Old Photographs Roberton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Roberton village located five miles from Hawick, Scotland. The surname Roberton is of territorial origin, coming from the ancient manor of the same name, now in the parish of Roberton in Lanarkshire. A charter, granted at Lesmahago by Hugh, son of Robert, son Waldeve de Bigar, was witnessed by Robert of Robertstun in 1228. In 1296, Steven de Roberton of the county of Lanark render homage to England’s King Edward I, and, sometime between 1304 and 1305, Master Stephen de Rodberdeston, or Roberdestone, was clerk to Sir James Dalilegh. John of Monfode was given the lands of Robertstoun in Lanarkshire by King Robert I at sometime before 1329. In 1408, Stephen de Roberton was granted letters of safe conduct to travel from Henry IV of England. In Glasgow, in 1440, John de Robertoun was presbyter, and, in 1487, the lands of Modervile, now Motherwell, were owned by John of Robertone of that Ilk.





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Old Photographs Cumbernauld Scotland

Old photograph of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Cumbernauld's history stretches to Roman times, with a settlement near the Antonine Wall, the furthest and most northerly boundary of the Roman Empire. After the Second World War Glasgow was suffering from chronic shortages of housing and poor housing conditions, particularly in areas such as the Gorbals. As a direct result Cumbernauld was designated a new town in 1955.





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Old Photograph Dundrennan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Dundrennan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Many houses feature stones taken directly from the abbey ruins after it fell into disrepair in the 17th century.



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Old Photograph Chair Scotland

Old photograph of a young Crofter making a chair outside a cottage on the Orkney Islands, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Coldingham Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Coldingham village near Eyemouth, Scotland. Before the Reformation a vaguely defined jurisdiction known as Coldinghamshire was linked to Coldingham Priory and extended along the east coast of Berwickshire, The priory continued in its religious purposes until 1560, when it was partially destroyed during the Scottish Reformation. However, a portion of it continued its religious activities until 1650, when it was fortified against Oliver Cromwell. After a siege of two days, the main tower in which the besieged defended themselves was so shattered by artillery that they were forced to capitulate. This great tower of the original priory finally collapsed about 1777. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

Old photograph of Coldingham beach near Eyemouth, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Carronbridge Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and children in Carronbridge, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Carronbridge Sawmill is located in the village. It was built in the 1850s for the Duke of Buccleuch's Drumlanrig estate.



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Old Photograph Crossford Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Crossford village located one mile West of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. At the beginning of the 19th century it is recorded that some 50 handloom weavers were at work in their cottages in this Scottish village.




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Tour Scotland Video Pipe Band Christmas Lights Switch On Blairgowrie Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Pipe Band marching into town at the Christmas Lights Switch On on ancestry, genealogy history visitand trip to the Wellmeadow, a park in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
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Tour Scotland Video Lyrics Choir Christmas Lights Switch On Blairgowrie Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Lyrics Choir at the Christmas Lights Switch On on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Wellmeadow, a park in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
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Tour Scotland Video Drum Corps Christmas Lights Switch On Blairgowrie Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Drum Corps at the Christmas Lights Switch On on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Wellmeadow, a park in Blairgowrie, Perthshire. The Drum Corps marching into town over the bridge which spans the River Ericht.

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Tour Scotland Video Perthshire Brass Band Christmas Lights Switch On Blairgowrie Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Perthshire Brass Band at the Christmas Lights Switch On on ancestry, genealogy history visit and trip to the Wellmeadow, a park in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
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Tour Scotland November Photograph Video Level Crossing Forteviot Perthshire

Tour Scotland November video shot at dusk of a ScotRail diesel passenger train crossing the level crossing at Forteviot, Strathearn, Perthshire, Scotland. A level crossing, or grade crossing, is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right of way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion. Other names include railway crossing, road through railroad, railroad crossing, and train crossing.

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Old Photograph Lochmaben Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and car in Lochmaben located four miles West of Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Located near the English border, Lochmaben was a crucial stronghold that frequently changed hands during the Wars of Scottish Independence.



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Old Photograph Smallest Cemetery In Scotland

Old photograph of the smallest cemetery in Scotland located in Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. This graveyard measured just 21ft by 14ft. The Darlings of Appletreeleaves were influential local landowners and this was once their private cemetery.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Video Sunset Friarton Bridge Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Winter video of sunset over Friarton Bridge on visit to River Tay just outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish bridge which spans the River Tay forms part of the important east coast road corridor from Edinburgh through to Dundee and Aberdeen. It is the single largest structure on the M90, a title it will hold until the completion of the second Forth Road Bridge in 2016.

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Tour Scotland Winter Video Photograph Setting Sun Friarton Bridge Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Winter video of the sun setting over Friarton Bridge on visit to River Tay just outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish bridge which spans the River Tay forms part of the important east coast road corridor from Edinburgh through to Dundee and Aberdeen.

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Old Photograph Ecclefechan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, church and people in Ecclefechan, Scotland. Thomas Carlyle, born 1795, died 1881, the essayist, satirist and historian was born in Ecclefechan on the 4th of December 1795 at The Arched House. Carlyle left Ecclefechan at the age of 13 and walked the 84 miles to Edinburghm in order to attend university. In 1828 he moved to Craigenputtock with his wife Jane. He never forgot his roots and insisted that Ecclefechan should become his final resting place. He was buried in Ecclefechan churchyard on 5 February 1881.


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Old Photograph Railway Station Hawick Scotland

Old photograph of the signal box in the railway station in Hawick, Scotland. The last train to cross Hawick station viaduct did so on 18 April 1971. The South signalbox was demolished on the 13th of July 1972, while work on dismantling the station buildings and goods shed started on the 20th of January 1975. Demolition of the viaduct over the River Teviot commenced nine months later, on the 1st of September 1975. After the closure and lifting of the line, the parcels office at Hawick and Galashiels remained open and British Rail vans continued to carry parcels traffic by road for a few more years.




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Old Photograph Carrington Scotland

Old photograph of church and cottages in Carrington village which is located to the south of the town of Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland. This Scottish village is located to the south of the Scottish Capital city Edinburgh. The church tower is unusually tall for a comparatively small church and its design was copied, on a larger scale, for Kilconquhar Parish Church in the East Neuk of Fife. The Carrington Parish Church was built in 1710. It closed for regular worship in 1975, and has been converted into business premises. The congregation united with nearby Cockpen Church to form the current Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church.



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Old Photograph Busby Scotland

Old photograph of Busby located in East Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. Until 1780 Busby village consisted of a few cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns. Big change started after 1780 with the founding of Busby's first Cotton Mill. This was at Newmill, on Cartsbridge lands on the opposite side of the River Cart. Busby and Newmill each had several earlier mills. Busby itself had Busby Meal Mill at the end of Field Road, and Busby Waulk Mill in the Glen. Newmill also had two mills, situated together at the waterfall. The first was another early Meal Mill and the second a more recent Lint Mill. The cotton mill built in 1780 was on a completely different scale to the old rural mills. It attracted many families to settle in the area, and the centre of Busby swung from the old declining fermtoun on the Lanarkshire side of the River Cart, to Newmill on the Renfrewshire side.



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Old Photograph The Cluanie Inn Scotland

Old photograph of The Cluanie Inn at the head of Glenshiel, Scotland. This Scottish glen runs 9 miles from south east to north west, from the Cluanie Inn at the western end of Loch Cluanie and the start of Glenmoriston to sea level at the village of Shiel Bridge and Loch Duich.


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Old Photograph Little Wamphray Scotland

Old photograph of thatched cottages in Little Wamphray village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. To the south east of old Wamphray, new houses of were built from about 1760 along what used to be the main road between Carlisle and Glasgow, which was a Roman road before that. They were part of an improvement scheme for the Wamphray estate. Wamphray derives its name, from the Gaelic signifying " the deep glen in the forest, " from the location in a sequestered and thickly wooded vale on the south side of the Water of Wamphray.



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Old Photograph Dunvegan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Dunvegan village on the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Dunvegan sits on the shores of the large Loch Dunvegan and is famous for Dunvegan Castle, seat of the chief of Clan MacLeod.


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Old Photograph Mossend Scotland

Old photograph of children, cottages and houses in Mossend located to the east of its sister town Bellshill, and to the west of the large town of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Mossend first appears on an early Timothy Pont map at the end of the 16th century as Mossid and the name most likely originates from the area being at the end of Moss land. Mining is the reason why the town began to expand. The arrival of Iron and Steel working industry and the attendant railway put Mossend on the map.



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Old Photograph Tranent Scotland

Old photograph of cottage, houses and people in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland. It is approximately eleven miles east of Edinburgh. It was here that the Tranent Militia Riot, known as the Massacre of Tranent, took place in 1797, when local people were killed by soldiers after protesting against conscription into the British Army. One of the 12 victims Jackie Crookston is depicted on the memorial that commemorates the dead in Civic Square.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Video Sunset Over Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Winter video of sunset over Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Video Sunset And Trees Scone Perthshire

Tour Scotland Winter video of sunset and trees on visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Coylton Scotland

Old photograph of cottage and houses in Coylton village in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Coylton was the home to one of Ayrshire's celebrated artists. Robert Bryden, born 1865, died 1939, who was born in the village. After a period working in Ayr, he became a modeller of bronze busts which are highly regarded. Among his works are bronze portraits of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in Ayr Town Hall. He also specialized in carved wooded figures, a collection of which are to be found at Rozelle. Bryden was also responsible for the Coylton War Memorial.


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Old Photographs Buchlyvie Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Buchlyvie village in Stirlingshire, Scotland. Buchlyvie was granted Burgh of Barony status in 1672, and by the eighteenth century was a mining village served by two railway lines. Buchlyvie Junction formed the intersection of the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway, which linked Stirling and Balloch, and the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which ran north to Aberfoyle. Passenger services closed in 1951, and the railway itself closed in 1959.



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Old Photographs Markinch Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and children in Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. During the industrial revolution in the middle of the 19th century, the old village started to adapt to spinning and weaving production. The use of water wheels of the corn and meal mills encouraged new industries to begin along the River Leven on land between Auchmuty, now part of Glenrothes, and Milton of Balgonie in the form of paper mills, bleach mills and ironworks. Papermaking was also an important local employer based on the town's close proximity to the River Leven.



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Old Photograph Roybridge Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station is on the West Highland Line at Roybridge located three miles East of Spean Bridge, Scotland. Both of the parents of the only recognized saint in Australia. Mary MacKillop, lived in Roybridge, prior to emigrating to Australia. MacKillop visited Roybridge in the 1870s where the local Catholic church, St Margaret's, now has a shrine to her. Mary Helen MacKillop was born on 15 January 1842 in what is now the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria, at the time part of an area called Newtown in the then British colony of New South Wales, to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Although she continued to be known as " Mary ", when she was baptised six weeks later she received the names Maria Ellen. MacKillop's father, Alexander MacKillop, was born in Perthshire, and had been educated at the Scots College in Rome and at Blairs College in Kincardineshire, for the Catholic priesthood but at the age of 29 left, just before he was due to be ordained. He migrated to Australia and arrived in Sydney in 1838. MacKillop's mother, Flora MacDonald, born in Fort William, in the Highlands, she had left Scotland and arrived in Melbourne in 1840. Her father and mother married in Melbourne on 14 July 1840. MacKillop was the eldest of their eight children. Her younger siblings were Margaret, born 1843, died 1872, John born 1845, died 1867, Annie born 1848, died 1929, Alexandrina, born 1850, died 1882, Donald born 1853, died 1925), Alick, who died at 11 months old, and Peter born 1857, died 1878. Donald became a Jesuit priest and worked among the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. Lexie also became a Josephite.



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Old Photograph Corsewall Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Corsewall Lighthouse at Corsewall Point, Kirkcolm near Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. First lit in 1817, it overlooks the North Channel of the Irish Sea. The definition of the name Corsewall is the place or well of the Cross. Corsewall Lighthouse was automated in 1994.

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Old Photograph Rannoch Station Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station on the West Highland Line which serves the area of Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Although the railway links the station with Glasgow and Fort William on the West Highland Line, the station area is otherwise more closely linked, by road, with central Highland towns and villages on or near the A9 road. The B846 road meets the A9 between Pitlochry and Blair Atholl, about 34 miles east of the station. Rannoch station opened to passengers on the 7th of August 1894.


Old video of the railway station on the West Highland Line which serves the area of Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
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Old Photograph Fraserburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish railway station opened in 1865 and closed to passengers in 1965. The railway line was built by the Formartine and Buchan Railway Company, which became part of the Great North of Scotland Railway.




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Old Photographs Wick Scotland

Old photograph of the High Street in Wick, Scotland.

Old photograph of the railway station in Wick, Scotland. The station was built by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway, opening the line in 1874. On the 1st of July 1903, the station became the junction with the Wick and Lybster Light Railway. The last trains to Lybster ran in 1944, although the line was not officially closed until 1951.



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Old Photograph Salvation Army Band Scotland

Old photograph of a Salvation Army Band in Paisley, Scotland. The Salvation Army was founded in the East End of London, England in 1865 by one time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine. Originally, Booth named the organisation the East London Christian Mission. The name The Salvation Army developed from an incident during 19th and 20th May. William Booth was dictating a letter to his secretary George Scott Railton and said, " We are a volunteer army. " Bramwell Booth heard his father and said, " Volunteer! I'm no volunteer, I'm a regular ! " Railton was instructed to cross out the word " volunteer" and substitute the word " salvation ". The Salvation Army was modeled after the military, with its own flag and its own hymns, often with words set to popular and folkloric tunes sung in the pubs. Booth and the other soldiers in " God's Army " would wear the Army's own uniform, for meetings and ministry work. He became the " General " and his other ministers were given appropriate ranks as " officers ". Other members became " soldiers. "



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Christmas Fair Walk Princes Street Edinburgh

Tour Scotland Winter video of a Christmas Fair walk along Princes Street near Edinburgh Castle on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Stone Isle Of Tiree Scotland

Old photograph of the Ringing Stone on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. This rock known in Gaelic as Clach a' Choire’ is about ten feet across and is struck by small hand held stones. It’s said that if it is ever moved, the island will sink back into the ocean. The Tiree name derives from Tìr Iodh, meaning, land of the corn, from the days of the 6th century Celtic missionary and abbot St Columba. Tiree provided the monastic community on the island of Iona, south east of the island, with grain. A number of early monasteries once existed on Tiree itself, and several sites have stone cross slabs from this period.



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Old Photograph Watten Scotland

Old photograph of Watten located eight miles West of Wick, in Caithness, Scotland. The village is on The Far North railway line but trains stopped calling at the village in 1960. The railway station is now a private house. A military camp was built in Watten during World War II, in early 1943, and at the end of the war this became POW Camp 165. This had been described as the most secretive prisoner of war camp in Britain because many prominent Nazis were moved there from POW Camp 21 at Comrie in Perthshire. These prisoners included Gunter d'Alquen, Himmler's chief propagandist, leading U-boat captain Otto Kretschmer, dubbed the Wolf of the Atlantic, and SS-Sturmbannführer Max Wünsche, one of Hitler's top aides. The camp closed in 1948.



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Old Photograph Rubislaw Quarry Scotland

Old photograph of Rubislaw Quarry by Aberdeen, Scotland. John Smith and Archibald Simpson were architects who constructed some of Aberdeen's best known buildings from granite in the early 19th century. Waterloo Bridge in London, the terrace of the Houses of Parliament and the Forth Rail Bridge were also constructed with granite from Aberdeen. Matthew Forster Heddle found the quarry a good source for the minerals tourmaline and beryl. The fine grey granite from the quarry is visible in the majority of Aberdeen's buildings, but Rubislaw Quarry has been closed since 1971.



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Old Photograph Sligachan Scotland

Old photograph of a crofters cottage at Sligachan, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Sligachan is close to the Cuillin mountains with a good viewpoint for seeing the Black Cuillin mountains. Tradition has it that the Lord of the Isles attacked Skye in 1395, but William MacLeod met the MacDonalds at Sligachan and drove them back to Loch Ainort. There they found that their galleys had been moved offshore by the MacAskills, and every invader was killed. The spoils were divided at Creag an Fheannaidh, Rock of the Flaying or Creggan ni feavigh, Rock of the Spoil, sometimes identified with the Bloody Stone in Harta Corrie below the heights of Sgurr nan Gillean.



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Old Photograph Longnewton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Longnewton village located on the Ale Water three miles South of St Boswells in the Borders of Scotland. John Younger, born 1785, died 1860, was a Scottish writer on angling, a shoemaker, and poet. He was born at Longnewton in the parish of Ancrum, Roxburghshire. As a young man he surpassed any poacher of the day in his knowledge of fur and feather, but, above all, he became an unrivalled angler. In 1811 he married Agnes Riddle, and settled at St. Boswells, some three miles from Longnewton, as the village shoemaker. About 1849 he was appointed the village postmaster, but the routine work proved beyond his patience, and in January 1856 he threw up the post and returned to cobbling. He died very poor, but was honest and industrious to the last and was buried in St. Boswells kirkyard beside his beloved wife who had died in 1856. A biography of John Younger was published at Kelso in 1881.



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Old Photograph Lower Fearnan Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage in Lower Fearnan village by Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland. The lands here were held by the Robertsons of Struan from the 14th century, awarded as a free barony for aiding King James II. It was a community heavily populated by Robertsons and MacGregors, often passing between them and the Campbells of Breadalbane.


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Old Photograph Valleyfield Scotland

Old photograph of cottage and house in Low Valleyfield, Fife, Scotland. Preston Island by Low Valleyfield, now a peninsula as the result of the landfill of ash from nearby Longannet power station, was the site of coal mining and major salt works from the 17th century onwards.


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Old Photograph Railway Station Auchnagatt Scotland

Old photograph of Auchnagatt, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The railway station closed in 1979, and now offers an access point to the Formartine and Buchan Way, the long distance path allows walkers to follow the route of the former railway line. There is evidence of prehistoric settlement in the area. The remains of two earth houses were found at Windy Hill, south east of the village.




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Old Photograph Auchterless Scotland

Old photograph of Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Auchterless railway station was a rural stop serving the parish of Auchterless and the nearby Towie Barclay estate. It was a key part of the branch line connecting Inveramsay to Macduff. Tolly Castle, once a Barclay stronghold is located two miles north east of this Scottish village. It was built in the 14th century, but the bulk of the remains are from the 16th century. This Scottish railway station now closed served the area known as Kirkton of Auchterless.



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Old Photographs Auldgirth Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Auldgirth, a village on the A76 road in the Civil Parish of Closeburn in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. At one time it had a manned railway station, situated one mile south of the village, just before the hamlet of Dalswinton.

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Old Photographs Swinton Scotland

Old photograph of cottage and houses in Swinton village located five miles South East of Duns in the Borders, Scotland. Swinton dates to the 11th century or earlier, and is associated with the Swinton family, who took their name from the settlement. In 1769, the village was re-designed and a market was created, now marked by the market cross. A parish church was built and still stands today. In the churchyard, the Swintons have their own burial enclosure. In 1843, the Free Church of Swinton was built, but in the 1900s the spire was removed and it became the local village hall.




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Old Photograph Port of Ness Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Port of Ness on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Each year men from Ness district would sail from the port to Sula Sgeir in the Atlantic Ocean in order to collect young gannets for food. The event, which was first recorded in the 16th century, is now licensed by the Scottish government.



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Old Photograph Garrabost Scotland

Old photograph of crofters outside their cottage in Garrabost on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. A hamlet in the Point, An Rubha, peninsula isthmus on the east coast. The village is now one of the largest in Point, comprising Upper and Lower Garrabost, and Claypark.

Angus Mòr MacAskill, born 1825, was a Scottish born Canadian giant. The 1981 Guinness Book of World Records posits Angus as the tallest non pathological giant in recorded history 7 feet 9 inches tall, as well as being the man with the largest chest measurements of any non obese man of 80 inches.



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