Old Travel Blog Photograph Cadsom Street Hamilton Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Tram, shops, and a Policeman directing traffic on Cadsom Street in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This is the fifth largest Scottish town, excluding cities, after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld. Charles Alston was born in Hamilton in 1683. and was apparently raised by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton. In 1715 he went to Leyden to study under the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave. On his return to Scotland he became lecturer in materia medica and botany at Edinburgh and also superintendent of the botanical gardens. He was a critic of Linnaeus's system of plant classification. He was appointed Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1716, holding the position until 1760. He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, immediately east of the church. The tree genus Alstonia is named after him.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Road To Balmoral Castle Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the road to Balmoral Castle, Scotland. Balmoral has been one of the residences for members of the British Royal Family since 1852, when the estate and its original castle were purchased privately by Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria. They remain as the private property of the royal family and are not the property of the Crown. Soon after the estate was purchased by the royal family, the existing house was found to be too small and the current Balmoral Castle was commissioned. The architect was William Smith of Aberdeen, although his designs were amended by Prince Albert.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Garry Restaurant Pass of Killiecrankie Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Garry Restaurant near the Pass of Killiecrankie, Perthshire, Scotland. The Battle of Killiecrankie, Gaelic: Blàr Choille Chnagaidh, also referred to as Rinrory by contemporaries, took place on 27 July 1689 during the First Jacobite uprising between a combined Scottish and Irish Jacobite force and those supporting the new government of King William III. The Jacobites achieved a stunning victory but suffered heavy casualties, including their leader. Towards the north end of Killiecrankie Pass is the famed Soldier's Leap, where one of Mackay's fleeing men managed to jump the foaming cataract between two fearsome rocks, and so escape the pursuing enemy during the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Hotel Tummel Bridge Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Hotel at Tummel Bridge, Perthshire, Scotland. A Hydroelectric Power Station was built near the hotel for the Scottish Power Company as part of the Tummel Valley hydro-electric scheme, the station, fed by a catchment area of 381 square miles, gathered into Loch Rannoch and a smaller reservoir at Dunalastair, and delivered from an aqueduct. Two generating sets, producing a total of 34mW, are unusual in that each turbine has two horizontal runnes and spiral casings.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Blacksmith Kirkmichael Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Blacksmith in Kirkmichael, a small village located in Strathardle, Perthshire, Scotland. A blacksmith was also a farrier, a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves, if necessary. A farrier combined some blacksmith's skills, fabricating, adapting, and adjusting metal shoes, with some veterinarian's skills, knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the lower limb, to care for horses feet.



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