Old Photographs Railway Station Gretna Green Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Gretna Green in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station was opened by the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway on 23 August 1848 as Gretna. The Glasgow and South Western Railway renamed the station as Gretna Green in April 1852. On 6 December 1965 the station was closed. The Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway station was one of three serving Gretna, the others being: Gretna built by the Caledonian Railway in 1847, closing in 1951. Gretna built by Border Union Railway in 1861, closing in 1915. The station re-opened in September 1993 by British Rail with just one platform, on the north side of the line to the west of the previous station, coinciding with the west end of the points marking the end of the single track section from Annan.



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Old Photograph Glenwhilly Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train locomotive in the railway station in Glenwhilly in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This intermediate Scottish station on the Glasgow, Ayr, Girvan, Stranraer main line of the former Glasgow and South Western Railway was opened, by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway on 5 October 1877. It closed on 7 February 1882, reopened on 16 February 1882, closed again on 12 April 1886, reopened again on 14 June 1886, and finally closed on 6 September 1965. The line itself remains open to regular passenger traffic.



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Old Photograph Friars Vennel Dumfries Scotland

Old photograph of Friars Vennel in Dumfries, Scotland. Friars Vennel was established in the 9th century by Scots, Irish colonists crossing from Galloway into Nithsdale, accessing by a ford over the Nith at the bottom of the Vennel. It is the most ancient part of the town and with a small part of the High Street formed the Dumfries of the eleventh century. In the late thirteenth century Devorgilla, wife of John Baliol, founded Greyfriars Monastery, at the top of the Vennel, in memory of her husband who died in 1269. In 1306 Robert The Bruce met John Comyn, his rival for the crown of Scotland, at Greyfriars monastery in Dumfries. A row erupted and Comyn was murdered. Bruce then became an outlaw.



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Old Photograph Glenquoich Lodge Scotland

Old photograph of Glenquoich Lodge by Loch Quoich in Lochaber in the Highlands of Scotland. Before the widespread clearances of the 1780s, the shores of Loch Quoich were fringed with settlements and good grazing land. Edwin Landseer was among many fashionable sportsmen who came here in the 19th century, and his best known paintings were inspired by the red deer of Glen Quoich. The flooding of Loch Quoich destroyed Glenquoich Lodge, built for Edward Ellice, Member of Parliament, in 1838; extended by Alexander Ross around 1900 for Lord Burton of Dochfour, a tenant from 1873 to 1905, who poured money into the place. Situated near the mouth of Allt Coire Peitireach, it started life fairly spartan, `furnished in the simplest manner, with cane bottomed chairs and iron bedsteads, but became one of the most fashionable shooting lodges of its day.



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Old Photograph St Blanes Chapel Scotland

Old photograph of St Blane's Chapel on the southern tip of the Isle of Bute, Scotland. St Blane's Church and Monastery was built at an unknown date prior to 574. There is clear evidence of Christian burial there in the 6th and 7th centuries, also that the monastery became a cultural centre around that time. Its list of abbots extends to 790, when the Viking raids began. St Blane's Church, in use as the parish church of Kingarth until the early 18th century is a fine 12th century Romanesque building consisting of a nave and chancel.



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Old Photograph Church Walston Scotland

Old photograph of the parish church in Walston in East Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish church was built on the shoulder of a hill in the 17th century, and rebuilt in 1789. It has rubble and sandstone ashlar walls and a slate roof. The church is in good condition although it is no longer in ecclesiastical use.



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Old Photograph Mount Florida Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Mount Florida, Glasgow, Scotland. Mount Florida is served by the Mount Florida railway station which lies upon the Cathcart Circle railway line. The area is home to Langside College. Scotland's National Stadium, Hampden Park, is located off Cathcart Road in the heart of Mount Florida.





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Tour Scotland Video Trams Tramway Princes Street Edinburgh Lothian

Tour Scotland travel video of Trams on the Tramway on Princes Street on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and small group trip Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh Corporation first ran Tramways ran from 1871 until 16 November 1956. Proposals for a new tram network were made in 1990 and the new tram line now begins its run from York Place, in the city centre. It turns into North St Andrew Street, crosses St Andrew Square. From the square, it heads South East into Princes Street, and west along the street toward Haymarket, via Shandwick Place, Atholl Place, and West Maitland Street. At Haymarket, the route heads onto a segregated track parallel to the Glasgow to Edinburgh mainline. It follows the railway line west to Edinburgh Park railway station. There, it leaves the railway line on a segregated track and heads north to Gogar Roundabout from where it heads North West via Ingliston Park and Ride to Edinburgh Airport, where it terminates.

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Tour Scotland Video John Barleycorn Song The Bruce Festival Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Gargoyles of Gargunnock singing John Barleycorn song on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline is the ancient capital of Scotland, birthplace of Kings and Queens and the final resting place of King Robert The Bruce. The character of John Barleycorn in the song is a personification of the important cereal crop barley and of the alcoholic beverages made from it, beer and whisky.

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Old Photograph Port Stoth Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats on the beach in Port Stoth, known locally as Stoth and pronounced Stow, which is a sheltered inlet just south east of the Butt of Lewis Lighthouse on Isle of Lewis, Scotland. This is the most northerly landing in the Outer Hebrides. A track leads down to a slipway which runs across the sandy beach. Port Stoth is where all the materials for building the Butt of Lewis lighthouse were landed between 1851 and 1862. A relatively sheltered spot the beach continued to be used to bring supplies to the lighthouse until 1960.



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Old Photograph Skerray Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Skerray, Sutherland, Scotland. Skerray is the main village in Mackay Country, historically attributed to Clan Mackay. There are 11 townships in the community, Torrisdale, Achtoty, Lotts, Clashaidy, Clashlevan, Achnabat, Clashbuie, Modsary, Lamigo, Stathanbeg, Strathan, and Slettel, now deserted. To the south are the lakes of Lochan Modsane, Loch na Coit, Lochan nam Burag, Lochan an Tigh-choimhid and Loch Skerray, with Lochan Ruadh to the southwest. Just off the coast of Skerray Bay is Neave Island and Eilean nan Ron to the north west.



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Tour Scotland Video Medieval Medicine The Bruce Festival Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of Medieval medicine at The Bruce Festival on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline is the ancient capital of Scotland, birthplace of Kings and Queens and the final resting place of King Robert The Bruce.

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Tour Scotland Video Medieval Music The Bruce Festival Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of Medieval Music at The Bruce Festival on ancestry history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife. Dunfermline is the ancient capital of Scotland, birthplace of Kings and Queens and the final resting place of King Robert The Bruce.
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Tour Scotland Video Jousting Knights The Bruce Festival Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of Jousting Knights at The Bruce Festival on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline is the ancient capital of Scotland, birthplace of Kings and Queens and the final resting place of King Robert The Bruce.

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Old Photograph Strathallan Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Strathallan Castle by Auchterarder in Perthshire, Scotland. An early Scottish 19th Century Baronial Castle within 1000 acres of picturesque policies and woodland. The estate has been the home of the Roberts family for the last 100 years. Strathallan Castle will provide the backdrop for the site of the T IN THE PARK festival from the Summer of 2015. The castle, was a World War I hospital and a girls’ school in World War II, is set in about 1000 acres of ­woodland.



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Tour Scotland Video Keep The Home Fires Burning Song Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Choir singing Keep the Home Fires Burning, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire. The song was published first as Till the Boys Come Home on 8 October 1914 by Ascherberg, Hopwood, and Crew Ltd. in London. A new edition was printed in 1915 with the name Keep the Home Fires Burning. The song became very popular in the United Kingdom during World War I.

They were summoned from the hillside,
They were called in from the glen,
And the country found them ready
At the stirring call for men.
Let no tears add to their hardships
As the soldiers pass along,
And although your heart is breaking,
Make it sing this cheery song:
Keep the Home Fires Burning,
While your hearts are yearning.
Though your lads are far away
They dream of home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark clouds shining,
Turn the dark cloud inside out
Till the boys come home.
Overseas there came a pleading,
"Help a nation in distress."
And we gave our glorious laddies -
Honour bade us do no less,
For no gallant son of Freedom
To a tyrant's yoke should bend,
And a noble heart must answer
To the sacred call of "Friend."
Keep the Home Fires Burning,
While your hearts are yearning.
Though your lads are far away
They dream of home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark clouds shining,
Turn the dark cloud inside out
'Til the boys come home

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Tour Scotland Video Mariano Band Playing Music City Centre Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Mariano Band playing music in the city centre on visit and trip to the city centre of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Street Band is from Romania. Romania is a republic in South East Europe which borders the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. With 19.94 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city, Bucharest, is the sixth largest city in the EU.

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Tour Scotland Video Bodhran Playing Taxi Driver Railway Station Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a taxi driver playing the bodhrán while waiting for passengers at the railway station on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The bodhrán is the heartbeat of Irish music. This ancient framedrum is traditionally made with a wooden body and a goat-skin head, and is played with a double-headed stick called a cipín, tipper, or beater.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Music The Dark Island Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a busker playing the the Scottish tune, The Dark Island, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the city centre of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides is also known in Gaelic poetry as An t-Eilean Dorcha " the dark island ". The tune The Dark Island was written by accordionist Iain MacLachlan from Benbecula.

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Tour Scotland Video Pitcur Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Pitcur Castle on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip pnear Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. The Castle of Pitcur is a high square tower, now in ruins. It was probably built in the early 16th century. The lands of Pitcur are on record in 1315; in 1432 they passed by marriage from the family of Chisholm to Halyburton. In 1680 the family moved to nearby Hallyburton House and the estate was sold to Graham Menzies, an Edinburgh whisky distiller.

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Old Photograph Dead Bell Ringer Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a Dead Bell ringer in Glasgow, Scotland. A Dead bell or deid bell was a form of hand bell used in Scotland and northern England, in conjunction with deaths and funerals up until the 19th century. Belief in the supernatural was common in the Middle Ages and special protective powers were sometimes attributed to certain objects, including bells. The Church itself condoned the use of bells to frighten away evil spirits and this ensured the practice's survival and development. Bells were often baptised, and once baptised were believed by many to possess the power to ward off evil spells and spirits. The use of the dead bell was typical of this belief, rung for the recently deceased to keep evil spirits away from the body.



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Old Photograph Springhill Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Springhill, Glasgow, Scotland. Springhill is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde on the eastern edge of the city. It can be accessed from the M8 motorway, using junctions 9 or 10.



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Old Photograph Duffus Moray Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office and church in Duffus, Moray, Scotland. Duffus was the base of the regionally powerful de Moravia family during the High Middle Ages. The family was probably of Flemish origin. Freskin de Moravia came north from his lands in Lothian as part of an army of King David I to put down another rebellion by the men of Moray. Freskin was one of several Flemings who had lands in Moray bestowed upon him; this seems to have been an attempt by the kings of Scotland to replace the native Gaelic nobility, who had resisted their rule and prevented them forming a cohesive kingdom, most notably in the 1130 uprising led by Angus, Earl of Moray. It is also quite possible that the house of Douglas descend from Freskin's family. Bricius de Douglas, son of William, Lord of Douglas, became Bishop of Moray in 1203. A man named Freskin of Kerdal is found amongst the benefactors of Spynie Cathedral.



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Tour Scotland Video Brass Band Farmers Market Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a brass band playing at the Farmers Market in the city centre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Movie star Ewan McGregor says he would love to sit in with Perthshire Brass one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Fire And Rescue Service South Methven Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Fire And Rescue Service in South Methven Street on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Firefighters responding to falling masonry from the roof a building on this street. Many of these buildings are more than 200 years old and falling masonry can be a hazard to pedestrians walking on the pavement below.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Oban Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Oban, Scotland. Oban station opened on 1 July 1880. It is the terminus of one branch of the highly scenic West Highland Line 100 miles north of Glasgow Queen Street. It was originally the terminus of the Callander and Oban Railway.



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Tour Scotland Video Squirrels Eating Peanuts In Pittencrieff Glen Fife

Tour Scotland video of squirrels eating peanuts in Pittencrieff Glen on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Haymarket Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Haymarket in Edinburgh, Scotland. The station opened in 1842 as the original terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, before the line was extended in 1846 through the Haymarket tunnels and Princes Street Gardens to what is now Waverley station. It is now a major commuter and long distance destination, located near the city centre, in the West End. Trains from the station serve much of Scotland, including Fife and Glasgow, as well as suburban lines to the east, and the East Coast Main Line through to London. It is now the fifth busiest railway station in Scotland.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Ayr Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Ayr, Scotland. The station was opened on 12 January 1886 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. This was the third station to be named Ayr in the town: the original station, located on the former Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway, opened in 1839. When the Ayr and Dalmellington Railway was opened in 1856, a station called Ayr Townhead was opened on the south side of the town. When the original Ayr station was closed on 1 July 1857, Townhead station was renamed Ayr, however this second station closed the same day the current station opened. The current station was built just 300 yards south of the previous station. The Glasgow and South Western Railway became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Blair Atholl Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train locomotive in the railway station in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Perth to Inverness main line of the former Highland Railway was opened as Blair Athole station by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway on 9 September 1863. It was renamed Blair Atholl station on 7 September 1893, and remains in regular use by passenger trains.



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Old Photographs Carmunnock Scotland

Old photograph of Carmunnock within the boundary of Glasgow, Scotland. This ancient settlement which is associated with the early Christian missionary Saint Cadoc, has a medieval street plan set within the lands of an estate held by variously the Morays of Bothwell, the Earls of Douglas and eventually to the Lords, Marquesses and Dukes of Hamilton until 1700 when it passed to the Stuarts of Castlemilk.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Banff Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station at Banff, Scotland. The line from Tillynaught opened in 1859 and a temporary terminus opened on 30 July 1859. A permanent station opened the following year. As originally built there was a single platform and a goods line through to the quayside at Banff harbour but this was cutback prior to 1900 when a second platform line was constructed. The Great North of Scotland Railway took over the line in 1867 and operated it until grouping in 1923. Passing into British Railways ownership in 1948, the line was, like the rest of the lines along the Moray coast, considered for closure as part of the Beeching report and closure notices were issued in 1963. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1964 and the entire line, including Banff station finally closed in 1968.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Oyne Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Aberdeen to Inverness main line of the former Highland and Great North of Scotland Railways, subsequently grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway was opened by the latter company on 20 September 1854. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968; the line itself remains in use. The village has limited local resources. It has a daily bus service to Inverurie 8 miles away and to Huntly. The area is popular with commuters to Inverurie, Huntly and Aberdeen, a journey of around 30 minutes. The area has a number of large private houses such as Westhall House, which was a small hotel until the 1990s. The Horn family were lairds of Westhall.

The Huntly surname of English and Scots origin, from places so called in Gloucestershire, England, and Berwick, and Aberdeen in Scotland. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century " hunta ", a hunter, and " leah ", a wood or clearing in a wood.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Pinwherry Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Pinwherry, Ayrshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Glasgow, Ayr, Girvan, Stranraer main line of the former Glasgow and South Western Railway was opened by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway on 5 October 1877. It closed on 7 February 1882, reopened on 16 February 1882, closed again on 12 April 1886, reopened again on 14 June 1886, and finally closed on 6 September 1965. The line itself remains open to regular passenger traffic.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Cardrona Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Cardrona near Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. This intermediate station on the Peebles to Galshiels branch of the former North British Railway was opened by the Innerleithen and Galashiels Railway on 10 October 1864. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 5 February 1962.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Gordon Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland. Gordon was once on a branch line of the Berwickshire Railway.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Luncarty Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Luncarty located Norh of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Perth, Kinnaber Junction main Strathmore line of the former Caledonian Railway was opened by the Scottish Central, Scottish Midland Junction, railway. on 2 August 1848 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 18 June 1951. The portion of the line between Perth and Stanley Junction remains in use by Perth to Inverness trains.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Laurencekirk Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The station was opened on 1 November 1849 by the Aberdeen Railway, which ran from Aberdeen in the north to Guthrie, just outside Arbroath, to the south. The line joined the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway north of Montrose at Kinnaber Junction and Arbroath and Forfar Railway at the triangular junctions at Friockheim and Guthrie. The station was closed in September 1967.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Shawhill Annan Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in Shawhill railway station in Annan, near Dumfries, Scotland. Annan Shawhill station was on the long disuded Solway Junction Railway which ran from Kirtlebridge on the current West Coast Main Line through the east side of Annan, across the Solway Firth and on to Maryport in Cumbria in North West England.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Strathpeffer Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Strathpeffer, Scotland. The first station to serve Strathpeffer was opened on 19 August 1870 by the Highland Railway and was located two miles to the north of the town on the Dingwall and Skye Railways line to Kyle of Lochalsh. It was renamed Achterneed railway station on 3 June 1885 and was closed on 7 December 1965.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Bonar Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Bonar Bridge, Sutherland, Highlands, Scotland. Ardgay railway station Opened on 1 October 1874 as Bonar Bridge by the Inverness and Junction Railway. The station joined the Highland Railway, later becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923; it then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was renamed Ardgay on 2 May 1977.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Lybster Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train locomotive in the railway station in Lybster, Caithness, Scotland. The station was opened as part of the Wick and Lybster Railway on 1 July 1903. As with the other stations on the line, the station was closed on 3 April 1944. The station building now serves as the clubhouse for the Lybster golf course.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Pitlochry Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The station opened in 1863 when the Dunkeld to Pitlochry section of the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway was completed. The line was fully connected to Aviemore and then Inverness later that year.


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Old Photographs Railway Station Crianlarich Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Crianlarich, Scotland. Crianlarich station opened concurrently with the West Highland Railway in 1894, doubling the number of railway stations in the village. The routes to Fort William, Mallaig and Oban diverge after this station.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Patterton Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train locomotive in the railway station in Patterton, Scotland. The station was originally opened as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 1 May 1903. It closed on 1 January 1917 due to wartime economy, and reopened on 1 February 1919 as Patterton for Darnley Rifle Range. It was renamed back to Patterton by British Rail. It serves the Patterton, Crookfur and Greenlaw areas of the town of Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire and the Deaconsbank and Jennylind areas of the City of Glasgow.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Blackford Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Blackford located five miles from Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The Scottish Central Railway opened its line between Stirling and Perth, including a station at Blackford, in 1848. A station was also opened in 1851 for curling matches in the nearby loch at Carsebreck, this was used 25 times and eventually closed in 1935, the final match attracting some 2576 competitors.







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Old Photograph Railway Station Larbert Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Larbert located two and half miles from Falkirk, Scotland. The station was built by the Scottish Central Railway, opening on 1 March 1848. It is located on the main line from Glasgow Queen Street to Stirling and Perth near to the triangular junction with the line to Falkirk Grahamston and Edinburgh Waverley.




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Old Photograph Railway Station Port Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Port Glasgow, Scotland. Port Glasgow railway station is on the Inverclyde Line, serving the town of Port Glasgow. It is located in the town centre with the main entrance at the junction of Princes Street and John Wood Street. It is an interchange station for Inverclyde services to Wemyss Bay and Gourock.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Currie Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Currie located South West of the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. This station lies on the Shotts Line, which runs from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley by way of Shotts. Curriehill is a reopened station. The original Curriehill, called Currie, opened on 15 February 1848, and was closed by British Railways on 31 March 1951. The present station, which occupies the site of the old station) opened on 5 October 1987.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Kinbuck Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Kinbuck village located four miles North of Dunblane, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Stirling to Perth, Perthshire, portion of the Glasgow to Kinnaber Junction Strathmore line of the former Caledonian Railway was opened by the Scottish Central Railway on 22 May 1848. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 11 June 1956, the line itself remaining in use.



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