Old Photograph Claude Alexander Shop South Bridge Street Airdrie Scotland

Old photograph of the Claude Alexander tailors shop on South Bridge Street in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Airdrie developed as a market town in the late 17th century following an act of Parliament allowing it to hold a weekly market. It later grew in prominence as a centre for weaving and manufacturing, as well as being the settlement near several coalmines. In the mid 19th century, the town expanded greatly as a result of immigration and the development of iron works and railway links.


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Old Photograph Mackenzie Newsagent Shop Doune Scotland

Old photograph of the Mackenzie Newsagent shop and market cross in Doune, Scotland. The Mackenzie surname including Mckenzie, Macenzy and Makkeney, is from Gaelic " MacCoinnic h" or the son of Coinneach, a personal byname meaning " comely." Kanoth Makkanehy was noted in the records of the family of Rose of Kilravock, dated 1499, and Ewin Makkenye was sone and heir to Kenyeoch Maksorle in the Black Isle in 1500. Gilcrist Makkingze in Wigtownshire was charged with forethought felony in 1513. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Makbeth Makkyneth, a witness at pleas held at Dull, in Angus, and dated 1264. Clan Mackenzie, Scottish Gaelic: Clann Choinnich, is a Scottish clan, traditionally associated with Kintail and lands in Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Town Centre East Kilbride Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of shops and people in the town centre in Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Scottish town of East Kilbride is enclosed by the White Cart River to the west and the Rotten Calder to the east, the latter flowing northwards to join the River Clyde near Cambuslang. This area was previously the site of the small village of East Kilbride, prior to its post-war development. The modern settlement serves as a dormitory town for the city of Glasgow. East Kilbride takes its name from an Irish saint named St Bride or Brigit, who founded a monastery for nuns and monks in Kildare, Ireland in the 6th century. Irish monks introduced her order to Scotland. Kil, from the Gaelic cill, means church or burial place.



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Old Photograph Moray Arms Hotel Lhanbryde Scotland

Old photograph of the Moray Arms Hotel in Lhanbryde located four miles East of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. The origin of the name " Lhanbryde " is thought to be Pictish, meaning the " Church Place of St Bride ". Why the name has emerged in modern times in its very Welsh form is unclear. The village name was recorded as Lamanbride in 1215; Lambride at the end of the 14th century; Lambry in 1600; and Longbride in 1750. Little remains of the church after which Lhanbryde is named. A churchyard stands above the north side of the main road in the centre of the village, but by 1796 the church that stood here, itself probably only the last in a series on the site, was in a state of ruin and was demolished.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Toftcombs Hotel Biggar Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Toftcombs Hotel in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In the 14th century, the Fleming family were given lands in this area by Robert the Bruce, whose cause they had supported. This Scottish town is situated in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, around thirty miles from Edinburgh along the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and Peebles. Biggar was the birthplace of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home and garden at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is set here. The town hosts an annual arts festival, the Biggar Little Festival. The town has traditionally held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay.



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