Old Travel Blog Photograph Post Office Kilmany Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the cottage Post Office in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland. It is notable for being the birthplace of Jim Clark, former world champion Formula One racing car driver. There is a statue of Clark in the village, unveiled in 1997 by Sir Jackie Stewart.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph The Square Kingsbarns Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of children in The Square in Kingsbarns, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The name derives from the area being the location of the barns used to store grain before being transported to the Palace at Falkland. Folk musician James Yorkston was brought up in Kingsbarns.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph City Chambers Dunfermline Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the City Chambers in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The building, constructed in the period between 1875 and 1879, was created by James Campbell Walker who also designed the first Carnegie Library. 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. 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 Vintage Cars Main Street Callander Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of vintage cars on the main street in Callander, Trossachs, Scotland. The town serves as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the first National Park in Scotland, and is often referred to as the Gateway to the Highlands. The second to last person to be tried and imprisoned for the crime of Witchcraft in the UK was Helen Duncan, from Callander, during World War Two. As late as 1845 Scottish Gaelic was still spoken in Callander with two schools still teaching it. 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 Photograph Giraffes Safari Park Blair Drummond Scotland

Old photograph of giraffes, people and ford escort car in the Safari Park in Blair Drummond located five miles North West of Stirling, Scotland.



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