Old Travel Blog Photograph Beach St Kilda Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cottages by the beach on St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Often described as the islands at the edge of the world, the archipelago of St Kilda is located 41 miles west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The islands were historically part of the domain of the MacLeods of Harris whose steward was responsible for the collection of rents in kind and other duties. Early in World War I the Royal Navy erected a signal station on Hirta and daily communications with the mainland were established for the first time in St Kilda's history. In a belated response, a German submarine arrived in Village Bay on the morning of 15 May 1918 and after issuing a warning, started shelling the island. Seventy two shells in all were fired and the wireless station was destroyed. The manse, church and jetty storehouse were also damaged but there was no loss of life. After World War One most of the young men left the island and the population fell from 73 in 1920 to 37 in 1928. After the death of four men from influenza in 1926, and a succession of crop failures in the 1920s, the last straw came with the death from appendicitis of a young woman, Mary Gillies, in January 1930. On 29 August 1930. On 29 August 1930, the last 36 inhabitants were evacuated to Morvern on the Scottish mainland at their own request.Now uninhabited, St Kilda was home to a community who survived the inhospitable conditions here for thousands of years before the final 36 people were evacuated in 1930.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Catherine Marsh Leven Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Catherine Marsh in Leven, Fife, Scotland. Catherine was the youngest of William Marsh's five children and his fourth daughter. Born on 15 September 1818 at St Peter's vicarage, Colchester, England, she lived with her father and later wrote his biography. During the 1850s in Beckenham, she became concerned for the spiritual welfare of the labourers working on the re-erection of the Crystal Palace nearby and for the many soldiers setting out for the Crimean War. Her emotive biography of an earnest Christian killed in the war, caught the heroic mood of the day, selling 78,000 copies in its first year of publication. Likewise, the account of her work among the navvies given in English Hearts and English Hands written in 1857 was reassuring in its positive approach to the labouring masses. She also established a convalescence hospital in Brighton during the cholera epidemic in 1866. She died on 12 December 1912 at Feltwell rectory, Norfolk, and was buried at Upshire, Essex, on 17 December.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph South Clerk Street Newington Edinburgh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Trams, shops and people on South Clerk Street in Newington, Edinburgh, Scotland. Newington is an area of Edinburgh, about 15 to 20 minutes walk south of the city centre, the Royal Mile and Princes Street. Newington Railway Station was a railway station on the Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway. It served the southern Edinburgh suburb of Newington and the station site is still visible from Craigmillar Park. Newington station closed in 1962, when passenger rail services were withdrawn from the Edinburgh Suburban line although the line itself was retained for rail freight use. The route continues to be used for freight services to this day, so freight trains avoid Edinburgh's main stations of Edinburgh Waverley and Haymarket, and occasionally diverted passenger trains also pass along this line.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Shops And People Largs Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of shops and people in Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland. From its beginnings as a small village around its kirk, Largs evolved into a busy and popular seaside resort in the nineteenth century. Large hotels appeared and the pier was constructed in 1834. It was not until 1895, however, that the railway made the connection to Largs, sealing the town's popularity. The town is served by the railway line from Glasgow to North Ayrshire. Largs is the birthplace of the actors Daniela Nardini and John Sessions, the footballer Lou Macari and the golfer Sam Torrance. Though not born in Largs, musician and songwriter Graham Lyle of Gallagher and Lyle was brought up there and still returns to visit his holiday home.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Fergus Rennie Family Greenock Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Fergus Rennie and his family from Greenock near Glasgow, Scotland. The Rennie surname has many forms including Rainy, Rainey, Rany, Rennie, Renny, Rennison, and Renison, this is an Anglo Scottish surname. It is or rather was, an endearment form of the original personal name " Reynold ", a compound of the Germanic elements " ragin " meaning " counsel ", and " wald ", rule. This name was first introduced into England by the Viking Scandinavians of the 8th century, and later reinforced at the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 by the French equivalent " Reinald ". Early examples of the surname recordings include Thomas Renie in the 1279 Hundred Rolls of Bedfordshire,England, whilst in 1362, Symon Renny who was recorded as being the bailie of Inverkeithing, Scotland, is believed to be the first known recording in that country.



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