Old Travel Blog Photograph Swimming Pool Stonehaven Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Swimming Pool in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool in Queen Elizabeth Park is an Olympic sized heated open air public pool opened in 1934. It is the northernmost lido in the UK. This 55 yard x 20 yard open air pool is the UK's only art deco Olympic sized sea water lido. The water is heated and the pool is open from late May to early September.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Road To Strathkinness Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the road to Strathkinness located three miles West of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. In 1144 Bishop Robert gave "Lands of Strathkinness" to the St. Andrews Priory. In Reformation times Strathkinness was part of St. Andrews Parish so it lay within the care of St Andrews Parish Church, now called Holy Trinity and the ministers sent preachers to conduct services. Strathkinness school was one of several established in St Andrews parish in 1647. In 1777 a plot of 4 acres was set apart as an endowment for the school and later there was a Free Church school with, in 1864, 170 children while there were 60 children at the parish school. Strathkinness, like other places, experienced dissent and breakaway congregations. The Relief church came in 1799 and faded 20 years later, as did the Methodists who bought their little church. A Secession church also existed for a few years. It eventually reunited with the Church of Scotland and with it brought their minister the Reverend Ralph Robb.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Cantsdam Bridge Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Cantsdam Bridge near Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland. Cant is a common family name in Fife. This bridge is where the old Great North Road, the important overland route between Edinburgh and Inverness in the Highlands, crossed the Netherton or Lochfitty Burn. A burn is a watercourse, in size from a large stream to a small river. The term burn is used in Scotland and England, especially North East England, and in parts of Ulster, Australia and New Zealand. Major work was done on Cantsdam Bridge in 1722. Cantsdam was the name of a few cottages off of Cocklaw Estate, occupied by mechanics and agricultural labourers.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Bowling Green Inverkeithing Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Bowling Green in Inverkeithing, located on the Firth of Forth, Fife, Scotland. Scottish bowlers developed the present flat green game, established rules, worked out a uniform code of laws, and were instrumental in saving the game for posterity. The ancient game of bowls has always been dear to the heart of every true Scot, and it has always held a prominent place in the history and literature of Scotland. To the Scots goes the credit also for giving the game an international background, as emigrant Scots enthusiastically carried the game with them to all parts of the world. Today there are more than 200 public bowling greens in the City of Glasgow alone.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Road To Flowerdale Scotland

Old photograph of the road to Flowerdale, Gairloch, Scotland. These lands have been in the hands of the Clan Mackenzie of Gairloch for hundreds of years. Gairloch is the final resting place of the renowned Gaelic bard Uilleam Ros or William Ross, born 1762, died 1791, known as the Gairloch bard. Ross was born in Broadford on Isle of Skye and travelled extensively throughout the Western Isles, becoming known for his knowledge of different varieties of Gaelic. He composed several famous romantic poems attempting to win the affection of Marion Ross of Stornoway, who apparently never responded to his attentions. Perhaps the most famous of these is Feasgar Luain. Ross settled in the Gairloch are and became a schoolmaster, and died at the age of 28 in Badachro. It is popularly believed that he died of a broken heart.



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