Old Travel Blog Photograph Interior Crathie Kirk Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the interior of Crathie Kirk, best known for being the regular place of worship of the British Royal Family when they are holidaying at nearby Balmoral Castle, Scotland. Crathie has been a place of Christian worship since the 9th century when a church was founded on the banks of the River Dee by Saint Manire, Bishop of Aberdeenshire and Banff, and a follower of Saint Columba, the pioneer of Christianity in Scotland. A later church was built at the current site in 1804. Queen Victoria worshipped there from 1848, and every British monarch since has worshipped at Crathie Kirk. Victoria laid the foundation stone for a new, much larger, church in 1893. Victoria's decision to worship at Carthie Kirk initially caused a scandal, particularly when it was discovered that she had received communion there. As Supreme Governor of the Anglican Church of England, it was expected that she would worship in the Scottish Episcopal Church, which recognised the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Salmon Leap Linn Of Dee River Dee Near Braemar Aberdeenshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Salmon Leap at Linn Of Dee on the River Dee near Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. At Linn of Dee the river passes east through a 300 metre natural rock gorge. The River Dee rises at approximately 4,000 feet in elevation on the plateau of Braeriach in the Cairngorm Mountains, the highest source of any major river in the British Isles. Emerging in a number of pools called the Wells of Dee the young Dee then flows across the plateau to the cliff edge from where the Falls of Dee plunge into An Garbh Choire. The river is then joined by a tributary coming from the Pools of Dee in the Lairig Ghru and then flows south down the Lairig Ghru between Ben Macdui and Cairn Toul, tumbling over falls in the Chest of Dee on its way to White Bridge and the confluence with the Geldie Burn. At Linn of Dee the river passes east through a 300 metre natural rock gorge. Between there and Braemar, Lui Water, formed by Luibeg and Derry burns, and Quoich Water join the growing River Dee. The River Clunie enters the Dee at Braemar. The Dee is a popular salmon fishing river, having a succession of varied pools, intersected by sharp rapids.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Gordon Schools Huntly Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Gordon Schools in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The School was founded in 1839 by the Duchess of Gordon as a memorial to her late husband. The original buildings were designed by Archibald Simpson. The Gordon Schools is a six year, non denominational comprehensive co-educational secondary school located in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It takes pupils from Gordon Primary School, Insch Primary School, and smaller primary schools located around that area of Aberdeenshire such as Drumblade, Glass, Gartly, Cairney, Clatt, Rhynie and Kennethmont. I hope these photographs are 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 Notre Dame Roman Catholic School For Girls Dumbarton Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Notre Dame Roman Catholic School for girls in Dumbarton, Scotland. Dumbarton is 15 miles from Glasgow. The building on the hill at Havoc Road is the old Notre Dame Roman Catholic School for girls which was built in 1912 alongside Notre Dame Convent. The building fell into disrepair in 1969 and a new Notre Dame school was built on Cardross Road.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Public School Auchterarder Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Public School in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. Robert Nisbet was born on 7 January 1814 in Auchterarder, the son of Christopher Nisbet and his wife, Margaret Sime. He was educated at the local school then studied Divinity at St Andrews University in Fife, and Edinburgh University. He was licensed to preach in 1836 and began as assistant minister in Lanark. In 1842 he took on the highly prestigious role of minister of West St Giles in Edinburgh. In 1853 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews. In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Stevenson. In 1848 he married Eliza Tawse, died died 1883, daughter of John Tawse of Stobshiel, born 1787, died 1861, an advocate living in Edinburgh. Their children included Christopher Charles Nisbet and John Tawse Nisbet. Their daughter Christian Nisbet married James Paisley son of Reverend Robert Paisley of St Ninians in Leith. Robert died at his home, 56 Great King Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town on 22 November 1874.



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