Old Travel Blog Photograph War Memorial Dunfermline Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the War Memorial in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline's most famous son is the entrepreneur and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie who was born in the town in 1835. Among the gifts he gave to his home town, include a free library and public swimming baths. Most important of all, was the donation of the Pittencrieff Estate which he had purchased in 1903 to be converted into Pittencrieff Park. In 1888, two Dunfermline men, John Reid and Robert Lockhart, first demonstrated golf in the USA by setting up a hole in an orchard, before Reid set up America's first golf club the same year, St. Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, New York, with Andrew Carnegie one of the first members.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Haugh Park Cupar Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Haugh Park in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. The town is believed to have grown around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the sheriff and was owned by the earls of Fife. The area became a centre for judiciary as the county of Fife and as a market town catering for both cattle and sheep. The historic town centre is the junction of Bonnygate and the Crossgate. This is where the town's mercat cross, is located with the original shaft being supported by a unicorn. It dates from 1683. To the east is St Catherine Street, home to the burgh chambers and county buildings, both designed by Robert Hutchison. 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 Interior Parish Church Longformacus Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the interior of the parish church in Longformacus in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. There has been a church on this site on the south side of Dye Water since 1243, Extensively rebuilt from a ruinous state in 1730, repaired 1830 and renovated 1892 by George Fortune. Stained glass by Marjorie Kemp and G J Baguley including windows in memory of the Brown family of Longformacus and the Smiths of Whitchester. Longformacus is a village and parish in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. It is located six miles north west of Duns, in the Lammermuir Hills. The Dye Water runs through the village, flowing east towards its confluence with the Whiteadder Water nearby. The opera Lucia di Lammermoor, written by Gaetano Donizetti and based on Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor, was set in Longformacus. The Southern Upland Way, a Long Distance Route which crosses southern Scotland, passes through the village, and the Sir Walter Scott Way from Moffat to Cockburnspath passes through Longformacus. 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 Cottages Crianlarich Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cottages in Crianlarich, Scotland. Crianlarich has been a major crossroads for north and west bound journeys in the Highlands of Scotland since mediaeval times. In the 1750s, two military roads met in the village; in the 19th century, it became a railway junction on what is now the West Highland Line; in the 20th century it became the meeting point of the major A82 and A85 roads. As such, it is designated a primary destination in Scotland, signposted from as far as Glasgow and Paisley in the south, Perth, Perthshire, in the east, Oban in the west and Fort William in the north.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Coffee House And Library Lochearnhead Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of people outside the Coffee House and Library in Lochearnhead, Scotland. Lochearnhead, Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Loch Èireann is a village on the A84 Stirling to Crianlarich road at the foot of Glen Ogle, 14 miles North of the Highland Boundary Fault. It is situated at the western end of Loch Earn where the A85 road from Crieff meets the A84. Loch Earn was on the frontier between Pictland and Dalriada, or Dál Riata, the kingdom of the incoming Scots from Ireland, Dundurn at the east end of the loch being a Pictish frontier fort. This lends weight to the argument that the name Earn therefore comes from Eireann, in other words " the loch of the Irish ". The siege, by the Scots, of the Pictish Fort of Dundurn in 683 AD is mentioned in the Annals of Ulster. Giric, sometimes called Grig, King of Picts and Scots, is said to have been killed at Dundurn in 889, and is buried on Iona.





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