Old Travel Blog Photograph Levengrove Park Dumbarton Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Levengrove Park in Dumbarton, Scotland. Dumbarton is 15 miles from Glasgow. Levengrove Park sits on a portion of the old estate of Levengrove and encompasses the site of Levengrove House. the estate was split up and sold off for development in around 1867. In 1894, the remaining unsold portions of the Levengrove Estate were bought by Messrs. William Denny and John MacMillan of Dumbarton, both eminent local shipbuilders. They arranged for the land to be laid out as a public park for the people of the town and then gifted it back to the Town Council. The park was opened in 1885 in a large ceremony involving a procession of all the town's tradesmen.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Castle Hotel Greenlaw Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Castle Hotel in Greenlaw, located in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills on Blackadder Water at the junction of the A697 and the A6105 in the Borders, Scotland. Thomas Gibson was born in Greenlaw on on 8 January 1825, the son of Thomas Gibson, born 1751, died 1820, and his wife Helen Lunham. He was educated at the free church school in Greenlaw. He went to Canada West in 1854. He served as reeve for Howick Township for 7 years. He ran unsuccessfully in Huron North in 1867. The township of Gibson, now part of the Township of Georgian Bay in the Muskoka District, was named after him. He died in January 1901 and is buried in Wroxeter, Ontario with his wife Elizabeth, born 1830, died 1878. His nephew was the noted mathematician Professor George Alexander Gibson, born 1858, died 1930.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Fishwives Harbour Dunbar Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of fishwives by the harbour in Dunbar, Scotland. A town of three harbours, Dunbar was once a major herring and whaling port. Its old harbour dates from 1710. Fishwives had very distinctive clothing, brightly coloured, often with a blue shawl. They were women from fishing villages whose men were out fishing or unmarried women. They often had to carry big creels on their back which were a fair weight, about 100lbs. From Dunbar inland to Lauder in the Borders ran the Herring Road, used by the fishwives heading to their rural customers. They would walk up to 30 miles a day to markets, selling the fish or bartering them for meal and eggs.





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Old Travel Blog Photograph Bank Corner Garrowhill Glasgow Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Bank, shops, houses and people on Bank Corner in Garrowhill, Glasgow, Scotland. Garrowhill was developed as a residential area in the mid 1930s, built as a housing development neighbouring the then village of Baillieston. During the slum clearances in the 60's Garrowhil grew as council housing and estates were built in the area as large work was being done building the neighbouring area of Easterhouse where many people were moved from the inner city tenements into both Garrowhil and Easterhouse. Garrowhill was brought within Glasgow's city boundaries in 1975 along with Baillieston, under the terms of the Local Government Scotland Act, 1973. Although sometimes considered separate from Baillieston, Garrowhill along with Swinton and Barrachnie are within the Baillieston Ward of Glasgow City Council.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Shetland Ponies Sailing Boat Harbour Lerwick Shetland Islands Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Shetland Ponies in a sailing boat in the harbour in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Shetland ponies originated in the Shetland Isles, located northeast of mainland Scotland. Small horses have been kept on the Shetland Isles since the Bronze Age. People who lived on the islands probably later crossed the native stock with ponies imported by Norse settlers. Shetland ponies also were probably influenced by the Celtic Pony, brought to the islands by settlers between 2000 and 1000 BC. The harsh climate and scarce food developed the ponies into extremely hardy animals.



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