Old Travel Blog Photograph West High Street Innerleithen Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a horse and cart, houses and people on West High Street in Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This a civil parish and a small town in Tweeddale in the historic county of Peeblesshire. The town is said to have been founded by an itinerant pilgrim monk called St. Ronan in A.D.737, who came to Innerleithen via the River Tweed in a coracle. The industries which have supplanted the traditional wool industry and allowed the town keep growing have been primarily tourism and nearby Traquair House. The area is famous for fly fishing, both trout and salmon. 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 Travel Blog Photograph Bowling Green Cowdenbeath Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of men playing Bowls on the Bowling Green in Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland. Cowdenbeath is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It is located 5 miles north east of Dunfermline and 18 miles north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town grew up around the extensive coalfields of the area and became a Police Burgh in 1890. Scottish bowlers developed the present flat green game, established rules, worked out a uniform code of laws, and were instrumental in saving the game for posterity. The ancient game of bowls has always been dear to the heart of every true Scot, and it has always held a prominent place in the history and literature of Scotland. To the Scots goes the credit also for giving the game an international background, as emigrant Scots enthusiastically carried the game with them to all parts of the world. Today there are more than 200 public bowling greens in the City of Glasgow alone.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Shops Grange Street Grangemouth Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of shops and people on Grange Street in Grangemouth, South of Stirling, Scotland. In 1872 responsibility for municipal affairs passed from the Dundas family to a new burgh council in Grangemouth and soon the marks of civic pride began appearing all over the prosperous town. Fine new churches of various denominations, public buildings and schools graced the elegant streets with Bo'ness Road, Charing Cross, Abbots Road, Talbot Street, and Ronaldshay Crescent among the most attractive. Here the well to do merchants and traders built high quality homes while ensuring that the working population in Marshall and Lumley Street had good houses as well. By the turn of the century the population was over 8,000 people.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Durham Terrace Lower Largo Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses on Durham Terrace by the railway line in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Fife Coast Railway was a railway line running round the southern and eastern part of Fife. It was built in stages by four railway companies: the Leven Railway opened the section from a junction at Thornton on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway main line to Leven in 1854, serving textile mills and a distillery. In 1857 the company extended eastwards to Kilconquhar; the East of Fife Railway built the line from Leven to Kilconquhar, opening in 1857; the Leven and East of Fife Railway was created in 1861 by an amalgamation of the first two companies. It opened the line to Anstruther in 1863; finally the Anstruther and St Andrews Railway completed the line from Anstruther to St Andrews in 1887. St Andrews itself had already been reached from Leuchars in 1852 by The St. Andrews Railway. As well as the textile industries, the line served fishing and agriculture, and an important passenger traffic built up. The line thrived up until 1939, but road transport took its toll on both passenger and freight business, and the importance of coal declined, and the line closed to passengers in 1965 and to goods traffic in 1966.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Aird Ferry Loch Duich Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Aird ferry boat transporting sheep over Loch Duich near Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland. The Aird or Dornie ferry operated from Ardelve to both Dornie, and across Loch Duich to Totaig, at least until the beginning of the 20th century. In the final year of operation the ferry ran from 8 am to 8 pm daily, including Sundays and Bank holidays. Eilean Donan Castle can be seen in the distance.





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