Old Travel Blog Photograph Auxiliary Golf Course Carnoustie Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Auxiliary Golf Course in Carnoustie, Scotland. Golf is recorded as having been played at Carnoustie in the early 16th century. In 1890, the 14th Earl of Dalhousie, who owned the land, sold the links to the local authority. It had no funds to acquire the property, and public fundraising was undertaken and donated to the council. The Burnside started life in 1892 with the less than glorious name of " Auxiliary ". As golf had become more popular in the late 19th century it had been decided to create this nine hole course to take pressure off the Championship Course. In 1914 the course was increased to 18 holes and by 1934 it was brought up to the standard of the main course and re-titled the Burnside.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Post Office Edrom Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of people outside the cottage Post Office in the village of Edrom, Scotland. Edrom is also a rural Parish of east central Berwickshire being bounded on the north by the Parishes of Bunkle and Preston and Chirnside, on the east by the Parishes of Chirnside, Hutton and Whitsome and Hilton, on the south by the Parishes of Whitsome and Hilton, Swinton and Fogo and on the west by the Parishes of Langton and Duns. It includes the nearby village of Allanton. The railway station in Edrom on the North British Railway's Berwickshire Railway was opened in 1863. The railway line ran from Reston to Earlston, joining the East Coast Main Line to the Waverley Line. It was closed to passenger traffic 10 September 1951. Freight continued until 19 July 1965.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Innerleven Golf Clubhouse Leven Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the view from Innerleven Golf Clubhouse in Leven, Fife, Scotland. Innerleven Golf Club was founded on February 29, 1820 when 15 golfers drew up their first rules. Initially, the name of the club seems to have been Inverleven Golfing Society, referring to the old name of Innerleven. Originally members were required to wear a jacket of King Charles tartan when competing for any prize. By 1866, the name had become Innerleven Golf Club. When Innerleven’s membership declined in the mid 1950s, they amalgamated with Leven Golf Club to form the Leven Golfing Society on 1st September 1, 1957, using the Innerleven clubhouse.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Houses Lower Largo East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses by the beach in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish coastal village has gained fame as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk, born 1676, died 13 December 1721, was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent more than four years as a castaway, from 1704 to 1709, after being marooned by his captain on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He survived that ordeal, but succumbed to tropical illness a dozen years later while serving aboard HMS Weymouth off West Africa.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph School Longhaven Aberdeenshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the School in Longhaven, next to the A90 trunk road, 4 miles South West of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The settlement benefits from a primary school, a hall and post office. Red Peterhead granite was quarried until recently immediately to the south east. There was once a railway station here on the Boddam branch of the Great North of Scotland Railway, but the line closed in 1948.



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