Old Travel Blog Photograph Earl Of Selkirk Memorial Cross Kirkcudbright Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Earl Of Selkirk Memorial Cross in Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The plaque on the front says " Erected by Cecely Louisa, Countess of Selkirk, in loving memory of her husband Dunbar James, Earl of Selkirk, born 22 April 1809; died 11 April 1885 ". Another plaque at the side remembers Cecely Louisa, Countess of Selkirk, born 1836, died 1920. In 1453 Kirkcudbright became a Royal burgh, and about a century later the magistrates of the town obtained permission from Mary Queen of Scots, to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church. One of its most famous prisoners in the Tolbooth prison was John Paul Jones, hero of the American navy, who was born in nearby Kirkbean.Kirkcudbright has had a long association with the Glasgow art movement, which started when several artists, including the Glasgow Boys and the famed Scottish Colourists, such as Samuel Peploe and Francis Cadell, based themselves in the area over a 30 year period from 1880 to 1910, establishing the Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony. Many of them moved to the town from Glasgow, including Edward Hornel, George Henry and Jessie M. King. 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 Creagan Bridge Loch Creran Scotland

Old Photograph of Creagan Bridge which crosses Loch Creran, Scotland. This railway bridge once carried the Ballachulish branch of the Callander and Oban Railway, a line which closed in 1966. Loch Creran is a Scottish a sea loch in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland. It is about six miles long from its head at Invercreran to its mouth on the Lynn of Lorne, part of Loch Linnhe. The loch separates the areas of Benderloch to the south and Appin to the north. The island of Eriska lies at the mouth of the loch.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Kirkconnel Hall Ecclefechan Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Kirkconnel Hall in Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This building was inherited by Archibald Arnott in the early 1800s. Archibald was a surgeon with the 11th dragoon regiment, and was posted to Saint Helena, where in 1821 he was called upon to attend Napoleon Bonaparte in his last illness, and he was there until his death on 5th May 1821. Before Dr Arnott left Saint Helena, he took a cutting of a Willow Tree which was growing next to Napoleons grave, and when he returned to Kirkconnel Hall, he planted it in the gardens, where it remains today.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Wester Close Newhaven Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses and fishwives on Wester Close in Newhaven in Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish village played a part in the birth of photography. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson did many studies of the fishwives of Newhaven. A close, is a Scots term for alleyway, although they may be individually named close, entry, court, or wynd.





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Tour Scotland Travel Video Glencoe Massacre Memorial Monument Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of the Glencoe Massacre Memorial Monument on ancestry visit to the village of Glencoe in the Highlands of Scotland. Not far from here on 13 February 1692, MacIain, Chief of the MacDonalds of Glencoe and 37 of his clansmen were murdered by a militia of the Earl of Argyll's regiment in the infamous Massacre of Glencoe. Cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe and covers the grave o' Donald.

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