Old Photograph Balcomie Golf Course Crail Scotland

Old photograph of Balcomie Golf Course by Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Crail Golfing Society is a Scottish golf club established in February 1786 in the Golf Hotel, Crail, Fife. The society is the seventh oldest golf club in the world. Its oldest course, Balcomie, was formally laid out by Old Tom Morris in 1894, but competitions were played there since the 1850. The land upon which golf is played straddles the coast of easternmost promontory of Fife, known as Fife Ness. Balcomie has the unusual combination of three par fives, six par threes and nine par fours, producing a tough par of 69.



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Old Photograph Roome Bay Avenue Crail Scotland

Old photograph of cars and cottages on Roome Bay Avenue in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Crail is on the Fife coastal walking route. Access to beach is off Roome Bay Crescent. The beach is about 10 minutes walk from the centre of Crail.



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Old Photograph Dining Room Blairquhan Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the dining room in Blairquhan Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle is located near Maybole in South Ayrshire. Four different families have lived at Blairquhan or on its lands. The McWhirters built the first tower house about 1346. The Kennedys then inherited the estate through marriage and built the remainder of the old castle about 1573. In the early 17th century the Whitefords took over, but in 1798, suffering the effects of a bank crash, they sold Blairquhan to Sir David Hunter Blair, 3rd Baronet, the second son of Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet who had married Jean Blair, the daughter and heiress of John Blair of Dunskey in Wigtownshire in 1770. When Jean Blair inherited her father’s estate in 1777, the family took the additional surname of Blair. In 1820, Sir David commissioned Scottish architect William Burn to design a new house on Blairquhan. The old castle, which had become ruinous due to previous fires and neglect, was torn down for a new the Tudor style castle.



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Old Photograph Drawing Room Blairquhan Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the drawing room in Blairquhan Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland. A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. In a large 16th to early 18th century Scottish house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could " withdraw " for more privacy.



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Old Photograph Houses And Harbour Hynish Isle of Tiree Scotland

Old photograph of houses and the harbour at Hynish on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. The buildings at Hynish were started in 1837 and comprised a harbour, workshops and lodgings for those involved in the building of the Skerryvore Lighthouse. In 1842 the Skerryvore Lighthouse was completed and in the following year the Hynish pier was extended to allow the lighthouse vessel to berth.



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