Old Photograph Road To Bracadale Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of women walking on the road to Bracadale, Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Bracadale is a settlement and parish located on the west coast of the island, west south west of Portree, on Loch Beag, an inlet off Loch Harport. Nearby settlements include Struan to the west and Coillore on the opposite shore of Loch Beag. The name could derive from the Old Norse for " juniper dale " or " bracken dale "; or indeed from the Scottish Gaelic breac and dail, meaning spotted valley, or valley of the trout or salmon.



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Old Photograph Ferry Victoria Docks Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of a Ferry boat in Victoria Docks in Dundee, Scotland. Construction of Victoria dock was begun in 1833 by the Dundee Harbour engineer, James Leslie, born 1801, died 1889, to a design by Thomas Telford, born 1757, died 1834. However, it was not completed until 1875. Occupying 10.7 acres, this was one of the largest enclosed docks in Scotland. Today, Victoria Dock is used as a marina, part of the City Quay redevelopment. Permanently anchored in the dock are HM Frigate Unicorn, the oldest British built ship afloat anywhere in the world, and the former North Carr lightship.



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Old Photograph Wedding Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of a Navy wedding in Dundee, Scotland. Dundee did not have a major naval role in the Great War, though it did make a number of significant, if indirect, contributions and many local men did join the navy. The Dundee Company of Clyde Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was formed in 1904 with HMS Dundee as its base. In 1914, 7 officers and 150 men from Dundee joined the Hood Battalion in the 2nd Brigade of the Royal Naval Division and went to Belgium where they became embroiled in the defence of Antwerp. The Royal Naval Division subsequently fought at Gallipoli before being transferred to the British Army as the 63rd Royal Naval Division in 1916.



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Old Photograph Mother And Daughter Dulnain Bridge Village Scotland

Old photograph of a mother with her daughter outside a shop in Dulnain Bridge village located three miles South West of Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland. This Scottish village lies near to the A95, in the Cairngorms National park. The village comprises two communities. Dulnain Bridge itself is centred to the north of the bridge over River Dulnain, and this particular part of the village lies in Morayshire. The crofting community of Skye-of-Curr stretches for a mile to the south, and this is in Inverness-shire.



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Old Photograph Kilspindie Golf Club Aberlady Scotland

Old photograph of golfers from Fanlingerers at Kilspindie Golf Club by Aberlady, East Lothian, Scotland. The Fanlingerers was a charitable golf association of members and friends of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club founded in St. Andrews in 1951 by the late Bob Young and his colleague Alex Mackenzie for the purpose of raising funds for the Scottish War Blinded through golf and good fellowship and in memory of happy days in Hong Kong and Fanling. Bob was Captain of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club in 1940 and his successor in 1941 was Alex who was subsequently blinded in the defence of Hong Kong while leading a patrol of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots against a Japanese occupied police post. He was an all round sportsman and after rehabilitation at the Scottish National Institution for War Blinded at Lindburn served for twenty years as Highlands Appeals Officer for that institution. He was elected first Taipan of the Fanlingerers in 1952 and it was a tribute to him and to those who suffered a similar affliction that the association was founded.



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