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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Tour Scotland Travel Video Of Old Photographs Of Millport Island of Cumbrae

Tour Scotland Travel video of old photographs of Millport on the Island of Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde on the coast of North Ayrshire, Scotland. During the development of the River Clyde as a main thoroughfare for goods, shipbuilding and smuggling, Millport was a strategic base for Customs and Excise. Several of the streets in Millport are named after crew members of the Revenue cutter Royal George. The Victorian era was a period of rapid growth, both in terms of population, governance, amenities and property. To the west and east of the old harbour, many fine Victorian and Edwardian villas were built, along with new tenements. These still form the backbone of the housing stock. Millport, along with Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, is famous with generations of daytrippers from Glasgow as one of the resorts visited going doon the watter, down the water, meaning taking a trip aboard a River Clyde paddle steamer. Millport has an 18 hole golf course, with views over the Arran hills and the Firth of Clyde. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Of Old Photographs Wishaw North Lanarkshire

Tour Scotland Travel video of old photographs of Wishaw, Scotland. It is located on the edge of the Clyde Valley, 15 miles south east of Glasgow City Centre. The main areas of Wishaw are: Cambusnethan, Coltness, Craigneuk, Gowkthrapple, Dimsdale, Greenhead, Wishawhill, Netherton, Pather and Waterloo. Thomas Canfield Pomphrey was born on 29 November 1881, in Wishaw. He was a pupil at Hamilton Academy, and later a student of architecture at The Glasgow School of Art in 1903 and 1904, after which he trained under Alexander Cullen, the Glaswegian architect. He left Scotland in 1906, emigrating to Toronto, Canada. He moved to New York in 1909, returning to Toronto in 1912. Pomphrey fought in the First World War as a member of the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces, retiring in July 1947, after which he returned to Scotland. In June 1916, he suffered an extensive injury to his right shoulder from a shell fragment, which also broke his right hand. As a result, he spent a year in various hospitals in France, England and Scotland. In 1931, Pomphrey became a member of the Ontario Association of Architects. He died on 8 March 1966. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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