Old Travel Blog Photograph Cottages Cupar Road Auchtermuchty Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cottages on Cupar Road in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. Until 1975 Auchtermuchty was a royal burgh, established under charter of King James V in 1517. There is evidence of human habitation in the area dating back over 2,000 years, and the Romans are known to have established a camp in the south east corner of the town. In the past, the linen industry was a major source of work in the town, but in the early 18th century the firm of John White was established, bringing the town its first foundry, there were two eventually. There was even a whisky distillery in operation from 1829 to 1929, when Prohibition in the U.S.A. led to its closure.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Baronald House Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Baronald House, on the northern edge of Lanark off the Carluke to Lanark Road within the Clyde Valley in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. John George Robertson, a botanist and plant collector, who lived and farmed in Tasmania and Australia from 1831 to 1854, returned to Scotland and purchased Baronald in 1857. He built glasshouses including a vinery and orchard house on the steep slope to the side of his house for his collections of Australian plants. Robertson’s plant collection was put up for sale separately following his death in 1862. Baronald was remodelled for Allen Farie of Farme, Rutherglen in the late 1880s by Sir John James Burnett, a well known architect. The Faries continued to own Baronald until the Second World War. In 1944, Baronald became a private hospital where injured soldiers were treated. The hospital continued after the War. By 1963 the house became a hotel.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Aytounhill House Newburgh Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Aytounhill House by Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. For some time the industries in Newburgh chiefly consisted of the making of linen and floorcloth, malting and quarrying, and there were fisheries, especially of salmon. The harbour was used for the transshipment of the cargoes of Perth-bound vessels of over 200 tons. But most of these industries have now gone. A linoleum factory, owned by Courtaulds, which had been the town's principal employer, closed in May 1980 after a large fire destroyed much of the building.

Recorded in the spellings of Ayton and Hayton, this is a Northern English habitational surname name from any of various places called Ayton and Hayton in the counties of Cumberland, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and elsewhere in England. The first recording as a placename was that of Great Ayton in the year 881 in the chronicles of Yorkshire and in 1066 as the spelling of Etan, and then to Aton in 1279



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Salsburgh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cottages in Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Salsburgh is a semi rural former coal mining village. The closest major town to the village is Shotts 3 miles to the south east and Airdrie 6 miles to the north west. There has been a community in the area for over 600 years, although the present village dates back to 1729. At that time only a row of four houses existed, named " Muirhall, Girdhimstrait, Merchanthall and Craighead ". Craighead was home to a Mr. Young and his wife Sally, and when Young sold some of his land to construct more houses it was decided that it would be named " Sallysburgh ". Through time the name was shortened to Salsburgh. 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 Putting Green Golf Course Pitlochry Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of people on the Putting Green by the Golf Course in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. In the early 20th century, the members of both the Pitlochry Golf Club and the Pitlochry Ladies Golf Club played over a nine-hole course situated on the banks of the River Tummel. The holes weaved their way down from Faskally Woods to the pavilion at the Recreation Ground and back again. The new golf course was constructed during 1908 with Willie Fernie of Troon being commissioned as the initial designer. He saw the natural beauty of the Balnacraig and Drumchorry farms upon which the course now rests and set about using the undulating landscape to its full potential.



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