Old Photographs Railway Station Arbroath Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Arbroath, Scotland. There have been three stations called Arbroath, two of which closed in 1848. One, Arbroath Catherine Street, served the Arbroath and Forfar Railway; the other, Arbroath Lady Loan or Arbroath West, was on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. The current station was originally opened by the Dundee and Arbroath Railway on 1 February 1848 as a link station to connect the Arbroath and Forfar Railway with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. On 1 October 1880 the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway opened north towards Montrose. These days there are generally two or three trains per hour between westbound to Dundee and eastbound to Aberdeen, with hourly services onwards from Dundee towards Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street. Some East Coast Main Line services to London Kings Cross and CrossCountry routes towards England also stop at Arbroath. Jointly run by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway after the Grouping of 1923, the station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.



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Old Photograph Duncow Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Duncow in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village is located in Kirkmahoe parish which is a civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway. The parish contains the settlements Kirkton, where the parish church is located, Dalswinton and Duncow. It is bounded by the parishes of Dumfries to the south, Holywood and Dunscore to the west, and Kirkmichael and Tinwald to the East.



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Old Photograph Crosshouse Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, people and Post Office in Crosshouse located two miles West of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. A tributary of River Irvine, the Carmel Water, flows through the centre of the village. The River Irvine and its tributaries have many leisure uses. Fishing is a very popular pursuit and many angling clubs maintain the river and its banks, monitor fish stocks, report on pollution and carry out conservation measures. It was recorded as early as 1604, that salmon were plentiful in the River Irvine. The river contains, amongst others, brown trout, sea trout, salmon, eels, minnows, and sticklebacks.



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Old Photograph Eskdalemuir Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village is located around 10 miles North West of Langholm and 10 miles North East of Lockerbie.



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Old Photograph Forglen House Scotland

Old photograph of Forglen House near Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Sir Robert Abercromby, 5th Baronet commissioned the Aberdeen City Architect, John Smith to design the house in 1839. Robert John Abercromby was born 14 June 1850 in London, England, and became the seventh Abercromby baronet on the death of his father at the end of 1872. His inheritance included the family estates of Birkenbog and Forglen as well as land in Ireland. The main family seat was Forglen House situated to the north west of Turriff in Aberdeenshire. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire and was also a Justice of the Peace in both counties. Commissioner of Supply was another role he fulfilled. He was the son of George Samuel Abercromby, born 1824, died 1872, and Agnes Georgina, who was the daughter of John Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Kilmaine. The couple had three other sons, George Cosmo, Cavendish Douglas and Douglas Charles. They also had two daughters.



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Old Photograph Easter Elchies House Scotland

Old photograph of Easter Elchies house in Moray, Scotland. Lord Elchies, a distinguished Scottish judge, was born in this parish, and occasionally resided in the house of Easter Elchies. He was a distinguished judge and a Senator of the College of Justice and appears to have rebuilt the house in the Jacobean style. The house is now the Headquarters and museum of Macallan Whisky Distillery, and is the spiritual homeland of the company, bearing witness to its past, present and future.



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Old Photograph Auchindoun Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Auchindoun Castle near Dufftown in the heart of Speyside, Scotland. While there is evidence of prehistoric, probably Pictish earthworks in the grounds of the castle, the remains most visible today are of the castle constructed in the middle of 15th century by Thomas Cochran, later to become an Earl of Mar, born 1458, died, 1479. It was passed to the Clan Ogilvy in 1489 and from them to the Clan Gordon in 1535. An extension is known to have been added in the 16th century by the Gordons before the Ogilvys reclaimed it in 1594, it having been destroyed by the Clan MacKintosh in 1592 in retaliation for the 6th Earl George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly's killing of The Bonny Earl O'Moray, their ally. Following the Restoration of Charles II, the castle was again awarded to the Marquis of Huntly.



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Tour Scotland Video Train Ride From Perth To Visit Gleneagles Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a train ride West from Perth to visit Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland. Gleneagles is on the main London to Inverness railway line, National Express East Coast Railway services stop at Gleneagles Railway Station. New lifts, waiting rooms, toilets, wi-fi access and an improved car park have been installed at the station.

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Old Photograph Pier Fearnan Scotland

Old photograph of a ship approaching the pier in Fearnan village by Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland. The land around the village has at various times in history belonged to both the Clan Robertsons of Struan and the Clan Campbells.



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Old Photograph Loch Nan Uamh Viaduct Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train on Loch Nan Uamh Viaduct located three miles West of Lochailort between Fort William, and Mallaig in Scotland. This monument to concrete engineering earned for its contractor Robert McAlpine the nickname Concrete Bob. The viaduct was built to carry the West Highland railway across the valley of the Beasdale Burn at the head of Loch nan Uamh.



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Old Photograph Lochailort Scotland

Old photograph of Lochailort located between Fort William, and Mallaig in Scotland. A sea loch in Morar, Lochaber in the Highlands, it is a shallow V shaped loch, with the small Ardnish Peninsula on the north side, and the large South West facing Moidart Peninsula to the south. It is is bounded in the North East by the village of the same name, Lochailort and in the west, opening out into the Sound of Arisaig. To the north of the loch lies Loch Nan Uamh.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Castle Douglas Scotland

Old photograph of people at the railway station at Castle Douglas near Threave Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway was incorporated on 21 July 1856; the act was obtained by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. It opened on 7 November 1859 and was substantially closed around 14 June 1965. In 1861 the Portpatrick Railway completed a connection from Castle Douglas to Portpatrick and Stranraer.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Whistlefield Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Whistlefield near Dunoon, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Glasgow, Helensburgh, Crianlarich, Fort William route on the West Highland line, of the former North British Railway. was opened by the West Highland Railway on 1 May 1896. It was renamed Whistlefield Halt on 13 June 1960 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 15 June 1964.





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Old Photograph Cottages Arnisdale Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Arnisdale on the north shore of Loch Hourn, around 10 miles down a single track road from Glenelg near the Isle of Skye, Scotland. This Scottish village is most famous as the closest settlement to Camusfeàrna, the house in which Gavin Maxwell wrote the auto-biographical story of his secluded life with his pet otters, Ring of Bright Water. It was also the departure point during the summer months for the ferry to the Barrisdale on Knoydart, across Loch Hourn, until the ferry stopped operating in 2011. Walkers often come to Arnisdale to climb Beinn Sgritheall.


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Old Photograph Ferry Corrie Island Of Arran Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and the ferry at Corrie located six miles North of Brodick, Island Of Arran, Scotland. This Scottish village used to be a regular stop for steamers circumnavigating the island, passengers embarking by way of a rowing boat from the ferry rock. The ferry rock is located midway between the village's two quays. The southernmost quay is known as the sandstone quay. This harbour and quay used to be the location where sandstone blocks from the nearby quarry were shipped to the mainland. The sheep bollards on the quay walls were moved to Corrie after they were used in the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. The northernmost quay is Corrie port and was also used for shipping products to other locations on the island, the mainland and other islands. Small coastal cargo vessels of a type known as the Clyde puffer were a common sight in the port and the sandstone quay during their heyday.




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Tour Scotland Video Armed Forces Day Parade Stirling

Tour Scotland video of the Armed Forces Day Parade on ancestry visit to to Stirling, Scotland. The parade started at Stirling Castle and marched through the town to the Albert Halls, before making their way to the Royal Parklands. Representatives of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Cadets and more than 1,000 Veterans took part led by various Pipe Bands and Brass Bands.

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Tour Scotland Video Motorbikes Parade Armed Forces Day Stirling

Tour Scotland video of a parade of motorbikes on Armed Forces Day on ancestry visit to to Stirling, Scotland. Armed Forces Day, formerly Veterans' Day, in the United Kingdom is an annual event celebrated in late June to commemorate the service of men and women in the British Armed Forces. Veterans' Day was first observed in 2006. Although an official event, it is not a public holiday in the UK. The name was changed to Armed Forces Day in 2009. Armed Forces Day has so far been observed on the last Saturday of June.

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Tour Scotland Video Pipe Band Armed Forces Day Stirling

Tour Scotland travel video of Queen Victoria School Pipe band on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Stirling, Scotland. Queen Victoria School is a boarding school in Dunblane, Scotland, funded by the MOD to provide education and boarding for children of UK Armed Forces.

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Tour Scotland Video Drummers Armed Forces Day Stirling

Tour Scotland travel video of drummers from Queen Victoria School Pipe band on on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Stirling, Scotland. Queen Victoria School is a boarding school in Dunblane, Scotland, funded by the MOD to provide education and boarding for children of UK Armed Forces.

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Old Photograph War Memorial Contin Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and the war memorial in Contin near Garve located West of Inverness, Scotland. This memorial is a circular castellated tower set on two circular steps, constructed of rustic blocks of local stone.



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Old Photograph Parish Church Fetlar Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of the parish church on Fetlar Island one of the Northern Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The present church was erected in 1790 and recast 1860; medieval masonry remains under the foundations. Traditional hall church of rectangular plan and harled walls. Coloured glass windows, restored 2009. Walled burial grounds include Cheyne and Nicholson families. The oldest memorial is set in the wall of the vestry: Andrew Bruce, died 1717.



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Old Photograph Bedlay Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Bedlay Castle in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This castle is located between Chryston and Moodiesburn. The castle is just off the A80 road, around 8 miles to the north east of Glasgow. In 1580, James Boyd of Trochrig, then the titular Protestant Archbishop of Glasgow, granted the lands to his kinsman, Robert Boyd, 4th Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock. He built the original Bedlay Castle soon after, on the end of a volcanic crag above the Bothlyn Burn. The Boyds held the castle until 1642, when James, 9th Lord Boyd sold it to the advocate James Roberton, grandson of John Roberton, 9th Laird of Earnock, later Lord Bedlay. The Robertons extended the castle, and held the property until 1786. Since then the castle has been owned by a number of people, including the Campbells of Petershill.



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Old Photograph Ardrossan Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the castle in Ardrossan located in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The original castle, owned by Clan Barclay, was partly destroyed during the Wars of Scottish Independence. This event, in which the English garrison were slaughtered, became known as Wallace's Larder, a name which is still applied to the remaining vaults. Rebuilt by Clan Montgomery in the 15th century, Ardrossan later fell into disuse and was partially demolished by the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century who used the stones to help construct the Ayr Citadel. The ruins of this castle still stand, but are in hazardous condition. The castle is said to be haunted by the ghost of William Wallace, who is said to wander the ruins on stormy nights.



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Old Photographs Montrose Aerodrome Scotland

Old photograph of the aerodrome in Montrose, Scotland. RAF Montrose was a Royal Air Force station in Forfarshire, now called Angus. On 26 February 1913, it became the first operational military aerodrome to be established in the United Kingdom.

Old photograph of the aerodrome in Montrose, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Newtonmore Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Newtonmore, Scotland. The station was opened by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway on 9 September 1863. The original station buildings were constructed of wood and destroyed in a fire in April 1893. A replacement station building in stone was erected in 1893. A serious accident occurred on 2 August 1894 when the morning passenger train from Perth to Inverness collided with a goods train. One passenger was killed and several were badly injured. On 13 September 1900, James Ormiston, a brakesman was killed in a shunting accident at the station.



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Old Photograph Sparrow Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Sparrow Castle at the South end of Cockburnspath in Scotland. The old manor house known locally as Sparrow Castle consists in reality of two old houses, one partially abutting on the end of the other and at right angles to it. The windows of the southernmost house are surrounded with a bead-and-hollow moulding, and three large corbels project on the W face of the wall-head. The N house is entered at first floor level by an outside stair. It has a vaulted basement. This building replaced Cockburnspath Castle. The Arnots were in possession in around 1625, when it passed to the Nicolsons, and they built a burial aisle at the nearby parish church. The lands with the tower, fortalice, etc are mentioned in a ratification of 1695 in favour of Sir John Hall of Dunglass


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Old Photograph Dunnichen House Scotland

Old photograph of Dunnichen house located between Letham and Forfar in Angus, Scotland. This was the home of George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo, born 1732, died 1818, who was a Scottish advocate, landowner, agricultural improver and politician. Dempster served as Member of Parliament for the Perth Burghs in Perthshire, founded the Dundee Banking Company in 1763, was a Director of the East India Company from 1769, and served as Provost of St Andrews, Fife in 1780 and was a Director of the Highland Society in 1789. He spent the later years of his life improving Scottish fishing and agriculture and improving the living conditions of his tenants. He was a lifelong friend of the philosopher Adam Ferguson and the minister Alexander Carlyle. was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1788, upon the proposal of Dr Anderson, Henry Duncan and John Playfair. He died at Dunnichen, Angus, on 13 February 1818, and was interred at Restenneth Priory, Forfar.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Langholm Scotland

Old photograph of a steam engine in the railway station in Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. A branch of the Carlisle, England, to Hawick railway line to Langholm was completed in 1864, but closed 100 years later. The last regular passenger train was on 13 June 1964, although a special ran in March 1967, complete with restaurant car; the freight service continued until September 1967.



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Old Photograph Steam Engines Queen Street Railway Station Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of steam trains at Queen Street railway station in Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish railway station was built by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and opened on 18 February 1842. The adjacent Buchanan Street station of the rival Caledonian Railway closed on 7 November 1966 as a result of the Beeching axe and its services to Stirling, Perth, Perthshire, Inverness, Dundee and Aberdeen transferred to Queen Street.



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Old Photograph Fintray House Scotland

Old photograph of Fintray House in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A Scottish mansion house in the Tudor style built in the middle of the 19th century. The estate was acquired in 1610, by the Forbses of Craigievar. It formerly belonged to Lindores family, until the Reformation, at which time it was called Lamington. The Forbes Baronetcy, of Pitsligo and Monymusk in the County of Aberdeen, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 30 March 1626 for William Forbes, with remainder to heirs male whatsoever. He was a descendant of Duncan Forbes, second son of James Forbes, 2nd Lord Forbes. The eighth Baronet assumed the additional surname and arms of Hepburn. He was the heir general of the last Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, his ancestor, the fourth Baronet, having married Mary, daughter of Alexander Forbes, 3rd Lord Forbes of Pitsligo. His only child, Harriet Williamina, married Charles Henry Rolle Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton. On the Baronet’s death in 1828 the Forbes of Pitsligo estates passed to his daughter and son in law. The seventh Baronet married Williamina Wishart, only child and heiress of Sir John Belshes Wishart 4th Baronet. The tenth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Stuart.



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Old Photograph Glenbervie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Glenbervie Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The oldest part of the present Glenbervie castle now a mansion house is an oblong block with two round towers projecting to the East, of 15th or 16th century date. Edward 1 spent a night in Glenbervie Castle in 1296, when it was held by the Melville family. It passed to Sir Alexander Auchinleck in 1468. King Edward I, born 17 June 1239, died 7 July 1307, also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots spent a night in Glenbervie Castle in 1296, when it was held by the Melville family. It passed to Sir Alexander Auchinleck in 1468.



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Old Photograph Glenbarr Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, horses and carriages and people in Glenbarr located on the West Coast of the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll, Scotland. The village has a rich history of local trades, including blacksmiths, innkeepers, and weavers, with a history of people living and working in the area for generations. Nearby is Glenbarr Abbey, an 18th century residence, built by Col. Matthew Macalister, 1st Laird of Glenbarr. Today it serves as a visitor centre for the history of Clan MacAlister.




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Old Photograph Canisbay Church Scotland

Old photograph of Canisbay Church in Caithness, Scotland. This Scottish church is most northerly place of worship on the Scottish mainland, the site was occupied by the Chapel of St Drostan, who headed a mission to Pictland in the 6th century. The present cruciform church is largely 17th century, but the nave incorporates walling from the medieval church.



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Old Photograph United Free Church Crail Scotland

Old photograph of the United Free Church in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish building was built in 1909 as a United Free Church by James Davidson Cairns. It was erected on the site of Crail North United Free Church, following the union of Crail West, now Holy Trinity Catholic Church and Crail North in 1907.



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Old Photograph Golf Course Gairloch Scotland

Old photograph of the golf course in Gairloch, Scotland. There has been a golf club beside Gairloch Sands since 1898. Before that time, Parish records show that golf was regularly played on the links amongst the sand dunes.



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Old Photograph Craigengillan House Scotland

Old photograph of Craigengillan House in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Craigengillan was first established as an estate in 1580, when it encompassed over 30,000 acres, stretching as far as Carsphairn. The founding family, the McAdams, and their descendants, remained the proprietors until 1999.



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Old Photograph Conscience Bridge Cairneyhill Scotland

Old photograph of Conscience Bridge in Cairneyhill, near Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. There is a small bridge over the Torry Burn at the west end of the village known as the "Conscience Bridge". This name arises from local legend, in which a murderer was caught and confessed to his crime on the bridge and hanged himself. The line of the road has been straightened and widened over the years, with only the original north parapet remaining, but the name of the bridge is carved into a plaque which can be seen by leaning over the wall. This Scottish village began in the 18th century as a settlement for local weavers and was served by the parish church that was built in 1752 and is still used today. This was a hotbed of dissenters and the village was a central point for the religious disputes in Scotland in the early 19th Century.



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Old Photographs Falkirk Scotland

Old photograph of Falkirk, Scotland. In the 18th century the area served as the cradle of Scotland's Industrial Revolution, becoming the earliest major centre of the iron casting industry. James Watt cast some of the beams for his early steam engine designs at the Carron Iron Works in 1765. The area was at the forefront of canal construction when the Forth and Clyde Canal opened in 1790. The Union Canal built in 1822 provided a link to Edinburgh and early railway development followed in the 1830s and 1840s. The Antonine Wall, which stretches across the centre of Scotland, passed through the town and remnants of it can be seen at Callendar Park. Similar to Hadrian's Wall but built of turf rather than stone so less of it has survived, it marked the northern frontier of the Roman Empire between the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde during the AD 140s. Much of the best evidence of Roman occupation in Scotland has been found in Falkirk, including a large hoard of Roman coins and a cloth of tartan, thought to be the oldest ever recorded.



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Old Photograph Delgatie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Delgatie Castle near Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A castle has stood on this site since the year 1030 AD, although the earliest parts of the castle standing today were built between 1570 and 1579. Additional wings and a chapel were added in 1743. The castle was stripped from the disgraced Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan after the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and given to Clan Hay, later to become the Earls of Erroll. Mary, Queen of Scots, was a guest at the castle in 1562 after the Battle of Corrichie. Like many castles, Delgatie is rumoured to be haunted. A number of reports of a ghostly red-haired figure, supposedly one Alexander Hay, were made by soldiers posted there during the Second World War.




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Old Photograph Golf Course Glenfarg Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the golf course in Glenfarg, Perthshire, Scotland. The nine hole course founded in 1904 was situated to the west of Glenfarg and was 800 feet above sea level. It was laid out by W Auchterlonie of St Andrews, Fife. The course closed in the late 1930s.



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Old Photograph Clatteringshaws Dam Scotland

Old photograph of Clatteringshaws Dam in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Clatteringshaws Loch reservoir was created between 1929 and 1935 over the Black Water of Dee to feed Glenlee Power Station via a three mile long tunnel. Clatteringshaws Dam is the largest on the Galloway Hydro Electric Scheme.



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Old Photograph St David's Church Dalkeith Scotland

Old photograph of St David's Church in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. This is a Roman Catholic Parish church founded in 1854 by Lady Cecil, the wife of John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian and daughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot. After she converted to Catholicism, Lady Cecil of Lothian decided to build a church for the local Catholic population. Joseph Hansom was the church architect and building started in 1853. On 21 May 1854, the church opened and a Father Mackay was the first parish priest. In 1858, he was replaced by a Father J. S. McCorry. In 1860, Lady Cecil invited the Society of Jesus to serve the parish. In 1944, the Jesuits left the parish and handed over administration of the church to the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh who continue to serve the congregation.



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Old Photograph Keppoch House Scotland

Old photograph of Keppoch House in the Highlands of Scotland. Keppoch House was built between 1760 and 1765 by Ranald Macdonell, 17th Chief of Keppoch, to replace the earlier house destroyed after the 1745 Rebellion. The Macdonalds, or Macdonells of Keppoch were not cadets of Glengarry but an independent clan, caught up like most of their neighbours in an endless round of land disputes and inter clan feuds, of which the Keppoch Murders of 1663 were a particularly gruesome example. The 18th century found them constantly engaged in land feuds with the Mackintoshes, who eventually managed to hold this territory from after 1745 until 1945, prompting most of the Keppoch clan to emigrate.



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Old Photograph Ladykirk House Scotland

Old photograph of Ladykirk House in Berwickshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was built in 1797, to a design by the architect William Elliot, and it resembled Dundas House, which still stands in St Andrews Square, Edinburgh. It consisted of a central main block with adjoining symmetrical wings, and was built in the Classical style, with a central pediment and a parapet balustrade. Additions and alterations were undertaken in 1845 by William Burn. Ladykirk estate was owned by the Robertson family in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The initials of one of the Robertsons, 'W R', were carved into the datestone that was once incorporated into the fabric of Ladykirk House.



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Old Photograph Mansion House Rouken Glen Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and carriage and people outside the mansion house in Rouken Glen park in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, to the South Weest of Glasgow, Scotland. The lands of Rouken Glen Park originally belonged to the Scottish Crown, and then to the Earl of Eglinton, presented to Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton on the marriage of his son in the year 1530 by king James V. Amongst the park's owners have been Walter Crum of Thornliebank and Archibald Cameron Corbett, M.P. for Tradeston, Glasgow, later Lord Rowallan, who gifted the estate and mansion house to the citizens of Glasgow. The park features in an episode of Scottish comedy series Rab C. Nesbitt, when Rab gets a job sweeping leaves by the pond. A scene from the film Trainspotting was also filmed in Rouken Glen, and the pondside cafeteria, Boaters, was featured in an episode of the BBC Scotland drama series Sea of Souls.



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Old Photograph Balmirmer House Scotland

Old photograph of Balmirmer house located two miles North of Carnoustie and four miles West of Arbroath, Scotland. This is the location of West Balmirmer Farm, the birthplace, in 1891, of Margaret Fairlie, the first woman to hold a university chair in Scotland. Margaret was the daughter of Mr and Mrs James Fairlie and grew up at West Balmirmer Farm, Angus. From 1910 to 1915 she studied at University College, Dundee at the University of St Andrews Conjoint Medical School in Fife. After graduating she held various medical posts in Dundee, Perth, Perthshire, Edinburgh and Manchester, England, before returning to Dundee in 1919 where she ran a consultant practice for gynaecology. In 1920 she began a teaching career at Dundee's Medical School, which lasted for almost four decades. In the mid 1920s she joined the staff of Dundee Royal Infirmary, where she worked for the rest of her career.



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Old Photograph Maryhill Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland. A part of the Antonine Wall runs through Maryhill, in the Maryhill Park area, where there is the site of a Roman fort adjoining the wall in nearby Bearsden. Maryhill had the first Temperance Society in the United Kingdom after lawlessness filled the streets in the Victorian era. Maryhill also boasts one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed by the Inverness architect James Robert Rhind. Maryhill Barracks was opened in 1872 and once dominated the area that is now the Wyndford housing estate. It was home to the Scots Greys and the Highland Light Infantry, and famously held Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Rudolf Hess during World War II. Maryhill was known as the Venice of the North for its canals and also for being the centre of the glass industry, with its Caledonia Works and Glasgow Works.



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Old Photograph Faithlie Basin Fraserburgh Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats at Faithlie Basin in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Construction of the Faithlie Basin in 1909 took place at a time when the herring curing was at a peak.



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Old Photograph Howmore Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter outside the thatched Post Office cottage in Howmore on South Uist, Scotland. South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clan Ranald who made a good living from kelp harvesting owing to the demand for kelp around the turn of the 19th century. At that time population of the island was around 7300. After the Napoleonic Wars however, competition from imported Barilla resulted in a collapse in the price for kelp and the chief of Clan Ranald found himself facing bankruptcy. South Uist was sold to Lt. Colonel John Gordon of Cluny in 1837 and the fortunes of the island's tenants went downhill from that point. He initiated Highland Clearances to make way for sheep farming, supplanting the crofters with farmers from the Borders, who brought flocks of Blackface sheep. As a result, there was large scale emigration from the island.



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Old Photograph Farr Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Farr in Strathnairn, South of Inverness, Scotland. Much of this area is spread along the B851 single track road. Its boundaries lie just north of Inverernie and Dalveallan, to the south of Socaich, in the west to the Biorraid, and in the east where the Monadhliath Mountains begin.



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