Old Photograph Law's Garage Arbroath Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people, vintage cars and Law's Garage in Arbroath, Scotland. Arbroath is located on the North Sea coast, around 16 miles Eest North East of Dundee and 45 miles South South West of Aberdeen. Arbroath's history as a town begins in the High Middle Ages with the founding of Arbroath Abbey in 1178. Arbroath grew considerably during the Industrial Revolution owing to the expansion of firstly the flax and secondly the jute industries and the engineering sector. A new harbour was built in 1839 and by the 20th century, Arbroath had become one of the larger fishing ports in Scotland.



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Old Photograph Church Duddingston Scotland

Old photograph of the church in Duddingston located next to Holyrood Park in the East of Edinburgh, Scotland. The church was built in or around 1124 by Dodin, a Norman knight, on land granted to Kelso Abbey by King David I of Scotland. Given its proximity to central Edinburgh, Duddingston has long been a favourite location for many of the city’s artists and professionals. The novelist Walter Scott was ordained an elder at Duddingston in 1806. A famous and widely admired minister in the early 19th century, 1805 to 1840, was the Reverend John Thomson, a notable painter and friend of Raeburn and Turner. He referred to his parishioners, and large family, as " ma bairns" and hence one possible explanation of the popular Scottish expression " We’re a' Jock Tamson’s bairns. " He was replaced in 1841 by James Macfarlane who was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1865.



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Old Photograph Royal George Hotel Perth Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal George Hotel by the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. In the 18th century a new bridge was built across the river near the North Inch and to serve it a major new road was cut through this section of the city. Many old buildings were torn down to accommodate it, and new ones erected in their place. The George Inn, as it was known then, was one of them. Across the road once stood a castle, and after its destruction by flood in 1209, a Dominican friary of the Blackfriars was built in its place. It was there that Queen Victoria’s ancestors stayed when they visited Perth, and where the notorious murder of King James I took place.



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Old Photograph Post Office Blackness Road Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office on Blackness Road in Dundee, Scotland. Blackness is an area of the city located to the north of the city's West End and is centred on the Blackness Road, where a number of small, local shops are located. The presence of the Scouring Burn, now diverted underground, meant that the area was attractive for industrial development in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries, modern steam powered machinery requiring a substantial water supply.



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Old Photograph Her Majesty's Theatre Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of Her Majesty's Theatre in Dundee, Scotland. The Theatre opened for drama, musicals, opera and pantomime in the Seagate in October 1885. It was designed by architect William Alexander, who was also Burgh Architect, and it occupied the shell of a large building dating from the start of the century. It held 1,650 people in comfort. It had two serpentine shaped galleries above the stalls, and ten boxes. The foyer had marble staircases, and its fireplace was in carved oak with tiles of scenes from the works of Sir Walter Scott.



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