Old Travel Blog Photograph Interior Palace Culross Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the interior of the Palace in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The interior of the Palace has pine panelled walls, ceiling paintings of biblical scenes. This Scottish palace was constructed between 1597 and 1611 by Sir George Bruce, the Laird of Carnock. Bruce was a successful merchant who had a flourishing trade with other Forth ports, the Low Countries and the Baltic countries. He had interests in coal mining and salt production, and is credited with sinking the world's first coal mine to extend under the sea. Although never a royal residence, King James VI visited the Palace in 1617.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Post Office Roseneath Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph the Post Office and cottages in Roseneath on the western shore of the Gare Loch, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The Rosneath area has been settled from at least 600 onwards, when St. Modan, a travelling missionary, founded a church there. The name Rosneath may have its roots in this era; it is derived from the Gaelic Rossnachoich, meaning " Virgin's Headland. " From 1941 to 1945, Rosneath was home to an important naval base, thanks to its location in the well sheltered natural harbour of the Gare Loch. The Americans used Rosneath Castle as a base of operations. The castle was then abandoned and the remains demolished in 1961. John Anderson was born in Roseneath on 26 September 1726. He was a Scottish natural philosopher and liberal educator at the forefront of the application of science to technology in the industrial revolution, and of the education and advancement of working men and women. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was the posthumous founder of Anderson's University, later Anderson's Institution, which ultimately evolved into the University of Strathclyde. John Anderson died in Glasgow at the age of 69. He is buried with his grandfather in Ramshorn Cemetery on Ingram Street in Glasgow.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Paddle Steamer Pier Tarbet Loch Lomond Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a paddle steamer at the pier in Tarbet, Loch Lomond, Scotland. Traditionally on the northern fringes of the historic County of Dunbarton, Tarbet stands on an isthmus where Loch Long and Loch Lomond come close. The village of Arrochar stands at the head of Loch Long, at the other side of the isthmus. Arrochar and Tarbet railway station, on the West Highland Line, stands between the two villages.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Sturckgown House Tarbet Loch Lomond Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Sturckgown House, a country house located South of Tarbet, on the west bank of Loch Lomond and Ben Lomond, Scotland. It is off the A82 road, which connects Glasgow via Fort William, with Inverness in the Highlands. Stuckgowan House was built around the year 1820, from local quarry stone.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Hairpin Bend Road To Arrochar Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of vintage cars on a hairpin bend on the road to Arrochar, Scotland. Arrochar is a Scottish village located near the head of Loch Long in Argyll and Bute. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is overlooked by a group of mountains called the Arrochar Alps. For over five centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane and before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line and native to their Highland homeland of tall peaks and deep lochs just above the waist of Scotland. The settlement was a key target for Viking raiders who took their boats two miles overland to Tarbet to attack the unprotected inland settlements at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs.



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