Old Photograph Croquet Green Reid Park Forfar Scotland

Old photograph of the Croquet Green in Reid Park in Forfar, Angus, Scotland. The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid 1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.



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Old Photograph Road To The Ferry Kyle of Lochalsh Scotland

Old photograph of the road to the ferry in Kyle of Lochalsh, across from Isle of Skye, Scotland. A village on the North West coast of the Scottish Highlands. It is located on the Lochalsh peninsula, at the entrance to Loch Alsh, opposite the village of Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye. A ferry used to connect the two villages until it was replaced by the Skye Bridge, about a mile to the west, in 1995. Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is connected to Inverness by the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, built in 1897 to improve public transport to the north west of Scotland. The line ends on the water's edge, near where the ferry connection used to run. 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 Lindsay Street Kirriemuir Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on Lindsay Street in Kirriemuir, Scotland. The surname Lindsay is of old British and Anglo Saxon origin, and is a variant of " Lindsey ", an English locational surname from Lindsey in Lincolnshire, England. Early examples include Thomas de Lindesie, Lincolnshire, 1207, and Thomas de Lyndesey, Derbyshire, 1273. David Lindsay, born 1531, died 1613, was bishop of Ross, and chaplain to King James V1; he accompanied the king to Norway to fetch his bride in 1589. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Sir Walter de Lindeseya, which was dated 1124, a witness in the Church Registers of Glasgow, during the reign of King David 1 of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Pier Broadford Scotland

Old photograph of the pier in Broadford, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. West of Broadford in Glen Suardal, on the lower slopes of Beinn na Caillich mountain, is Goir a' Bhlàir, the field of battle. The battle concerned was apparently a decisive action by the Gaelic Clan Mackinnon against the Norsemen. Broadford was a cattle market until 1812, when Thomas Telford built the road from Portree to Kyleakin. Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars settled during the first half of the 19th century. Writing in the middle of the 19th century, Alexander Smith said, " If Portree is the London of Skye, Broadford is its Manchester. " Legend holds that the recipe for the liqueur Drambuie was given by Bonnie Prince Charlie to Clan MacKinnon who then passed it onto James Ross late 19th century. Ross ran the Broadford Innm now the Broadford Hotel, where he developed and improved the recipe, initially for his friends and then later to patrons. Ross then began to sell it further afield and the name was registered as a trademark in 1893.



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Old Photograph Brown Street Buckhaven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Brown Street in Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland. I was born in this village on the East coast of Scotland. The fishing community of Buckhaven is said to have been largely the descendants of Norsemen who settled there in the 9th century. Centuries later, Buckhaven's fisherfolk bought an Episcopal Church in St Andrews in 1869 and transported it stone by stone to Buckhaven, using fishing boats. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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