Old Travel Blog Photograph Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall Paisley Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall above shops in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. The Wesleyan Methodist Church was the name used by the majority Methodist movement in Great Britain following its split from the Church of England after the death of John Wesley and the appearance of parallel Methodist movements. The word " Wesleyan " was added to the title to differentiate it from the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, founded by George Whitefield who, like Wesley and his brother Charles, had been a member of the Holy Club in Oxford to which the, originally derogatory, epithet " Methodist " was first applied, and from the Primitive Methodist movement, which separated from the Wesleyans in 1807. The Wesleyan Methodist Church followed the Wesleys in holding to an Arminian theology, as against Whitefield's Calvinism; its Conference was also the legal successor to John Wesley as holder of the property of the original Methodist Societies.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Paddle Steamer By Inversnaid Hotel On The Banks Of Loch Lomond Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Paddle Steamer by Inversnaid Hotel, on the banks of Loch Lomond, Scotland. The Inversnaid Hotel is situated next to Arklet Falls and on the West Highland Way. The hotel was built in 1790 for the Duke of Montrose as a hunting lodge. Its cafe is visited by hikers on the West Highland Way. The hotel has had many distinguished guests including Queen Victoria. Nearby is an alleged hideout of Rob Roy MacGregor known as Rob Roy's Cave. The cave is difficult to access, and is best seen from Loch Lomond, where there is white paint indicating the location of the hideout.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Mill Bridge Of Allan Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Mill on the Allan Water in Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. The Allan Water rises in the Ochil Hills, it runs through Strathallan to Dunblane and Bridge of Allan before joining the River Forth. It is liable to cause floods in lower Bridge of Allan. The river and its tributaries were once extensively used to power mills and factories. The major tributaries, the Muckle Burn and River Knaik, are mainly in hilly sheep farming terrain and no significant industrial use was made of them. At Bridge of Allan there are still in existence three very substantial weirs, the upper of which formerly supplied the Airthrey Mills, while the middle weir was positioned to collect the outfall from the Airthrey Mills as well as the main flow of the river. The lower weir and the middle and lower weirs supplied a changing assortment of mills and factories as recently as the 1950s. The area is now occupied by housing but many traces of the mill lades can still be seen, and the flow of water over the weirs remains impressive.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Of People Waiting To Board Boats In Girvan Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of people waiting to board boats at the harbour in Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan is stituated on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde, 21 miles South of Ayr, and 29 miles North of Stranraer, and is the main ferry port from Scotland to Northern Ireland. The opening of the railways, initially with the Maybole and Girvan Railway at the end of the 1850s, encouraged the development of Girvan as a seaside resort with beaches and cliffs. Most of the streets in the south east of Girvan are named after trees, examples are Maple Drive, Elder Avenue, Pine Quadrant, etc.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Terraced Gardens Mellerstain House Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Terraced Gardens of Mellerstain House, near Kelso, Scotland. The house stands in 80 hectares of parkland, with an Italianate formal terraced garden at the rear, with a sweeping stretch of lawn descending to a lake. These gardens were designed around 1910 by Sir Reginald Blomfield, who was a prolific British architect, garden designer and author of the Victorian and Edwardian period. In 1886 Blomfield married the daughter of Henry Burra of Rye, Sussex, England, a town where he had designed several houses, including his own, the very informal Point Hill, Playden. The family still live there. One house was let to the American novelist Henry James. The same year, Blomfield and the printer T.J. Cobden Sanderson built themselves a pair of pretty houses in Frognal, Hampstead, Middlesex; 51 Frognal remained Blomfield's London home and he died there on 27 December 1942.



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