Old Travel Blog Photograph Paddle Steamer Harbour Troon Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph the Paddle Steamer Juno in the harbour in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland. Troon Harbour played a notable part in the development of the town for many years. It was home to the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company. Troon is famous for its Royal Troon golf course, one of the hosts to the Open Golf Championship. Troon old railway station was one of the first passenger stations in Scotland as part of the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. The Grey Lady of Troon. The Grey Lady is a tale or fable that has surrounded Troon for years. She was first sighted by Jason Grant, a local farmer, in 1873. I hope these might be of interest to folks with Scottish ancestry.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Roman Road Bearsden Glasgow Scotland

Old Travel Blog photograph of shops, buildings and people on the Roman Road in Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland. The Roman Antonine Wall runs through the town and the remains of a military Bath House can be seen near the town centre. Bearsden's Roman Baths can be found a couple of hundred yards east, or downhill, along Roman Road from Bearsden Cross, the centre of the town.





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Old Travel Blog Photograph Village Shop Boat Of Garten Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the village shop in Boat of Garten in Badenoch And Strathspey, Scotland. The settlement name derives from the nearby old ferry over the River Spey. It is also known as " Osprey village " due to its significant population of Ospreys. The area between Boat of Garten and Loch Garten is within the Abernethy Forest National Nature Reserve, Boat of Garten being on the forest fringe.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Robert Guy Wine Merchant Shop Musselburgh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Robert Guy Wine Merchant Shop in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. The surname Guy was first found in Gloucestershire, England, where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Elmore in that shire, and were descended from Sir William Gyse who attended Duke William in his Conquest of England at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. Musselburgh is the largest settlement in East Lothian, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, six miles east of Edinburgh city centre. Musselburgh was first settled by the Romans in the years following their invasion of Scotland in AD80. They built a fort a little inland from the mouth of the River Esk and bridged the river here. In doing so they established the line of the main eastern approach to Scotland's capital for most of the next two thousand years. The bridge built by the Romans outlasted them by many centuries. It was rebuilt on the original Roman foundations some time before 1300, and in 1597 it was rebuilt again, this time with a third arch added on the east side of the river. The Old Bridge is also known as the Roman Bridge and remains in use today by pedestrians. To its north is the New Bridge, designed by John Rennie the Elder and built in 1806. This in turn was considerably widened in 1925. Tour Roman Scotland.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Shops High Street Moniaive Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Market Cross, shops and people on the High Street in Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Moniaive market cross is a column, 11 inches square and 8 feet long with chamfered edges, set on a drum of masonry 6 feet in diameter and 4 feet 6 inches high. It supports a cap 12 inches square, dated 1638, surmounted by a modern stone ball. Jougs which were attached to the base of the cross were removed during alterations in 1812. This Scottish village has existed as as far back as the 10th century. On 4 July 1636 King Charles I granted a charter in favour of William, Earl of Dumfries, making Moniaive a free Burgh of Barony. With this charter came the rights to set up a market cross and tolbooth, to hold a weekly market on Tuesday and two annual fairs each of three days duration. In the 17th century, Moniaive became the refuge for the Covenanters, a group of Presbyterian nonconformists who rebelled at having the Episcopalian religion forced on them by the last three Stuart kings, Charles I, Charles II and James II of England (James VII of Scotland). There is a monument off the Ayr Road to James Renwick, a Covenanter leader born in Moniaive and later executed in Edinburgh. The Scottish artist James Paterson, a founder member of The Glasgow Boys, settled in Moniaive in 1884 and stayed for 22 years.



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