Old Travel Blog Photograph Post Office Lochgilphead Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Post Office, Argyll Hotel, horse and cart, shops, buildings and people on Argyll Street in Lochgilphead, Scotland. In the World War Two movie, 633 Squadron, Lochgilphead's main street features briefly in an aerial shot, as the bombers of 633 Squadron fly over the unnamed town en route to the target in Norway. The James Bond film From Russia with Love used locations in Lochgilphead for shots. The local cinema was used to watch screen rushes each day for the cast and crew.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Thatched House High Street Kilsyth Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a thatched house and people on the High Street in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. From earliest recorded times Kilsyth was one of the main routes between Glasgow, Falkirk and Edinburgh, and is very close to the Roman Antonine Wall, the Forth and Clyde Canal. The Civil War Battle of Kilsyth took place on hillsides between Kilsyth and Banton, North Lanarkshire in 1645. Kilsyth was later closely associated with the various attempts by the Jacobites to regain the crown. The town economy has shifted over the past three centuries from farming, handloom weaving and extractive industries to light engineering, transport and service industries. Many of the townsfolk of working age now commute to work in nearby Glasgow and other larger towns nearby.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Bonhill Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses and chimneys in Bonhill, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The textile finishing industry came to Bonhill with a print works, the Dalmonach Works which started in 1786. It burnt down in 1812, and was rebuilt by Henry Bell. A second textile works opened in 1793, and two more works had begun by 1840. Some closed shortly afterwards, but one lasted to 1936. The Dalmonach Works itself featured a school outside the main gates, serving children from the area as well as children employed in the works. After the works closed in 1929, its buildings were used an army barracks during World War II.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Gardens And House Balcarres Colinsburgh Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the house and gardens at Balcarres by Colinsburgh, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house is based on a mansion built in 1595 by John Lindsay, born 1552, died 1598, second son of the ninth Earl of Crawford. The house became the family seat of the Earl of Crawford. The present house is the result of substantial extensions in the early nineteenth century, using part of a fortune made in India, but preserves much of the original mansion.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Bell Baxter High School Cupar Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Bell Baxter High School in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. Bell Baxter High School, originally the Cupar Grammar School, was founded in 1889 when the Madras Academy combined with Sir David Baxter's Institute for Young Ladies. The oldest part of the Westport building was first used in 1890 with the rest of the building being built in 1929. Because of the large number of pupils using this site a great number of wooden huts were built to accommodate them.



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