Old Travel Blog Photograph Post Office Finzean Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of people outside the Post Office in Finzean, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In the 10th century the lands of Finzean became the personal property of Scottish Kings, who used the Forest of Birse as a hunting reserve. In the 12th century King William the Lion gifted the area to the Bishops of Aberdeen who continued to own it until the 16th century, during which they gradually sold off all the land. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Farquharson family acquired the whole of the eastern part of Finzean, while the Forest of Birse was owned by the Earl of Aboyne, but with ancient common rights retained by all the inhabitants of Birse parish to this day. Finzean was the subject of many paintings by the artist Joseph Farquharson, whose family have owned Finzean Estate, which occupies the eastern half of Finzean, since the 17th century.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Ironmongers Shop Kirkmichael Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Ironmongers Shop, houses and people in Kirkmichael, a small village located in Strathardle, Perthshire, Scotland. The term ironmonger as a supplier of consumer goods is still widely used in Great Britain, the US equivalent being " hardware store. " In the second half of the 19th century, Victorian ironmongery offered a treasurehouse of appealing metalwork, with elaborate manufacturers’ catalogues offering literally thousands of objects to meet each and every need, almost all of which sought to combine practicality with pleasing design. The second half of the 20th century saw the steady decline of ironmongers’ shops. Although every small town in Britain used to have at least one, their fate has mirrored that of many traditional emporia.



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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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