Old Photograph Green's Playhouse Nethergate Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of Green's Playhouse on the Nethergate in Dundee, Scotland. Opening in 1936 in the Nethergate the huge and luxurious Art Deco styled Green`s Playhouse was designed by architect John Fairweather. It shared the same quality and finishings of the Queen Mary being built at Clydebank. Its stalls auditorium was regarded as being the largest in Europe and the total seating for 4,123 patrons was only 100 short of the Glasgow Green`s Playhouse total; the largest cinema ever built in Europe. John Fairweather was born on 5 February 1867, at 11 Franklin Terrace, Anderston, Glasgow , the son of John Fairweather, a farmer, draper and mercantile clerk in the wool trade from Alyth, and his wife Elizabeth Brown Fyfe who came from Leuchars in Fife. Fairweather was the architect of Green's Playhouse, which opened in Glasgow in 1927, and of the Edinburgh Playhouse which opened in 1927. Fairweather married Evelyn Ronaldson in 1906 and their son William John Fairweather, born in 1907, also became an architect, starting as an assistant to his father. He died on 13 January 1942, during the wartime blackout, crossing Cumbernauld Road in Stepps.



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Old Photograph Old Photograph Caledon Shipyard Dundee Scotland Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of the Caledon Shipyard in Dundee, Scotland. The Caledon Company was established by W. B. Thompson who opened the Tay Foundry at Stobswell Dundee in 1866 where four steam powered yachts were built before the Caledon yard was established at the shore in Dundee on the North bank of the River Tay. The firm traded as W.B. Thompson until 1896 when prevailing conditions caused a reformation of the company under the new name of Caledon. Operations ceased in Dundee in 1981.



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Old Photograph Vintage Car Glencoe Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car on the road through Glencoe, Scotland. The Glen was the site of the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692, in which 38 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by forces acting on behalf of the government of King William III following the Glorious Revolution. The village occupies an area of the glen known as Carnoch. Native Gaelic speakers who belong to the area always refer to the village of Glencoe as A'Charnaich, meaning " the place of cairns ". Even today there is Upper Carnoch and Lower Carnoch. A small hospital, currently empty, with emergency services at Fort William 16 miles away, lies at the southern end of the village just over an arched stone bridge.



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Old Photograph Vintage Car Highlands Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car in the Highlands of Scotland. The Highlands area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. Before the 19th century the Highlands was home to a much larger population, but due to a combination of factors including the outlawing of the traditional Highland way of life following the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the infamous Highland Clearances, and mass migration to urban areas during the Industrial Revolution, the area is now one of the most sparsely populated in Europe. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of A' Ghàidhealtachd literally means " the place of the Gaels " and traditionally, from a Gaelic speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands.



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Old Photograph Boat Trip Island Of Staffa Scotland

Old photograph of tourists on a boat trip to the Island Of Staffa, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Staffa lies about six miles west of the Isle of Mull. The Vikings gave it this name as its columnar basalt reminded them of their houses, which were built from vertically placed tree logs. The island came to prominence in the late eighteenth century after a visit by Sir Joseph Banks. He and his fellow travellers extolled the natural beauty of the basalt columns in general and of the island's main sea cavern which Banks renamed Fingal's Cave. Their visit was followed by that of many other prominent personalities throughout the next two centuries, including Queen Victoria and Felix Mendelssohn.



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