, would continue until the death of Young Tom in 1875



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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Drive Old Military Road To Trinafour Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland video of an Autumn road trip drive on General Wade's old Military single track road on ancestry visit to Trinafour in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Between 1728 and 1730, Wade's men built the road from Dunkeld to Inverness, connecting Perth and Inverness. By July 1728 Wade was able to write in a letter that he had 300 working on the road, that 15 miles of it were finished and that he hoped to have 40 miles completed by October.The road from Crieff led north by the Sma' Glen and Amutree through Glen Cochil and into Aberfeldy by what is now called Old Crieff Road. To the north of the bridge it pioneered the present day route to Tummel Bridge, Trinafour and Dainacardoch where it joined the road from Dunkeld to Inverness in the Highlands.

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