Old Travel Blog Photograph Carnegie Baths Dunfermline Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Carnegie Baths in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline's most famous son is the entrepreneur and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie who was born in the town in 1835. Among the gifts he gave to his home town, include a free library and public swimming baths. Most important of all, was the donation of the Pittencrieff Estate which he had purchased in 1903 to be converted into Pittencrieff Park. In 1888, two Dunfermline men, John Reid and Robert Lockhart, first demonstrated golf in the USA by setting up a hole in an orchard, before Reid set up America's first golf club the same year, St. Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, New York, with Andrew Carnegie one of the first members.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Fordoun Aberdeenshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Fordoun, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Alexander Hamilton was born in Fordoun in 1739, the son of a retired army surgeon. He studied Medicine at St Andrews University in Fife. He began practising as a surgeon in 1762 at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1758 he began as Dr John Straiton's assistant In 1780 he began lecturing in midwifery at Edinburgh University alongside Dr Thomas Young becoming a full Professor in 1783. He had two houses: Blandfield House, a large mansion between Edinburgh and Leith, and a townhouse at St Andrew Street in the city. He was Deacon of the Incorporations of Surgeons in 1776. In 1791 he founded the Edinburgh Lying In Hospital. He resigned his professorship in 1800 and died on 23 May 1802 at his home at 1 St Andrew Street in Edinburgh's New Town. He is buried in St Cuthberts Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street. He lies in a large family vault to the south east of the church, close to the entrance to Princes Street Gardens.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Charing Cross Grangemouth Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of shops, church and people on Charing Cross 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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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Straiton Ayrshire

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Straiton, Ayrshire, Scotland. A Scottish a village on the River Girvan in South Ayrshire in Scotland, mainly built in the 18th century. It was the main location for the film The Match, where two rival pubs played an annual football match as a challenge. However, since the village has only one pub, a house was used as a pub for filming. Straiton is located in the hills between Kirkmichael, Dalmellington, Crosshill, and Maybole. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Forres

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Forres, Moray, Scotland. On 23 June 1496 King James IV of Scotland issued a Royal Charter laying down the rights and privileges that the town's people are believed to have held by an earlier charter since the reign of King David I some 300 years earlier. Shakespeare's play Macbeth locates Duncan's castle in Forres, and the Three Witches meet on a heath near the town in the third scene of the drama. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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