Old Photograph Tushielaw Scotland

Old photograph of Tushielaw, a settlement on the left bank of the Ettrick Water, 12 miles sout west of Selkirk, Borders, Scotland. The Tushielaw Inn was established as a coaching inn around 1750, although the present building dates from the 1830s. The ruins of the 16th century Tushielaw Tower, property of the Scott family, lie a mile to the south west. A hill of the same name rises behind Tushielaw.



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Old Photograph Meanish Pier Loch Pooltiel Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of Meanish Pier at Loch Pooltiel, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The pier lies at the heart of Glendale at Meanish point and was important to trade and helped to link the area with other parts of Skye and the mainland. Between 1882 and 1883 local crofters here rose up against their landowner who was clearing land of tenants to make way for large scale sheep production. HMS Jackal was sent into Loch Pooltiel to land marines at Meanish Pier to aid in the arrest of the rebellion’s ringleader.



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Old Photograph Pier Papa Westray Orkney Islands Scotland

Old photograph of a pier on the coast at Papa Westray, one of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. According to tradition, in the 8th century AD, the Pictish King Nechtan attempted to seduce a young woman from the island named Triduana, who in response gouged her own eyes out. She later became abbess of a nunnery at Restalrig, now part of Edinburgh, and was in due course canonised as St Tredwell. A chapel was consecrated to her on Papa Westray and became a place of pilgrimage for people with eye complaints. John D. Mackay, born 1909, in Maeback, Papa Westray, died December 1970, was a Scottish schoolteacher. He taught on Stronsay and North Ronaldsay before working as headmaster of Sanday School between 1946 and 1970. He is remembered locally for writing to The Times in 1967 suggesting that Orkney and Shetland be returned to Norway after five centuries as part of Scotland. His letter brought publicity to Orkney and boosted some residents' morale, at a time when absorption into the administrative structure of the Scottish Highlands seemed destined to cause a reduction in the powers of the local authorities.



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Old Photograph Sheep North Ronaldsay Orkney Islands Scotland

Old photograph of sheep on the island of North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland. The North Ronaldsay or Orkney is a breed of sheep from North Ronaldsay, the northernmost island of Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland. It belongs to the Northern European short tailed sheep group of breeds, and has evolved without much cross breeding with modern breeds. It is a smaller sheep than most, with the rams horned and ewes mostly hornless. It was formerly kept primarily for wool, but now the two largest flocks are feral, one on North Ronaldsay and another on the Orkney island of Linga Holm.



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Old Photograph Kirk And Graveyard Aberfoyle Scotland

Old photograph of the old Kirk and graveyard in Aberfoyle, Trossachs, Scotland. The old, now ruined, church in Aberfoyle is situated in an area called Kirkton. The church has 2 mort safes, cast iron coffins, which were used to prevent grave robbing. Body snatchers stole corpses and sold them to doctors and medical students for teaching. Aberfoyle has connections to many historical figures such as Rob Roy and Mary, Queen of Scots. Robert Roy MacGregor was born at the head of nearby Loch Katrine, and his well known cattle stealing exploits took him all around the area surrounding Aberfoyle. It is recorded, for example, that in 1691, the MacGregors raided every barn in the village of Kippen and stole all the villagers livestock.



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