Old Photographs Coupar Angus Scotland

Old photograph of Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland.

Famous Scots from Coupar Angus include;

John Bain " Jock " Sutherland, born March 21, 1889, died April 11, 1948, who was an American football player and coach. He coached college football at Lafayette College from 1919 to 1923, and the University of Pittsburgh from 1924 to 1938, and professional football for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1940 to –1941, and Pittsburgh Steelers from 1946 to 1947. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. A native of Coupar Angus in Scotland, Sutherland got his start in football by playing end at the University of Pittsburgh, America, commonly known as Pitt, under legendary coach Glenn Scobey Warner. Sutherland was named an All-American and played on Pitt's national championship teams in 1915 and 1916.

William Nairne Clark, one of the two protagonists that fought the last recorded Regulation duel with flintlock pistols in Western Australia, was born in Coupar Angus in 1804. Clark and his opponent, George French Johnson, faced each other in Fremantle, Western Australia, on the morning of Friday 6 June 1832. Johnson was fatally wounded in the hip in the encounter. Clark was subsequently charged with, and acquitted of, Johnson's murder. Clark, who had trained as a lawyer,emigrated to Western Australia on the convict ship Eliza in 1830. He initially practised as a lawyer before founding The West Australian Journal newspaper in 1836.


Old photograph of Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Port Of Menteith Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office at Port Of Menteith, Scotland. Port of Menteith is a village and parish in the Stirling district of Scotland, the only significant settlement on the Lake of Menteith. It was established as a burgh of barony, then named simply Port, in 1457 by King James III of Scotland. It lay in the former county of Perthshire.



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Old Photographs Coaltown of Wemyss Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Coaltown of Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Coaltown of Wemyss is the closest village to Wemyss Castle, Fife, Scotland. Cottages originally built for mineworkers. Close to the village are now unworked deep coal mine workings. Originally, it was two villages, Easter and Wester, but when the miners distinctive cottages were expanded by the Wemyss Coal Co in 1860, the two villages were amalgamated as a " model mining village. "

Old photograph of Coaltown of Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph High Street Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of the High Street, Paisley, Scotland. In 1819 riots took place on the High Street by a population committed to parliamentary reform, which in many ways was the start of two decades of agitation for political reform in the town, but which also echoed and reflected Scotland and UK wide struggle for greater democracy.



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Old Photograph Mail Coach Scotland

Old photograph of a Mail Coach outside the Post Office in Colintraive, Argyll, Scotland. Colintraive is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Ferries sail between Colintraive and Rhubodach on the Isle of Bute. It is located on the Kyles of Bute or Loch Riddon on the west coast of the Cowal peninsula. The nearest town of notable size is Dunoon which is a twenty minute drive away on the east coast of the peninsula facing Gourock and the River Clyde, heading to Port Glasgow and Greenock. The village faces the Isle of Bute where a ferry journeys the 100 yard gap between Colintraive and the isle. On the island there is one fairly modest tourist town called Rothesay. Also there is the famous Scalpsie Bay often regarded as one of the best seal viewing points in the world. The name Colintraive derives from Gaelic and means "swimming strait" or " swimming narrows ". In the past, cattle were swum over from the Isle of Bute to Colintraive on their way to the cattle markets of lowland Scotland.



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